LibGuides: SGPS Thesis and Capstone Guide: 🎞 Finding Multimedia

Sites with Multiple Media Formats

Creative Commons
Search through thousands of creative commons licensed videos, music and audio files and images.
Internet Archive
Browse through millions of videos, audio files and images in a variety of genres and subjects.
Library of Congress
Search through thousands of historic and contemporary American videos, audio recordings and images.
YouTube
Search YouTube for video, music and occasionally other audio files. **FOR PERSONAL VIEWING ONLY. DO NOT SHARE/BROADCAST MEDIA FROM THIS SITE**
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.
UbuWeb
UbuWeb is an online library of thousands of video and sound clips from avant-garde artists in the realms of music, poetry, theater, film, painting, sculpture, and performance.

Documentary Storm
Collection of free full-length documentaries on the web. **FOR PERSONAL VIEWING ONLY. DO NOT SHARE/BROADCAST VIDEO FROM THIS SITE**

Encyclopedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new window
Online version of The Encyclopedia Britannica which includes multimedia resources, a selection of primary source documents, and research tools like a world atlas and country comparison module.
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The Open Video Project
A 'shared digital video collection', and has lecture, documentary, educational, and historical videos, as well as others, for free streaming.
PBS
Browse through their collection of news and educational videos.
TED Talks
Browse through these short clips of informative, inspiring and ingenious ideas

Audionautix
Search for tracks not only by genre, but also by mood and tempo. Features only music licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 unported license.
Free Music Archive
Search through thousands of Creative Commons music tracks by genre or curator.
Freesound
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.

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Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.
Musopen
Great resource if you are looking for a piece of classical music for your project or video. They provide recordings, as well as the sheet music.

Google Images
Use Google Images to search through millions of photographs, graphics and other images posted to the web. You can also use the "Search by image" function to look for similar images or websites about that image. **PLEASE CHECK COPYRIGHT STATUS OF IMAGE BEFORE USING IT. ALWAYS REMEMBER TO CITE/ATTRIBUTE WHEN USING AN IMAGE.**

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. For most publications, full text coverage is provided from the first issue to within two to five years of the current date.
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New York Public Library Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
Open ClipArt
Search through tens of thousands of pieces of openly available ClipArt images.
WorldImages
The WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project and contains approximately 100,000 images that are global in coverage and include all areas of visual imagery.