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Images and Video: Image/Video Acquisition

Finding Images (and sometimes some other stuff)

AICTS: Art Images for College Teaching
A royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community
 
American Memory
Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' Americana collections.
 
ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
 
Creative Commons Searches
Search for pictures/videos which can be used for non-commercial use
 
Flickr
Selection of photographs, audio, graphics and text from the Associated Press
 
iStockphoto
iStockphoto is the internet’s original member-generated image and design community. Find your inspiration on the world's leading royalty-free stock destination.
 
Google Images Search
 
Wikimedia Commons
A database of 4,000,000+ freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

Finding Video Clips

Creative Commons Searches
Search for pictures/videos which can be used for non-commercial use
 
Google Video Search and YouTube
 
OhioLINK Digital Video Center
Includes 1,000 plus videos from Films for the Humanities and Social Sciences
 
TED: Ideas worth sharing
Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
 
YouTube Educational videos

More video search tools

Blinkx
 
ClipBlast
 
OVGuide
 
Pluggd
 
PureVideo
 
Pixsy
 
Trueveo
 

Tips for searching

Just because you find it doesn't mean that you have permission to use it!

Look for copyright ownership or conditions attached to use!