Essential reading for educators and librarians who are creating OER. Provides guidance on using copyrighted inserts such as images, quotes, media, poetry into a newly created OER.

Unless an insert is in the public domain, it will require a citation or attribution statement. The Open Attribution Builder is a tool out of Open Washington that helps to build attribution statements to use within OER.

From Creative Commons, this list of best practices includes examples, instructions, and links to other guides.

An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use.

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."

"Open content images are digital surrogates of works of art that are in the Getty's collections and in the public domain, for which [Getty] holds all rights, or for which we are not aware of any rights restrictions."

Use the Tools button to filter results by Usage Rights. Select Creative Commons licenses to see a list of openly licensed images.

Images that have been digitized by the Library of Congress. Not all are openly licensed, but click on the image and scroll to the field "Rights Restrictions" to check.

High-resolution stock images licensed for the public domain.

A common repository of millions of openly licensed images of art, architecture, portraits, maps, diagrams, etc.

Free stock images, icons, music, and GIFs.

Icons and photos for everything. An especially helpful resource for icons.

Some videos on YouTube are licensed with a Creative Commons license. To find those, do your search and then on the results page, use the filters button to narrow by Features > Creative Commons

A video sharing site similar to YouTube. Do your search and then use the filters to narrow by CC license type.

A list of resources to find music with creative commons licenses.