USEFUL LINKS

Barnacle Press 
Type: images 
Barnacle Press is a collection of vintage comic strips, all of which can be used for non-commercial activities under a Creative Commons licence.  

BBC Archives 
Type: audio, video 
Collections of documents, audio and video recordings from the BBC archives, which can be linked to but not downloaded. Topics include world history and politics. 

BBC/Open University Creative Archive 
Type: video 
This collection has downloadable video footage from Open University/BBC programmes. Available under the Creative Archive licence. 

BFI Screenonline 
Type: video 
A collection of video clips illustrating Britain’s TV and cinema history. 

Box of Broadcasts 
Type: video, audio 
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) allows all staff and students to record any broadcast programme from over 60 TV and radio channels. BoB permits users to record and catch-up on missed programmes on and off-campus and edit programmes into clips, create playlists. Includes all BBC TV and radio content dating from 2007 (800,000+ programmes). 

British Pathe film archive 
Type: video 
Free to use still and moving image files, for UK audience only. Over 3500 hours of British Pathe film footage, that covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896-1970. 

Creative Commons Search 
Type: audio, images, video 
A cross-site search enabling you to search a number of large database for material that can be legally re-used for free. Includes Google Images and Flickr. 

EU Screen 
Type: video 
Contains over 14,000 items of TV footage from 17 European countries and is available via the EUscreen online portal for teaching, research and general interest. EUscreen provides a route into Europe’s television heritage with content dating from the 1920s to the present day. 

Flickr Creative Commons 
Type: images 
Flickr images that have a Creative Commons licence. Visitors to the resource can search for items with different types of licence. Each licence type is clearly explained, so you can search only for images that you will be able to legally use to fit your particular use case. 

Flickr University of Westminster Archives 
Type: images 
Images and video from the University of Westminster Archive can be freely used by staff and students. If you are looking for a particular image relating to our history and can’t find what you need, please contact the Archive Team. www.westminster.ac.uk/archives 

FreeImages.com 
Type: images 
Find and download free stock photos – all free for personal and commercial use. 

Google Images 
Type: images 
Google now has a “licensing filter” for its image search, so you can search for images that you can freely use. Note, however, that you may still need to attribute the work – check the specific licence that applies in each case to find out whether this is necessary. 

Image*After 
Type: images 
Images in this collection are free for any personal, educational or commercial. Images can be modified in any way you see fit, and may be redistributed in both digital and printed form. 

Internet Archive 
Type: audio, video 
This wide-ranging archive of online resources has sections for moving images and audio. The bulk of the content is in the public domain and therefore able to be used in teaching. 

MorgueFile 
Type: images 
Images that can be downloaded and redistributed for personal and/or commercial purposes”. 

National Archives: Public information films 
Type: video 
An archive of streamed British public information films produced by the Central Office of Information (COI) covering the period 1945 to 2006. 

OpenStreetMap 
Type: images 
Maps can be used freely and adapted, as long as they are attributed properly, as explained on the copyright and licence page. 

Pics4Learning 
Type: images 
This is an image library for teachers and students. The images in the collection are all donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Permission is granted for use of the images in print, multimedia, and video productions, within an educational setting. 

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) 
Type: video 
A collection talks recorded at the annual TED conference, which brings together high-profile speakers. The videos are subject to a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reused. 

University of Westminster Archives 
Type: video 
Images and video from the University of Westminster Archive can be freely used by staff and students. If you are looking for a particular image relating to our history and can’t find what you need, please contact the Archive Team. www.westminster.ac.uk/archives 

VADS the online resource for visual arts 
Type: images 
VADS is an online resource for the visual arts. It has a considerable range of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK. 

VLC 
Type: video 
This is not a source of media resources, but a free video player, able to handle most video formats. 

Wellcome Images 
Type: Images 
Images in this collection are made available under a Creative Commons Licence. Mostly high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences. 

WikiMedia Commons 
Type: images, audio, video 
This is a repository of free multimedia content including photographs and multimedia files. Anyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files freely as long as the source and the authors are credited. 

Xpert Attribution Tool 
Type: images, audio, video 
This tool can be used to search Creative Commons licensed resources. It offers the advantage of automatically adding attribution and licence information text to any image or video being used.