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The J. Paul Getty Trust launched its Open Content Program which saw the release of 4,600 high-resolution scans of works from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles as open content. This means that the digital images in this new release can be downloaded and re-used without restriction and without the need to get permission.
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Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks in the public domain. Search for images from these texts at the link above.
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MERLOT = Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching; peer reviewed open and online resources for faculty, staff and students in higher education.
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Specific to Health Sciences is the database of images from Patrick Lynch from Yale University which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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If you are looking for images specific to Health Sciences the Gray’s Anatomy database of images in Wikimedia is a fantastic place to start. All of these images are now available in the public domain.
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