Audio, Image & Video Resources

Audio, Image, and Video Resources
Samantha Harlow
School of Education, ITC
UNC Greensboro

This guide is intended to help faculty and students find
free-to-use media resources such as audio, images, and
video for use in online course design and multimedia
projects and assignments.

UNCG Resources:
UNCG Library, Distance
Education Services
http://library.uncg.edu/info/distance_education/
The library can provide instructional related
services to you to assist with your online
teaching or teaching at a distance.
UNCG Division of
Continued Learning (DCL)
http://dcl.uncg.edu/
DCL’s academic programs and faculty services
make it possible for students to connect to the
education they need at all stages of life. With
our expertise in educational technology, we help
students find, faculty enhance, and
administrators promote the very best online
courses the university has to offer.
UNCG SOE IT
http://intech.uncg.edu/
The mission of the SOE Instructional Technology
Office is to support faculty and staff effectively
integrate technology in teaching and learning.

UNCG Library Resources:
Streaming Music
http://uncg.libguides.com/c.php?g=83433&p=538
173
This libguide will help you find audio and video
recordings through library subscriptions at UNCG
and beyond.
Streaming Media
916
This guide links you out to many streaming
subscriptions through UNCG libraries.
Course Reserves
https://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/access_servic
es/reserves/
eReserves may be provided in Canvas. In
Canvas, you will create a eReserves module.
Canvas eReserves are stored in Box. There is
an online form to request reserves.

Ambrose Video
http://library.uncg.edu/dbs/moreinfo
.aspx?vdbID=841
Over 1200 streaming films available
for UNCG students, faculty or staff,
including subjects such as art,
economics, science, and more.
You can link and embed these
videos in Canvas.
Academic Video
Online
.aspx?vdbID=819
This database has over 5000
videos, on subjects such as
American History, Counseling and
Therapy, Dance, Ethnographic
Videos, and more. You can link
and embed these videos in
Canvas, as well as create clips.
Docuseek2
.aspx?vdbID=920
A streaming source of top
documentaries of feature films from
Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films,
Kartemquin Films, Collective Eye,
Terra Nova Films and Fanlight
Collection.
EVIA Digital Archive
Project
.aspx?vdbID=728
This archive acts as a repository
for unedited ethnographic video
recordings with ongoing growth of
collections as scholars works get
added from various stages of
completion.
Kanopy
http://uncg.kanopystreaming.com/
A leading distributor of online
educational videos, with subjects in
arts, business and training, health
sciences, media and
communication, natural sciences,
social sciences, and teacher
education.
PBS Films (Via NC
Live)
.aspx?vdbID=632
This collection is available through
our statewide NCLIVE consortium
and includes films from award
winning documentarian Ken Burns,
Scientific American Frontiers,
American Experience, Eyes on the
Prize, and Frontline.

Shoah Foundation Visual
History Archive
http://library.uncg.edu/dbs/moreinfo.aspx?vd
bID=773
The collection includes nearly 52,000 video
testimonies collected in 32 languages and
from 56 countries by the USC Shoah
Foundation Institute and has unlimited
synchronous viewing.
Swank Digital Campus
http://uncg.libguides.com/c.php?g=83433&p
=535424
Collection consists of over 17,000 popular
Hollywood type films from almost every
studio. This subscription is for
instructors only and viewable for
students through their Canvas courses.

Resources: Image, Audio, and Video
Creative Commons Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/
You can use this search tool to find various types of CC
licensed items from sources such as Google Images,
Jamendo, Flickr, and more. Please note that
search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but
rather offers a convenient access to search services
provided by other independent oganizations.
Wikipedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
A database of millions freely usable media files to which
anyone can contribute or download.
Penn State Media Commons
http://mediacommons.psu.edu/
A great resource for multimedia project creation, including
copyright guides, resource suggestions, rubric creation
suggestions, and multimedia project guides.

Evaluation
TinEye
http://www.tineye.com/
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It
finds out where an image came from, how it is
being used, if modified versions of the image
exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.
Whois.com
http://www.whois.com/
Discover who makes websites or a domain name
by searching this database.

Citation
Cite your images/audio/video when you are planning on using your
image in a scholarly work (print or web) and be sure to cite in the style
appropriate to that paper (APA, MLA, etc).
Attribute your image/audio/video for presentations, papers, and
more that do not require a specific publication style.
UNCG Libraries Citation Guide
http://uncg.libguides.com/citation

AudioFarm
http://audiofarm.org/
AudioFarm has a wide selection of genres to
choose from, uploaded by ordinary people who
want to share their music. You can easily
download any song you like by clicking the
download link - no registration needed.
Creative Commons, Various
BeatPick
http://www.beatpick.com/
On BeatPick, you have a music player kind of
interface where you can listen to any song on a
list. To download any song from the website,
you’ll have to register for an account. Most of
the clips are instrumental, with very little vocal
input.
Author defined license,
Various
Ccmixter
http://ccmixter.org/
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.

FMA (Free Music Archive)
http://freemusicarchive.org/
FMA stands for Free Music Archive which has a
wide selection of high-quality, legal audio
downloads. Creative Commons, Various
FreePD
http://freepd.com/
A musician scoured the Internet and put many
Public Domain songs on this one website.
Public Domain
Freesound
http://freesound.org/browse/
Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative
database of audio snippets, samples, recordings,
bleeps, all released under Creative Commons
licenses that allow their reuse.
Creative Commons
Attribution

iBeat
http://ibeat.org/
If you’re a DJ or anyone else looking for some
free beats and loops, iBeat has a wide database
of clips which are free under Creative Commons
licensing.
Incompetech
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
Incompetech hosts a wide variety of royalty free
music. You can browse their selection by genre
or feel. Various
Jamendo
https://www.jamendo.com/en/search
The world’s biggest free music library, which
offers free and unlimited listening and
downloads. Creative Commons, Various

JewelBeat
http://www.jewelbeat.com/free/free-background-
music.htm
On JewelBeat, you search through free
background music and sound effects with
keywords. These free background music clips
can be used for whatever video production you
are making.
Kompoz
http://www.kompoz.com/music/home
Kompoz is an online community that prides itself
on collaboration between artists from all over the
world. Artists post their clips on the website
where anyone can download it and use it for
their own productions. They can also add their
own instruments or creative mix to the original
clip and upload it on the website again.
Various
Moby Gratis Film Music
http://www.mobygratis.com/
This site is a resource for anyone in need of free
music for their independent, non-profit film,
video, or short. This site does require creating a
free account.
Author-defined license

Musopen
https://musopen.org/
Musopen is a website where you can find free
music from individual instruments. It caters to
the genre of quieter music like classical music or
jazz. You can also download sheet music.
Creative Commons, Public
Domain, Various
SoundCloud CC Search
https://soundcloud.com/search/sounds?q%5Bcc
_licensed%5D=true
SoundCloud is a social sound platform that gives
users access to the world’s largest community of
music and audio creators. This CC licensed
search will allow you to find uploads to use in
your projects.
Creative Commons
Attribution, Various
Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/musicstore?license=cc
You might recognize Vimeo as a place only for
videos, but it also offers free music which you
can use as long as you give credit to the original
artist. After clicking download, your download
will start and a pop-up window will appear with
the details of the clip’s title, artist and website.
Creative Commons
Attribution

American Memory: Library
of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Memory 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. It is a
digital record of American history and creativity.
Many images are copyrighted and can only
be used for fair use purposes.
Various
ARTstor
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ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than
one million images in the arts, architecture,
humanities, and social sciences with a suite of
software tools to view, present, and manage
images for research and teaching purposes.
Most of these images are copyrighted and
can only be used for fair use purposes. You
will need a UNCG email address to access
these images.
Various
Camio
http://camio.oclc.org/
OCLC’s Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is
a growing online collection documenting works of
art from around the world, representing the
collections of prominent museums. Rights are
listed in the metadata of each item. Many
images are copyrighted and can only be used
for fair use purposes.
Various

Creativity 103
http://creativity103.com/
An archive of over a thousand abstract
backgrounds you can use for free or just for
inspiration. Creative Commons
Attribution
Digital Public Library of
America
http://dp.la/
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
brings together the riches of America’s libraries,
archives, and museums, and makes them freely
available to the world.
Various
Flickr CC Search
https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
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 here.
Creative Commons
Attribution

Getty Images
http://www.gettyimages.com/
Find high resolution royalty-free images, editorial
stock photos, vector art, video footage clips and
stock music licensing at the richest image search
photo library. To find free images, restrict
search to royalty free. From there you will
have to embed the images into a web
resource or screenshot preview photograph.
Author defined license
Google CC Image Search
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/06/find-
creative-commons-images-in-google.html
Google Image Search added the option to
restrict the results to images that are licensed
using Creative Commons. The options aren’t yet
available in the interface, but you can use the
search box in the link to find images that are
licensed using some of the most popular
Creative Commons licenses.
Creative Commons
Attribution
Museum of New Zealand,
Te Papa Tongarewa
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
Collections Online has information on over
500,000 artworks, objects and specimens from
Te Papa’s collections, from dinosaur teeth to
contemporary art, as well as information on
people, places, topics, species, and research
from their curators.

The Noun Project
https://thenounproject.com/
The Noun Project includes thousands of glyph
icons from different artists. Some icons are free
and some are for a fee. Some images have
Creative Common licenses, while others are in
the Public Domain.
Creative Commons and
Public Domain
Perry-Castaneda Library
Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Map images which can be downloaded,
organized by region, type and theme Most are
public domain or licensed for non-commercial
use. The PCL Map Collection includes more
than 250,000 maps, 20% of which is online.
Pixabay
http://pixabay.com/en/
Finding free images of high quality is a tedious
task – due to copyright issues, attribution
requirements, or simply the lack of quality. This
inspired the creation of Pixabay – a repository for
stunning public domain pictures. Your source for
free vectors, free drawings and free photos. You
can use any Pixabay image without attribution in
digital and printed form, even for commercial
applications.
Public Domain
REALIA Project
http://www.realiaproject.org/index.html
The REALIA Project publishes faculty-reviewed
media for the teaching and study of modern
languages and cultures. Images from around
the world are available for non-commercial use.
Although the archive is for foreign language
instructors, materials can apply to cultural
studies and other social science issues.

BBC World Wide Learning
http://www.bbcworldwidelearning.com/
Search over 300,000 clips, including a
spectacular range of HD content spanning a
huge variety of subjects. Many clips are rights-
ready so available for preview, download and
purchase online. You will need to register
through the site and some clips cost money.
Blip TV
http://blip.tv/
Video uploaders are allowed to assign multiple
types of licenses to their content, including
various Creative Commons styles, and then
users can search on each type to make sure
they are only seeing what they need.
Bottled Video
http://bottledvideo.com/
Free stock footage that is ready to download and
use in broadcast quality formats.

Detonation Films
http://www.detonationfilms.com/Stock_Directory.
html
Looking for explosions, smoke streams or blood
splatters? Detonation Films has a host of video
clips of isolated bullet hits, fireballs, explosions,
muzzle flashes, and gun effects.
Internet Archives: A/V
Geeks
https://archive.org/details/avgeeks
A/V Geeks Film Archive is an ephemeral film
collection curated by Durham, North Carolina’s
Skip Elsheimer. His collection has grown to over
24,000 films gathered from school auctions, thrift
stores, closets, and dumpsters. The Archive
features old civil defense and public service films
shot by the government in the 40’s and 50’s.
Internet Archives: Moving
Images
https://archive.org/details/stock_footage
Since the mid 90’s, Archive.org has been a
digital repository for all sorts of digital media.
Archive.org has made available more than 2000
films from the Prelinger Archive on their site.
This collection is full of Americana and cultural
based films (home movies, commercials, B-
movies) from the last 100 years. Many of the
films in the archive are in the public domain,
but be sure to check the license before using.

Internet Archives: VJ Loops
https://archive.org/details/vj_loops
Short, stylized, loopable video clips, typically
used by VJ’s. Download from this archive or
submit your own works to contribute to this
growing community.
Movie Tools
http://www.movietools.info/
Movie Tools is a great resource for background
and graphic video elements. From technical to
fantasy, these backgrounds would be great for
use under titles, to use in a VJ set or in video
reports. Be sure to check out their large
selection of video loops as well.
NASA Media Archive
https://www.dvidshub.net/unit/NASA#.VT-
Vqq1VhBe
Defense Video and Imagery Destruction System
(DVIDS) is a state-of-the-art, 24/7 operation that
provides a timely, accurate and reliable
connection between the media around the world
and the military serving in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. Most of these
images are not copyrighted.
None

The News Market
http://www.thenewsmarket.com/gateway/gatewa
y.aspx?bhcp=1
The News Market features clips that are topical
and newsworthy, as well as many prepackaged
news pieces (VNRs). Great for use as B-Roll in
a journalism or documentary piece. You do have
to register with the website.
Open Video Project
http://www.open-video.org/
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. Most of these films are
not copyrighted.
Public Domain, Various
Public Domain Flicks
http://www.publicdomainflicks.com/
A site where you can legally download full-length
feature films that are in the public domain for
free. These films can be downloaded, modified
and remixed freely into your own projects.
Public Domain
TeacherTube
http://www.teachertube.com/
The number one safe educational video
community for teachers, students, and parents.

US National Park Service
B-Roll Video
http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/video/
This webpage provides links to public domain
videos of National Park Service sites, including
national parks, monuments, battlefields, historic
sites and related areas. You will need to credit
video to the National Park Service.
Vimeo Channel for Public
Domain Video
https://vimeo.com/channels/publicdomain
The idea of this channel is to create a completely
free library of HD footage that can be used by
anyone for anything. Public Domain
X Stock Video
http://www.xstockvideo.com/
X Stock offers high resolution clips. To avoid
having to sift through all of the clips, use the
search link. Author defined license

Penn State Media Commons
http://mediacommons.psu.edu/
Kay Tan’s 20 Websites to Download Creative
Commons Music for Free
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-common-music-download/
30 Places to Find Creative Commons Media
Materials
http://www.sitepoint.com/30-creative-commons-sources/
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