Image Guides: Creative Commons Images

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Health Education Assets Library -

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching materials of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.

History of Medicine -

 The collection includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine dated from the 15th to 21st century.

Finding Creative Commons Images Sites - Please note that search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations.

Flickr - A social networking site where Creative Commons photos can easily be found. Here is an easy to read guide about using Flickr. 

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Smithsonian Institution Research Information System - A searchable treasure trove of photographs, videos, images, and more.

Photopin - Offers an easy way to search Creative Commons images and are easy to download.  Generates a code you can embed crediting the photo owner automatically!

Stock.xchng - Contains both paid and free images. On the free images, some people want a link back to their site, other images are just free.

Google Images - Another image search engine.  Use the Advanced search for finding copyright-free images. Harder to make the CC determination here.

Yahoo Images - Yahoo now owns Flickr but retains its own search engine for finding CC images.

Wikimedia Commons - Rather unorganized, but has offers unique CC materials, which are also used in Wikipedia.

Library of Congress - Holds a wealth of images and photos of historical significance.  Read this page for more information about using LOC prints and images.

The Commons - A gathering of the world's public photography archives, a cooperative effort between Flickr and the Library of Congress.

Slideshare -  A source for presentation slides done by others and then shared. Some presentations are from academia, the business world and students for assignments.  While the slides can't be copied directly, you can find images you like then locate them using their source information.

Luna Commons -  
The LUNA Commons provides free access to hundreds of thousands of images from reputable sources for educational and public use.