Biblioguides
Subject: MultidisciplinaryAudiovisual Open Resources for work and learning projects
In this monograph you will find banks of open access resources and tools (with Creative Commons licenses), or alternatively, a free version allowing non-profit use of images, sounds, photographs, multimedia, etc., which you may use in your work and learning projects. It offers as well tools for creating infographics and conceps maps, as an effective way to explain complex concepts or relationships, organize information and provide added value to content.

Where to locate resources that can be reused to illustrate our work?
In this monograph you will find banks of open access resources and tools (with Creative Commons licenses), or alternatively, a free version allowing non-profit use of images, sounds, photographs, multimedia, etc., which you may use in your work and learning projects.
Image banks
Collections of images from the Higher Institute of Teacher Training and Resources Network of the Ministry of Education. The use of images is universal, free and open, as long as it is a non-commercial educational use.
Offered by the Educational Telematic Network of Catalonia (XTEC), Ministry of Education of the Government of Catalonia, it contains icons grouped in the following categories: Access to Technical Assistance, Computer Access, Social Welfare Activities, Adjectives, Social Welfare Assistance, Assistance in Everyday Activities, Communication Assistance, Mobility Assistance, and Boccia.
Contains drawings in color, classified by themes or categories. Once the theme is chosen, a text list of included drawings appears. Scroll through the titles to choose images to be viewed, downloaded or saved.
Flickr is a publication service for photographs of Yahoo users. Not all photographs published by users can be used, only those with a Creative Commons license. Just use the advanced search with the filter "creative commons". On the website you will find explanations of the different types of licenses and what you can do with each photo. For more information on how to use Flickr and on licensing, consult the resource "FLICKR and copyrights".
Google Image Search allows you to perform an advanced search and filter images labeled for reuse (usage tools > Copyright and choose an option from the dropdown). Once you find the image you must determine exactly what type of license it has and select those that allow reuse.
Website where more than 2.5 million users share more than 400 thousand images. There are two types of images available: free (shown in the central part of the website) and pay (which appear with a watermark). Conditions of use are specified for each image, but most of them allow their use except in specific cases. You must register as a user to download the images for free.
Public archive of images in English. The only conditions of use for images found here is that you may not sell them, license them or claim ownership.
Audio banks (only sounds)
Platform for the exchange of sounds created by the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. It offers more than 40,000 sounds in WAV and MP3 formats under four Creative Commons licenses (depending on the license, sounds may be used in different ways): zero (A0), Attribution (by), attribution non-commercial (by-nc) and the additional license sampling plus. More information on licenses and conditions of use.
Catalog of audio music files with a Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA v1.0. It provides a selection of 20,000 songs, encompassing a wide variety of genres. The files are in Wav, Vbr, Mp3, AAc and ALAC formats, as well as open source FLAC, OGG or OPUS.
Conditions of use: expressly permits the use of audio content in podcasts, sharing, and use and remixing in non-commercial projects (such as YouTube videos or podcasts). http://magnatune.com/info/cc_licensed and http://magnatune.com/info/licensing.
he Library provides access to a portion of its audio collections through the Recorded Sound Reference Center's web page, the American Memory site (music, interviews...), the Performing Arts Encyclopedia and the American Folklife Center pages.
Banks of audiovisual resources
Ministry of Education initiative whose objective is to make available to the whole of the educational community a series of audiovisual resources that facilitate and stimulate the development of educational content. All files uploaded by collaborators are published under a Creative Commons license.
This is a media file repository which gives access to public domain, freely licensed educational media content to anyone in their own language. It contains images, sounds and video clips.
An internet library providing access to moving images, audio, movies, films and videos and also contains software and educational materials. It ranges from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. It is targeted for researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Extensive bank of sounds, images and video recordings of animals (in English). With the mission to collect and preserve recordings of the behavior of animal species and natural history, the Macaulay Library actively promotes the use of these resources for diverse purposes spanning scientific research, education, conservation, and the arts.
Mentors of this biblioguide
Maria Boixadera
Operative subgroup: Coordinator of Academic Publication Operative group: Library for Research