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Content which has a Creative Commons or Public Domain licence may be free to download, adapt, distribute, and transmit without having to ask permission.
You should always check the exact terms of the licence before using an image.
- About Creative Commons licencesOverview of the permissions and conditions relating to the six standard CC licences.
- Creative Commons searchWhile there is not a central place to search for these images, you can use this link to search across several sites.
- Pixabay: Free images and videos you can use anywhereAll images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.
- State Library of Victoria digital image poolAll images in this search pool are out of copyright or available to be used. Browse the popular searches or do a keyword search of your own. See how others have used them on social media by checking #remixvic.
- Cultural heritage imagesGalleries, libraries, archives and museums often have Creative Commons and/or public domain cultural heritage images.
- Using and editing imagesThe University of Wollongong has prepared a guide to help people understand the ethics of using and manipulating images.
- Finding the perfect image (Tseen Khoo)A great blog post from La Trobe's Research Education and Development team which captures why it is good practice to attribute images even when you do not technically need to do so.
- Art Institute of ChicagoAccess their Public Domain collections online.
- NASA Image and Video LibraryOver 140,000 images, sounds, and video publicly searchable online. The majority are copyright free although NASA should be acknowledged as the source.
- JamendoAccess Creative Commons music you can use in your stories.
- Free Music ArchiveThe Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.
- City of Melbourne open dataAccess local government open data from the City of Melbourne.
- Victorian government open data directoryAccess data on Victorian business, education, community, environment, planning and even more.
- Australian Data Archive (ADA)A national service for the collection and preservation of digital research data and to make these data available for secondary analysis by academic researchers and others. There are seven sub-archives: Social science, Historical, Indigenous, Longitudinal, Qualitative, International, Crime and Justice.
- Australian government open dataSearch for or browse Australian government open data.
- Research Data AustraliaA web portal for discovering data collections produced by, or relevant to, Australian researchers. Searches data from over one hundred Australian research organisations, government agencies, and cultural institutions.