Open Access and OER

Association of Research Libraries, 2012

"Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books. The collection is open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses."

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published

Open Access Publishing in European Networks: "Freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences."

Search engine for academic open access web resources.

CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. CORE provides access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many open access repositories.

Search publications and datasets from open access repositories and journals.

This service lets you search the contents of the repositories listed in OpenDOAR, an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories, for freely available academic research information. Full text is available for most results.

"OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources.... includes more than 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors."

Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

DPLA includes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.

Center for Media & Social Impact (2015)

Best practices document on the use of images in educational contexts. Provides six situations in which the visual resources community believes the use of images constitutes fair use. For each, suggestions are offered to strengthen educators' fair use claims.

From the Visual Resources Association, "The Digital Image Rights Computator is intended to assist the user in assessing the intellectual property status of a specific image documenting a work of art, a designed object, or a portion of the built environment. Understanding the presence or absence of rights in the various aspects of a given image will allow the user to make informed decisions regarding the intended educational uses of that image."

Use Flickr's advanced search to find photos and images which are available copyright free or through a Creative Commons license that allows for reuse.

Flickr provides access to works by professional and amateur photographers as well as several collections from major world museums as well as to those of lesser quality.

Usage rights can be specified in the search criteria, allowing results to be limited to a variety of open licenses.

Links to several governmental agencies which offer images, mostly in the public domain. Find photos and images by topic. Some of these photos and images are in the public domain and may be used and reproduced without permission or fee. However, some photos and images may be protected by license. We strongly recommend you thoroughly read the disclaimers on each site before use.

DPLA includes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.

Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Dedicated to making recordings of classical music available to the world because while the music is in the public domain, the recordings are not.. Everything is a CC0 (aka Public Domain).

Music in the public domain.

Public domain / Creative Commons recordings of music in the public domain, primarily classical music.

Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

"This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users."

Offers a wide selection of music curated by WFMU (a freeform radio station). Since it is curated, all of the music has been selected by someone familiar with the genre associated. Use the advanced search to filter by use.

"ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want."

Publishing platform for original music, most of which is released with Creative Commons licensing.

Free public domain audiobooks

Human-read audio books in a number of languages. The bibliographic record for each book includes its copyright status. If the work is copyrighted, you may still download the file but your ability to re-use the file is limited.

DPLA includes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.

Center for Media & Social Impact (2009)

Center for Media & Social Impact (2009)

This issue brief from the Library Copyright Alliance examines the permissibility of the streaming of entire films to a remote, non-classroom location.

Statement of principles from the University of California Los Angeles faculty on the use of streaming technologies for instruction.

The Internet Archive has the purpose of “offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.”Their collection of moving digital images is “free and open for everyone to use.” Among its collections are the Prelinger Archives of ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films, public domain feature films, open source movies, a video archive of Election 2004, Universal Newsreels, and many others.

DPLA includes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.

Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

List created by IMDB.com user olicool10 of "films that certain cited sources believe are in the public domain in the United States." An addition to the list is available at http://www.imdb.com/list/i7iwnmMTuLQ/.

The official YouTube channel of the U.S. Government, linking to videos across government. Most content produced by the government falls in the public domain.

The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. "The Open Video repository provides video clips from a variety of sources, especially various video programs obtained from U.S. government agencies such as the U.S. Records and Archives Administration and NASA. Although the government agency videos were produced with public funds and are freely available from the Archives, no copyright clearance has been obtained for audio or video elements in these productions. We encourage researchers to use the data under fair use for research purposes."