Creator Resources

Other Helpful Resources

We’ve created this page to share resources we believe will be helpful for developer who are working on creating open resources.

The Open Press Style Guide is only available to developers we work with. Contact us at openpress@tru.ca for the password.

The guide can be found at Open Press Style Guide.

Flickr: Largest photo sharing site. Be sure to use advanced search and select for Creative Commons licensed images.
Google Advanced Image Search: Filter results by usage rights i.e. “free to use or share”
Creative Commons Search: Search a variety of media.
Wikimedia Commons: Freely usable media files (images, audio, video). Check the image summary for details on permitted use.
Pexels: Free images available with a CC0 (public domain – available to use freely for any legal purpose)
Pixabay: Free high-resolution stock photos with a CC0 (public domain) depicting a wide variety of subjects
Unsplash: Free high-resolution stock photos with a CC0 (public domain) depicting a wide variety of subjects.
Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary: Stock photo library that features images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. Aims to provide better representation of members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives. All images released under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
University of Kentucky Human Development Institute: Diverse collection of stock photos that highlight disability representation. All photos are CC0

Al Jazeera: Select video is available for free to be downloaded, shared, and remixed.
BCcampus Open Online Courses: Includes open course materials relevant to B.C. post-secondary course credits, with a focus on those with high enrolment and transferability in the B.C. post-secondary system.
Critical Commons: Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts.
Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive: Contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Khan Academy: Find videos or short lectures on math, biology, chemistry, physics, humanities, finance and history.
TED: TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
videolectures.net: An open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by scholars and scientists at events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.
Vimeo: Vimeo allows content creators to add a creative commons licence to their videos. These videos can be searched for using the advanced search filter.
YouTube Education: YouTube allows content creators to add a creative commons licence to their videos.

Coursera: An education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
edX: Offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from some of the world’s top universities, including MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, and UTx.
Khan Academy:Interactive exercises, videos, and assessments in math and sciences, primarily k-12 but useful as review tools for undergrads. Donor supported, not-for-profit.
Open Yale: Free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale.
MIT OpenCourseWare: Open web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.
Open Course Library: Collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs.