When you use material created by others, whether for teaching, publication or personal use (copying), you need to consider copyright. Creative Commons licensed resources are licensed for various types of re-use. These are usually free to use, sometimes with some restrictions such as crediting the creator (attribution).
These sites contain media which have been licensed under the CC0 licence or placed in the public domain. You may use these resources free of charge and with no restrictions. Some use custom licences rather than CC0 (see guidance)
Please use the tabbed resource guides below to find where you can locate public domain media for use in research and teaching.
The resources below contain media licensed under one of the other Creative Commons licences. This means they are subject to the terms and conditions of the licence (such as non-commercial use).
You may use these resources free of charge, with attribution (and sometimes other restrictions).
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Fonts can be a simple way to create a unique look for your posters, blog or PDFs. To preserve non-standard fonts, you may need to save your presentations, posters etc as PDFs.
You can use software to edit Creative Commons or open access resources or check if an image is under a CC licence using a reverse image search. Here are a few resources we think might help.
Open Access Helpdesk
openaccess@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Research Data helpline
researchdata@ox.ac.uk
ORA Team
ora@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Symplectic Elements team
symplectic@admin.ox.ac.uk