Library: Finding and referencing images: Finding images and videos

General audio-visual resources

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Search, browse and stream 24,000+ films, documentaries, tv series and instructional videos from over 700 international suppliers, covering over 100 academic subject areas.

Box of Broadcasts National (BoB)
Record and access broadcasts from more than 65 TV and radio channels. Includes an option to create clips. Users can embed content in presentations and Moodle (using BoB links/codes). Note that BOB only permits access from within the UK.
Creative Commons Search
Searches across 16 websites for images and other media that you can use, modify and adapt under the Creative Commons license (CC-BY).
Pixabay
Free to use images (no accreditation required)
Wikimedia Commons
Click on an image to find out about terms of use and referencing requirements
Flickr
A community for sharing photographic images, with varying licences.
TED Talks
Short video talks. Topics covered include science, technology, design, business, culture and global issues
Unsplash
Free to use photographs published under a CC0 licence.

Example of a free photo from Unsplash

British Cartoon Archive
Over 9,000 images. Under copyright to the creators but the British Cartoon Society will facilitate researchers and mediate with copyright owners
British Museum
If you register with the British Museum, you can use images that are not covered by current copyright terms, and for a wide range of purposes e.g. images from artists that are either alive or have not yet been dead for a 70 or more years.
For more information, refer to terms of use
POLIS film/tv resources
These include BFI InView which provides access to non-fiction films illustrating British society.
Oral History
Includes an oral history collection, sound recordings and images of British life in the 20th century, covering social issues such as disability, ethnicity, families, health, immigration, politics and religion.
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Permissions: members of the University are allowed, for educational purposes, to save and incorporate sections in VLEs or print/e-course packs in a secure environment, with full acknowledgement of the source and copyright owner. For public display or performance of any part (e.g. conference or seminar), a public performance licence for the specific work(s) is required. License limits access to users in the UK.
Imperial War Museum collections
Photographs, films, videos and sound archives of 20th and 21st century war

Architecture & Civil Engineering
Audio-visual resources on the Architecture & Civil Engineering page
British Library Sounds
Sound recordings including public debates, radio, music recordings; art, design and architecture interviews.
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Note: the archive is temporarily unavailable due to the British Library cyber-attack. Visit the blog for updates: https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/
Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Spain
Over 4,000 images of architecture, spanning the 7th to 17th centuries
LearnChemE
Chemical Engineering screencasts from the University of Colorado Boulder
MIT Videos
Videos from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
Over 100,000 images and learning/teaching resources, in art, architecture, design and media. Authored and selected by subject specialists, and copyright-cleared for learning, teaching and research in the UK

American Chemical Society videos
ACS YouTube channel
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Contains text and image records on a wide range of topics in the life sciences
Cell Image Library
A public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms
JoVE Biology
Journal of Visualized Experiments. Peer-reviewed scientific video articles
NASA on the Commons
High quality images of significant historical interest scanned at high resolution in several sizes - collection intended for the media, publishers and the public. You must reference the copyright holder for any images you use in reports or assignments
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Includes the NIX Collection of citations, images, films and videos. Images are generally available for educational purposes but please check the copyright statement relating to each image
National Science Foundation multimedia gallery
Search for images, audio or video. Refine by discipline. Resources are OK to reuse with appropriate credit line
NSF Multimedia Gallery
Explore photos and videos from the National Science Foundation on a variety of scientific subjects
Periodic Table
Interactive periodic table from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Periodic videos
Periodic table with a short video for each element. A collaboration between journalist Brady Haran and chemists from the University of Nottingham
Resources for Health
A selection of health-specific audio-visual resources