Where can I find images that are openly licensed?

Here are some places where you can find openly-licensed images; remember to check the licence for each image and provide the correct attribution if required.

Information about how to correctly add attributions can be found under the 'Including attributions' section of Find and use Open Educational Resources.

Contact us if you need any more help or information with this, or if you know of other sites we can add to this page.

• Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
• British Library on Flickr
• Cell Image Library
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Dry Icons
• Fancy Crave
• Flickr
• Foter
• Freepik
• Google Images - remember to select Tools > Usage rights, then filter by licence
• Gratisography
• Magdeleine
• Morguefile
• National Institute of General Medical Sciences Image and Video Gallery
• Openverse (formerly Creative Commons Search)
• Pexels
• Pixabay
• StockSnap.io
• The Public Domain Review
• TinEye
• Unsplash
• Vecteezy (includes PhotoPin)
• Visual Hunt
• Wellcome Images
• Wikimedia Commons
• WorldImages

Other

You may also want to search for, for example, open access journals which use an open licence, and consider looking for images used in those.