LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OERs): Find Open Images

Locating Open Images

Sites like Google Images provide access to millions of images posted online, but many are not licensed for reuse or remixing. If you need an image to illustrate your educational material, check out the following sites offering openly licensed stock images.

If you're unsure where a image originated online, use a reverse image search engine like TinyEye Reverse Image Search.

Disabled and Here
A disability-led stock image series featuring disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), published under Creative Commons attribution licensing.
Free Nature Stock
A collection of nature-related stock photographs licensed CC0.
nappy
A collection of stock photographs featuring Black and Brown people, all licensed CC0.
Pexels
A collection of free to use and modify stock photographs.
Stocksnap
A collection of stock images licensed CC0.
Unsplash
A collection of images, mostly photographs, available free to use.
WOC in Tech
A collection of photographs featuring women of color working in technology-related spaces, licensed CC-BY.

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Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Locating Open Images