Awesome Creative Commons Media – Massive Collection of Resources

Audio

• freesound – Collaborative database of sounds, mostly sound effects.

Graphics

• AllTheFreeStock – curated list of free stock images, graphics and videos.
• Altphotos – Handpicked free (CC0) high-resolution photos added daily.
• Compfight – Searches Flickr for images suitable for blogs, comps, inspiration and research.
• Creativity103 – Library of free abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas.
• Find A Photo – Search through thousands of free (CC0 licensed) stock photos.
• GameIcons – SVG icons for board and video games.
• Good Free Photos – Thousands of free public domain photos categorized by geographic location
• ImageBase – Collection of free photos.
• Morgue File – Photo collection with license to remix.
• Open Font Library
  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-SA – Open Fonts available under several open source licences
• Photo Pin – Milions of photos for bloggers and creatives.
• Photos8 – High quality stock photos.
• Pixabay – Photos, cliparts and artwork on CC0 licence. Requires login.
• The Noun Project – High quality icons and images. Requires login.
• Unsplash – Library of high-resolution images.
• WorldImages Kiosk – Library of 75,000 images that students can use in their academic projects.
• Wylio – Image search engine with focus on bloggers. Requires login.

Video

• Mixkit – A gallery of high-quality videos and animation

Open Data

• Geonames – The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

Open Journals

• DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
• PLOS – Open access research articles

Open courseware

• Candela Learning
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• OpenIntro
• OpenStax College
• P2PU – Peer to peer university – all under CC BY-SA 4.0 license
• Siyavula Open Textbooks
• Skills Commons – Open Career training resources

3d Printing

• Thingiverse – from MakerBot

Misc

• 500px’s Creative Commons Search
• Creative Commons’ Search
• Europeana – Explore 48,427,731 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe.
• Flickr’s Creative Commons Search
• Internet Archive
• Jurispedia – The shared law
• Soundcloud’s Creative Commons Search
• Vimeo’s Creative Commons Search
• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikipedia – All under CC BY-SA license
• XKCD