Public Research Resources

Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking.

Explore more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the The Met collection, all of which can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction. To identify these images, look for the Open Access icon, at the lower left of the image.

Search the many Flickr users who have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license.

Beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people. All photos posted on nappy are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
You do not need permission nor do you need to give photo cred when using these photos, however, it is strongly recommended. Use this format to give photo cred: Photo by @username from nappy.co (replace @username with the photographer’s username found on the photo page).

#WOCinTech photos are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-License. You may copy, distribute, and display the images as long as you attribute "#WOCinTech Chat" or "wocintechchat.com".

A stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. Per the terms of the Creative Commons license, you may not create derivative work from the images or use the images for commercial purposes.

This set of images features African-American women educators, activists, artists, and more.

Available via canva.com

Royalty free stock photography of positive lifestyle, containing authentic people with real disabilities.

Stock photos reflecting the diversity of today’s college students.

Beautiful, amusing, bizarre, meaningful, or otherwise excellent figures from PLOS papers.
All imagery is open access.

Public domain illustrations and other images, available via Flickr

Legally share your knowledge and creativity (images, video, etc.)