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Creative Commons Sources

The Library of Congress Resource

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The Library of Congress has always been a great research tool. Terms of use for the site are as follows.

The Library’s mission is “to engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity.” The United States’ Library of Congress has a vast digital collection that includes various formats of media. These formats include audio and video recordings, books/printed materials, film, video, legislation, manuscripts, maps, notated music, newspapers, personal narratives, photos, drawings, software, web archives, and 3D objects. The site also includes plenty of educational resources that can be used to engage students. These materials include classroom materials like lesson plans that utilize primary sources.

Creative Commons Sources, Public Domain Sources

The Prelinger Archives Resource

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The Prelinger Archives is another great resource for those in pursuit of the Digital Humanities.  The Prelinger Archives are situated within the Internet Archive. Their terms of service are as follows.

The site itself is dedicated to archiving films. These films from being educational, industrial, amateur and commercial. The mission of the archive is to “collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven’t been collected elsewhere.” The archive has a vast collection of digitized and videotaped files. The collection includes public domain material based on the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain license. Items in the archive are free for download and reuse.

Creative Commons Sources

NASA on The Commons Resource

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I am still currently searching for more sites that cater to public domain and creative commons materials. I have most recently stopped at the NASA Commons site on Flickr. The terms of and conditions of Flickr are available here. The purpose of this site is to give public access to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s collection of photographs, historic film, and video. Consequently, this enables NASA’s mission to “pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research” to flourish. The site was created in November 2009. It has a total of 251 million views and 26.3 K followers. Currently, 3,393 photos have been posted to NASA on The Commons.

 

Creative Commons Sources, Public Domain Sources

J Paul Getty Museum Resource

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I recently came across the J. Paul Getty Museum, as an online source for public domain materials. The site is available here. As per rule of thumb, I made sure to check their site’s rights statement.  The site provides access to the collections of the Getty Research Institute. The collections include digital images of photographs and oral histories. These are mostly related to art history. Getty also grants access to its virtual libraries for books , publications and research collections. The J. Paul Getty Museum also provides teaching resources such as lesson plans, curriculum resources and activities for students.