Course Production

Public Domain Materials

Please check the copyright information on the sites listed below, as their conditions for use may change over time. General explanations of copyright, Fair Use and the TEACH Act are available on DCE's Copyright in Distance Education page.

• Creative Commons - http://www.creativecommons.org
  Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that helps people dedicate their creative works to the public domain -- or retain their copyright while licensing them as free for certain uses, on certain conditions. Their search engine helps find, for example, photographs that are free to use provided that the original photographer is credited, or songs that may be copied, distributed, or sampled with no restrictions whatsoever.

• MERLOT's MultiMedia Resources - http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
  Free and open resource for online learning materials, includes annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.

• US Government Agency Resources
  

  Department of Health and Human Services Center for Disease Control - Public Health Image Library National Institute of Mental Health - Patient Education Materials Department of the Interior (DOI) DOI - Photo Library Resources DOI - Maps Fish and Wildlife Service - Pictures/Images National Park Service- Digital Image Archives U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Photo Library Maps Library of Congress National Digital Library

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astronaut Photography of Earth JSC Digital Image Collection Kennedy Space Center Multimedia Gallery NASA Image eXchange (NIX) NASA Multimedia Gallery National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Research Room National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Library

• Project Gutenberg - http://gutenberg.net/index.html
  Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest provider of free electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). Books are entered into the system after their copyright expires.

• University and College Lists of Public Domain Resources
  

  • Kansas State University
  • University of Minnesota Duluth
  • University of North Carolina - ibiblio.org

  For additions or corrections to this page, please email distance@dce.ufl.edu.