Open Everything: How to find free, reusable content online Rhode Island Library Association Conference 2016, “Color Outside the Lines” Andrée Rathemacher • Julia Lovett • Angel Ferria University of Rhode Island

Open Culture

General Resources: Sites, Portals & Guides

Digital Public Library of America — http://dp.la/ Aims to be a national digital library for the​ USA. Harvests metadata and content in all formats from other digital libraries and databases (HathiTrust, Internet Archive, state/consortium repositories, govt repositories etc. ­ full partner list here http://dp.la/partners) Does not yet allow searching/filtering by rights information. ​ ​

Europeana — http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ Europe’s portal t​o cultural collections: “Explore 52,219,831 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe.” Can filter search results by reuse rights.

Internet Archive — http://archive.org Founded in 1996. A “no​n­profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.” Searchable by Creative Commons license or Public Domain: See https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#1069 ​

Open Culture — http://www.openculture.com/ Founded in 2006. B​rings together free/open resources from around the web. Geared for a popular audience, with frequent blog posts and active social media presence.

OpenGLAM Open Collections — http://openglam.org/open­collections/ A searchable index of open cultural her​ itage collections with freely reusable content.

Shared Shelf Commons — http://www.sscommons.org Freely available images and oth​ er digital content from libraries, archives, and museums participating in Shared Shelf by Artstor. Copyright restrictions vary.

Creative Commons Search — https://search.creativecommons.org/ Search CC­licensed content from m​ultiple sites such as Flickr, Google, and YouTube.

Selected Online Museums List (guide from University of Colorado) — http://cuart.colorado.edu/resources/vrc/find/museums/ A list of museums with high quality online collections.

Public Domain Review — http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/ From the Open Knowledge Fou​ ndation, a curated collection of public domain works and essays on these works.

Google Cultural Institute — https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/home “Discover exhibits and collections​ from museums and archives all around the world.”

State Digital Resources (guide from LoC) — https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/statememory/ Library of Congress web guide to state and regional​ digital collections in the U.S.

Cultural Institutions

Library of Congress Digital Collections — https://www.loc.gov/library/libarch­digital.html ​

Library of Congress American Memory — https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html ​

Smithsonian Institution — http://collections.si.edu/search/ and ​ ​ http://www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/index.cfm

New York Public Library — http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ ​

National Archives — http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/exhibits­list.html ​

British Library on Flickr — https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ ​

British Museum Images — http://www.bmimages.com/index.asp ​

Getty Publications Virtual Library — http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/index.html ​

Getty Open Content Program — http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html ​

Los Angeles County Museum of Art — http://collections.lacma.org/ ​

Metropolitan Museum of Art — http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection ​

National Gallery of Art — https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html ​

Rijksmuseum — https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en ​

Yale University Art Gallery — http://artgallery.yale.edu/ ​

MoMA — http://www.moma.org/collection/ ​

Museum of New Zealand — http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ ​

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library — http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections ​

Victoria & Albert Museum — http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ ​

The Walters Art Museum — http://art.thewalters.org/ ​

Yale Center for British Art — http://britishart.yale.edu/ ​

The Morgan Library & Museum — http://www.themorgan.org/collection ​

Dallas Museum of Art — https://dma.org/collection ​

Folger Shakespeare Library — http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/FOLGERCM1~6~6 ​

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HathiTrust Digital Library — https://www.hathitrust.org/ A shared book repository of academ​ ic and research institutions; most of the content digitized by Google. View any public domain or CC­licensed book, or search copyrighted material. Partners may log in to download full books.

Project Gutenberg — https://www.gutenberg.org/ Over 50,000 free e­books​, downloadable in multiple formats including Kindle and epub. Mostly public domain but some in­copyright; see detailed Terms of Use https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use ​

Directory of Open Access Books — http://www.doabooks.org/ An initiative of the OAPEN Foundation. H​ arvests metadata and links to Open Access books from publisher sites. Books must have an OA license (such as Creative Commons) to be included.

OAPEN Library — http://www.oapen.org An initiative of the OAP​ EN Foundation. A central repository of open academic books primarily in the humanities and social sciences.

Open Library — https://openlibrary.org/ Aims to catalog eve​ry book published; also contains a variety of e­book lending options including accessible books for print­disabled patrons. A project of the Internet Archive.

Journal Articles

OpenDOAR — http://www.opendoar.org/ A searchable direc​ tory of open repositories and repository content. One of the SHERPA services.

Directory of Open Access Journals — http://www.opendoar.org/ The best place to look for information about ​high­quality Open Access journals. The DOAJ promotes OA best practices and sets high standards for inclusion. Sister project of OpenDOAR.

CORE (COnnecting REpositories) — https://core.ac.uk/ Harvests openly accessible content from rep​ ositories and OA journals worldwide.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) — https://www.base­search.net/ Harvests and indexes open scholarly content. Provide​ s access to “more than 90 million documents from more than 4,000 sources”.

Digital Commons Network — http://network.bepress.com/ Search across content from all Bepr​ ess Digital Commons repositories.

OpenAIRE — https://www.openaire.eu Provides open ac​ cess to European­funded research and data.

PubMed Central — http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ A “free archive of biome​ dical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).” PMC is the designated repository of articles published under the NIH Public Access Policy and policies of participating funding agencies (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/public­access/) ​ ​

OAIster — http://www.oclc.org/oaister.en.html ​

3 A union catalog of over 30 million Open Access resources. Started at the University of Michigan and now implemented by OCLC.

Open Educational Resources

Textbooks

Open Textbook Library — http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ From the Center for Open Educ​ation at the University of Minnesota, Open Textbook Library offers textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

OpenStax College Textbooks — https://openstaxcollege.org/books Based at Rice University, OpenStax C​ollege creates peer­reviewed open textbooks for common college courses, written by professional content developers. All textbook content is licensed under CC BY; the textbooks can be modified by users.

Open SUNY Textbooks — http://textbooks.opensuny.org/ “Open SUNY Textbooks is an op​ en access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This pilot initiative publishes high­quality, cost­effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer­reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.”

MIT OpenCourseWare Online Textbooks — http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online­textbooks/ ​

BCcampus OpenEd — https://open.bccampus.ca/ ​

Tidewater Community College open textbooks — https://courses.candelalearning.com/catalog/tidewater

Grand Valley State University open textbooks — http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/ ​

College Open Textbooks — http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ ​

American Institute of Mathematics Approved Textbooks — http://aimath.org/textbooks/approved­textbooks/

Collections & repositories

OER Commons — http://www.oercommons.org/ An online repository o​ f over 50,000 high­quality open educational resources for all subject areas and education levels. Can be searched and filtered by education standard, subject area, education level, material type, conditions of use, media format, etc.

MERLOT — http://www.merlot.org/ The MERLOT r​epository is a curated collection of metadata that describe open online teaching, learning, and faculty development materials that have been contributed to the repository by MERLOT members.

OpenStax CNX — http://cnx.org/ Maintained by Rice U​ niversity, OpenStax CNX includes “modules, which are like small ‘knowledge chunks,’ and collections, which are groups of modules structured into books or course notes.” All content may be freely used and reused.

4 Cool4Ed California Open Online Library for Education — http://www.cool4ed.org/ ​

Open Course Library (Washington State) — http://opencourselibrary.org/ ​

Internet Archive Open Educational Resources — https://archive.org/details/education ​

HippoCampus — https://www.hippocampus.org/ ​

Lessons & courses edX — https://www.edx.org/ Non­pro​fit organization that offers over 650 MOOCs (massive open online courses) at the university level in a wide range of disciplines. Many but not all courses are free. Participating institutions include Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Boston University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, the University of Michigan, Cornell, Dartmouth, and others. [Coursera, another MOOC provider, is similar to edX but is run on a for­profit basis. Udacity also offers free MOOCs as well as “nanodegrees” for a fee; most are technology­related.]

MIT OpenCourseWare — http://ocw.mit.edu/ Initiative by MIT that makes ed​ ucational materials from its courses freely available online under a CC BY­NC­SA license. The site includes audio and video lectures, online textbooks, lecture notes, assignments and exams, etc.

Khan Academy — https://www.khanacademy.org/ Short YouTube videos​ on topics including math, science & engineering, computing, arts & humanities, economics & finance, and test prep. Free to anyone around the world, the site also includes practice exercises and tools for educators.

Open Yale Courses — http://oyc.yale.edu/ ​

Open Learning Initiative (Carnegie Mellon University) — http://oli.cmu.edu/ ​

Academic Earth — http://academicearth.org/ ​

P2PU (Peer 2 Peer University) — https://www.p2pu.org/ ​

UMass Boston OpenCourseWare — http://ocw.umb.edu/ ​

More

University of New Hampshire Open Educational Resources Guide — http://libraryguides.unh.edu/oer LibGuide from UNH librarians Eleta Exline and Jennifer Carroll. Introduces OER​ and offers links to learn more. Also includes links to open textbooks, OER content/courses, OER by subject, and open media.

UMass Amherst Libraries Open Educational Resources — http://www.library.umass.edu/services/teaching­and­learning/oer/

Affordable Learning Solutions (California State University) — http://affordablelearningsolutions.org/ ​

UConn Libraries Open (and Alternative) Educational Resources — http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/oer

Michigan State University Open Educational Resources — http://fod.msu.edu/oir/open­educational­resources

5 Boston College University Libraries Affordable Course Resources — http://libguides.bc.edu/affordable/resources

Images

Flickr — https://www.flickr.com/ A site for p​ hotographic images, Flickr allows you to limit your search by license, including Creative Commons licenses. Search results will include photographs from the Flickr Commons, a collection of photographs from participating institutions for which no known copyright restrictions exist. To browse photos by license, start here: https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/. ​

Google Images — https://images.google.com/ Conduct a search and​ from the results page, click on “Search tools.” Under “Usage rights,” choose an option, e.g. “Labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification” or “Labeled for noncommercial reuse.”

Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/ Source for photographic and ​non­photographic images, most of which carries a Creative Commons license. License details appear underneath each image. See also the Wikimedia Commons list of sources of freely licensed and public domain images on the Web at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources/Photography. ​ ​

Photos for Class — http://www.photosforclass.com/ Searches Flickr for Cre​ative Commons­licensed photos that are safe for the classroom. Users may link to Flickr to download the jpeg file or download as png image from Photos for Class with proper citation included.

Wellcome Images — http://wellcomeimages.org/ Images from the Wellcom​ e Library collections, with a particular focus on medical history, contemporary healthcare, and science. Most images have a Creative Commons license.

Openclipart — https://openclipart.org/ Clip art images th​at may be downloaded in multiple formats. All images are dedicated to the public domain and may be used for any purpose without attribution.

U.S. government sites

USA.gov image search — https://search.usa.gov/search/images?affiliate=usagov Use USA.gov portal to search f​ or U.S. government photos and images, most of which are in the public domain.

NASA Image Galleries — http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html Photographs from the NASA o​ n topics related to space exploration. Most are in the public domain.

NOAA Photo Library — http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html Photographs from the Nation​ al Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Subjects include weather and storms; oceans and marine life; ships and boats; satellite imagery; animals; coastlines; and sunrises and sunsets. High­resolution jpegs may be downloaded. Most photos are in the public domain.

USDA Image Gallery — http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=23559 Photographs from the U.S. D​ epartment of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Information Staff on topics including animals, crops, food, insects, and plants. High­resolution jpegs may be downloaded. Most photos are in the public domain.

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American Experience — http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience Full episodes or clips from 'Th​ e American Experience' television series.

American Indian Film Gallery — http://aifg.arizona.edu Films documenting the “Native lifeways​ from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego”.

American Rhetoric — http://www.americanrhetoric.com/index.htm Real and fiction speeches. ​

Annenberg Media — http://www.learner.org Part of the Annenberg Fo​ undation dedicated to multimedia in teaching and learning. Title access changes, check expiration date.

The Atlantic ­ Video — http://www.theatlantic.com/video Video collection curated by ​ ‘The Atlantic’ magazine.

Biography — http://www.biography.com Full episodes an​d clips of content from the ‘Biography’ channel.

C­Span Video Library — http://www.c­span.org “The C­SPAN Archives record​ s, indexes, and archives all C­SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses.”

Documentary Heaven — http://documentaryheaven.com Collects and organizes docum​ entaries available on other sites.

Folkstreams.net — http://www.folkstreams.net Collects hard to find do​ cumentaries about American folk culture.

IEEE.TV — https://ieeetv.ieee.org Special­interes​ t programming about technology and engineering.

Internet Archive — https://archive.org/details/movies Free to use classic full­l​ength films, cartoons, concerts and the Prelinger Archive.

MIT Video — http://video.mit.edu Developed and m​ aintained by the MIT News Office. Aggregates and curates video produced by the Institute.

Movieclips.com — http://www.movieclips.com Short clips from featur​ e films. Searchable by director, actor, theme, mood, prop, location, occasion and other categories.

National Film Board of Canada — https://www.nfb.ca Documentaries, animations, experimenta​ l films, fiction and interactive works.

National Park Service B­Roll Archive — https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/news/index.htm Video from the National Park Service. ​

Open Images — http://openbeelden.nl Open media platfor​ m intended to “stimulate creative reuse”.

Open Vault — http://openvault.wgbh.org Access to “unique​ and historically important content produced by WGBH”.

7 Open Video Project — https://open­video.org “A shared digital video coll​ ection.”

PBS Video — http://www.pbs.org/video Access to some o​ f the media produced by PBS (Masterpiece, NewsHour, NOVA, FrontLine, etc.)

PSA Library — http://www.psalibrary.com National and state​ produced PSAs.

SnagFilms — http://www.snagfilms.com Feature films an​ d documentaries.

Stanford Health Video Library — http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/videolibrary/index.html Features “prominent doctors presenting​ the latest in health research.

TED Talks — http://www.ted.com/talks "Great talks to s​pur your curiosity."

Top Documentary Films — http://topdocumentaryfilms.com Clips and full documentaries on a​ variety of topics.

Web of Stories — http://www.webofstories.com Archive of life stories​.

Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org Provides access to Creative Co​ mmons freely usable media files.

Sound Recordings

Many video sites also have audio collections. The sites listed below primarily provide access to sound recordings. ccMixer — http://ccmixter.org Features rem​ ixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

CPDL — http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Choral scor​ es and sound recordings.

Creative Commons on SoundCloud — https://soundcloud.com/groups/creative­commons Shared Creative Commons licensed tracks. ​

Digital History — http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/music/music.cfm Historical music that ​ is copyright free.

Free Music Archive — http://freemusicarchive.org Public domain and Creativ​ e Commons licensed music.

Freesound.org — https://www.freesound.org “Collaborative datab​ase of creative­commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers.”

IMSLP — http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page Primarily sh​ eet music but does offer some recordings.

8 Jamendo — https://www.jamendo.com/?language=en Streaming mus​ ic from independent artists.

LibriVox — https://librivox.org Public domain​ audiobooks.

MusOpen — https://musopen.org Provides access​ to music in the public domain.

Project Gutenberg — https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Primarily print, does pro​vide some music and audiobook files.

WavCentral — http://wavcentral.com Searchable databa​ se of sound clips from movie and TV.

Wikipedia Sound List — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sound/list Musical works available on W​ ikipedia or Wikimedia Commons.

Software

Note: AlternativeTo.net is useful resource for finding free or Open Source software. Searches can be ​ ​ narrowed by platform and license.

Blender — https://www.blender.org 3D graphics a​ nd rendering software.

Cura — https://ultimaker.com/en/products/cura­software Easy to us​ e slicing software.

Gimp — https://www.gimp.org/downloads Bitmap gr​aphic software.

GitHub — https://github.com Public Open ​Source code.

Inkscape — https://inkscape.org/en Vector graphic​ software.

Meshlab — http://meshlab.sourceforge.net 3D meshing so​ ftware.

Repetier Host — https://www.repetier.com/downloads Advanced slicing sof​ tware.

SketchUp— http://www.sketchup.com 3D modeling so​ ftware.

SourceForge ­ https://sourceforge.net/ Open Source dire​ctory of software.

Xiph.org — http://xiph.org Provides acces​ s to Open Source audio and visual project software.

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3D Files

Bld3r — http://www.bld3r.com “A 3D prin​ ting social network.”

BodyParts3D/Anatomography — http://lifesciencedb.jp/bp3d/?lng=en Database of 3D body parts. ​

Repables — http://repables.com 3D printing re​pository.

SketchUp — http://www.sketchup.com 3D model datab​ ase.

Thingiverse — https://www.thingiverse.com 3D printing repos​ itory.

Yeggi — http://www.yeggi.com 3D printin​ g repository.

YouMagine — https://www.youmagine.com 3D printing repos​ itory.

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