LibGuides: Schmidt Library: Multimedia

What are you searching for?

Images

Art Images

ARTstor This link opens in a new window Wide-ranging image database with over 2.5 million images rights-cleared for use in education and research. You are free to use them in classroom instruction & handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.

World Art Treasures From a slide collection of the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Historical Images

Library of Congress Digital Collections Collection of digitized papers, manuscripts, images, sound recordings, motion pictures, and more.
New York Public Library Digital Collections More than 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines, and newspapers as well as original photographs, print, and postcards, mostly created before 1923.

General Image Collections

Need stock images for your project? Try these creative commons and public domain image sites. These images are free to use with appropriate attribution/citation.

Creative Commons Image Search An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use. All Openverse content is under a Creative Commons license or is in the public domain.
Flickr: The Commons Copyright-free images from the Library of Congress, the Powerhouse Museum, and other collections
Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.

Video

Note: Search Schmidt Library Catalog to find DVDs.

Featured Collections

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window Preferred campus streaming service providing 66,000+ educational videos spanning a wide range of subject areas, including business, film, history, music, nursing, psychology, theater, and more.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Small number of educational videos with perpetual streaming rights + videos from the Web. Use Academic Video Online for a broad selection of educational streaming videos.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window Limited number of educational streaming videos selected by YCP faculty. Cost of one-year of access for each title: $150. Use Academic Video Online for a broad selection of educational videos across disciplines.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window Feature films selected by YCP faculty for specific classes.

Historical Video

Library of Congress National Screening Room Historic, digitized motion pictures from the Library of Congress (LC) collections. Includes fiction, non-fiction, and home movies covering 1890-1999. Most of the content is in the public domain. Movies that LC believes to be public domain are fully downloadable. Permissions were granted for the inclusion of copyrighted motion pictures, which are only available as streaming files. New content is being added every month.

Lectures

Netflix

Netflix Personal streaming vendors such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu do not grant rights for institutional or educational use. That means faculty may not show videos from these services in class. This is why the Library offers streaming videos through institutional subscription vendors like Academic Video Online. Netflix makes an exception for a small number of Original documentaries, which do grant permission for one-time educational screenings. Use this link to find out which titles are available for educational use. You must have a personal Netflix account in order to show these titles. Always double check the details page for each title before showing in the classroom to ensure that the Grant of Permission is still applicable.

Personal streaming vendors such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu do not grant rights for institutional or educational use. That means faculty may not show videos from these services in class. However, Netflix makes an exception for a small number of Original documentaries listed here, which do grant permission for one-time educational screenings. A personal Netflix account is still required.

Audio

Note: Search Schmidt Library Catalog to find CDs.

Music

Contemporary World Music Streaming audio of 200,000 recordings of world music from every continent; Includes reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, and jazz
Free Music Archive
Free Music Archive (FMA) offers free access to open licensed, original music by independent artists around the world. Tens of millions of online visitors roam the FMA catalogue each month to find and download original songs for personal use or featured tracks in media projects.
YouTube Audio Library A collection of royalty-free music tracks that you can use for multimedia projects.