AIS-R LibGuides: Elementary School Library Resources: Finding and Using Images

Creative Commons and Royalty-Free Images

Creative Commons
Search for images and videos with a Creative Commons re-use license on multiple websites.
Open Clipart
Free, public domain clip art.
Pexels.com
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
Photos for Class
Search now to download properly attributed, Creative Commons photos for school!
Pixabay
Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.
Snappygoat.com
Over 13,000,000 free public domain images.
Unsplash
Over 1,000,000 free (do-whatever-you-want) high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.
Wikimedia Commons
Over 40 million freely usable media files. Attributions provided. This is a great source for finding historical images, as well.

How to make attributions next to an image

Creative Commons - Best practices for attribution
You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. Here are some good (and not so good) examples of attribution.

If you use images, such as photographs or clipart, in your presentation, you should also credit the source of the image. Do not reproduce images without permission. See the box "Finding Public Domain Images" in this guide to find sources for images that are "public use".

Use the acronym TASL to remember how to attribute images:

T - Title/Description

A - Author or creator

S - Source & date (Name of the website the image is from)

L - License or location (Creative Commons license or URL)

For example...

"Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt" by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is licensed under CC by 2.0

Title: Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
Author: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Source: Flickr (linked in title)
License: CC by 2.0

Find Ethical Images in Google Images

1. Do a Google search

2. Click "Images"

3. Click "Tools"

4. Click "Usage Rights"

5. Click "Labeled for reuse"

Now you can select an image and use it freely.

Royalty-Free Music

Bensound
Royalty-free music
Audio Jungle
Royalty free music and audio tracks from $1.
1,095,074 tracks and sounds from our community of musicians and sound engineers.

Reverse Image Search

Did you find an image but you're not sure where it came from? Do a reverse image search.

Tineye
Have an image but not sure where it's from? Try this reverse image search.

Elementary School Library Resources: Finding and Using Images

Using Images in a Presentation

Lightbulb by ColiN00B is licensed under Creative Commons CC0

Did you know that if you take an image from a Google search and use it in your school work, you might be stealing?

Creative Commons and Royalty-Free Images

How to make attributions next to an image

Find Ethical Images in Google Images

Royalty-Free Music

Reverse Image Search