List of useful resources for images compiled by Tony Phipps on GitHub called Neutraltone Awesome Stock Resources
Subscription databases
The University subscribes to a number of databases from image providers which allow you to view, save and download both images and video. These are only available to staff and students at the University and are all copyright cleared for you to use in your academic work. See section Using subscription databases in the guide Finding Images and Video
Flickr Creative Commons
Many images on sites such as Flickr are uploaded under a Creative Commons licence that allows users to use, reproduce and/or adapt the material. It is always important to check the terms of the licence before using these images: there are different levels of usage permitted, and some licences require that you make any resources you have created using these images freely available under Creative Commons.
Free image sources
Pixabay (images are free to re-use and attribution is not required)
Unsplash (images are free to re-use and attribution is not required though is appreciated)
Johns Hopkins Guide to Finding Images - Health sciences, medicine, anatomy, etc.
Disabled and Here - this website contains stock images celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of colour; they are free to re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY).
Please check and abide by any regulations of use. Normally images must be attributed unless the creator has waived their copyrights.
We have an extensive guide called Finding Images and Video that has lots of useful resources to help you find images and audiovisual content.
All the webpages linked below contain images that are in the public domain or have been licensed for free use.