A Short Course in Copyright for NWACC Faculty
Need-to-Know & Best Practices
Open Access
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
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Find more than 35 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Limit to “Free Full Text” to find open access articles. Some results will be paywalled - contact the library about interlibrary loan.
- PLOS ONESearch this peer-reviewed open access interdisciplinary journal.
Sources for Royalty-free Images
- PixabayHuge variety of public domain images. Warning: the first row of images in any search are sponsored results from Shutterstock and are not in the public domain.
- The Morgue File"Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!"
- Openverse - Creative Commons SearchSearch for images, video, sounds, and more with Creative Commons licenses. Use as permitted under license conditions.
- Library of Congress CollectionProduced by the Library of Congress and mostly free. Be sure to check the copyright statement before using.
- Archival Research CatalogNational Archives Database of various governmental and historical images, videos, sound bites. Be sure to check each resource's copyright statement.
- EveryStockPhotoRoyalty-free image aggregator; pulls from a number of sources, including stock xchng and Flickr.
- The CommonsRoyalty free images brought to you by Flickr
- Free ImagesThe only drawback is you have to join this site first.
- Google LIFE Photo ArchiveImages with copyright restrictions will have a note on the actual image.
Royalty-free Sounds
- FREE Sound EffectsA listing of sound effects for video productions.
- FindSounds"A free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples."
- Freeplay MusicFree music and sound effects.
- Free Sound Effects"You may use the sound effects on this web site free of charge in your video, film, audio and multimedia productions..."
- IncompetechRoyalty-free music.
- Sound Effects LibrariesFree sound effects and also links to licensed providers.
Public Domain Texts
- Openverse - Creative Commons SearchSearch for images, video, sounds, and more with Creative Commons licenses. Use as permitted under license conditions.
- HathiTrustLimit search to public domain by selecting "full view only" or year of publication.
- Standard EbooksBrowse open source, public domain books.
- ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
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Contains public domain literary works. Provide a link in Canvas to any of the content. - Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new windowFind full-text ebooks of literary classics. Link to all content from Canvas.
Sheet Music & Scores
- Historic American Sheet MusicDuke University's repository of sheet music published fin the US from 1850 - 1920.
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music (1870-1885)From the Library of Congress, published from 1870-1885.