The best way to hook your audience is through the use of images on your site. Many competing sites are putting out similar content, but finding the best picture with some of the best websites for free ...

From publishers to bloggers, many organizations depend on the work of photographers to give further life to their content. But in the digital age, with the ease of finding reusing a photo, people must ...

The New York Public Library has made 180,000 old-timey, out-of-copyright pictures available as high-res downloads through its Digital Collections website. "No permission required, no hoops to jump ...

Earlier this month, Open Culture pointed to a big move from the British Library: the library is putting a million images into the public domain. An image by Eliza F. Manning from “The Coming of Father ...

Forget journeys into the stacks or stints at a library scanner: For more and more of the New York Public Library's collections, access is just a click away. On Wednesday, the library released more ...

The Library of Congress hosts a vast library of public domain images that can be used for anything you want, including commercial use. And they occasionally curate small collections from their ...

The world of free stock photos can be a difficult one to navigate. If you’re using a paid image repository like iStockphoto or Shutterstock, your rights and responsibilities are clear: You pay for the ...

This week, the New York Public Library (NYPL) announced the release of over 180,000 public domain images available in high resolution. In conjunction, NYPL Labs launched a data visualization by Brian ...

While it’s easy to forget just how many things are actually in the public domain, the New York Public Library is very much into making sure that its collection is as available as possible. Which is ...

More than 300 years of illustrations from the archives of the British Library have been uploaded to Flickr Commons, and now the organisation wants help sifting through them. "We're looking for new, ...

The British Library is one of the greatest libraries in the world, with a collection than spans more than 170 million artifacts—the largest in the world. For the past two decades the British Library ...