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  • Images, Films, & Audio Resources

  • Most of the images and films in the collections subscribed to by the Library are cleared for educational use. In a nutshell, this means they can be used for teaching and for academic assignments.

    Before using images or films that you find on the web, make sure that you have permission to re-use them. Many "free" images are not licensed for reuse. Look for Creative Commons licenses or public domain works.

    If you have questions about re-using images or other media files, contact the Library for assistance.

    As with any resource you use, always give credit for and/or cite your audio and visual sources!

  • Library Collections

  • Films

  • Films on Demand
    Films On Demand allows you to view streaming videos anytime, anywhere, 24/7! Thousands of high-quality streaming videos are available. Special features built into the Films Demand platform allow you to organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, and store quick links to favorite videos.

    Intelecom Online
    Streaming videos on a range of academic topics, including Biological Sciences, Oceanography, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, Health, and Environmental Studies. New content is added on an ongoing basis.

  • Images

  • ARTstor
    ARTstor is a non-profit online digital image library designed to serve educational and scholarly communities with more than one million images on subjects in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. ARTstor provides tools and software to search, present, and share digital images both online and offline for research and pedagogical purposes.

    CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
    A growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times and covers the complete range of expressive forms. CAMIO is licensed for educational, non-profit, attributed use by students, faculty, and researchers at subscribing institutions.

    Image Quest
    Access more than one million rights-cleared images from over 40 of the best collections in the world.

    Oregon Topographic Maps
    The Library provides access to Oregon topographic map software (Terrain Navigator) on campus computers.Visit your nearest COCC Computer Lab to access this software program. Click on the link to find instructions and more information about topo maps for other states and topo maps on paper.

  • Audio

  • Naxos Music Library
    Naxos Music Library is THE resource for serious music students and researchers. You can listen to a variety of music from over 400 independent labels and more than a dozen genres, including Classical, Jazz, World, Pop and Rock, and more. And, it's not just the music; Naxos includes music notes, album cover artwork, tracklists, composer and artist biographies, and an extensive glossary of musical terms.


  • Free Web Collections

  • Films

  • Ethnographic Video for Instruction & Analysis (EVIA) Digital Archive
    The EVIA Digital Archive Project is a joint effort of Indiana University and the University of Michigan to establish a digital archive of ethnographic video. Media in the EVIA Project has been selected for inclusion by an editorial committee, and annotations have gone through a scholarly review process. The Archive is designed to be a long-term preservation repository for unedited ethnographic video recordings as well as a unique kind of peer-reviewed scholarly publication. In each collection, scholars have worked extensively with their own recordings to describe and analyze what they have documented. The growth of the content is ongoing, with collections in various stages of completion.

    TED
    TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) offers videos of talks about big ideas from well-known people and experts in a variety of fields. Talks are 18 minutes or less in length.

  • Images

  • ArtsConnectEd
    ArtsConnectEd is an interactive website that provides access to works of art and educational resources from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center. Art Finder, ArtsConnectEd’s searchable environment, is where users can browse the museums’ digitized items including Works of Art, Texts, Audio and Video, and Interactive Resources.

    Flickr Creative Commons
    The popular photo-sharing site Flickr has many Creative Commons-licensed photos that you can use for non-commercial purposes (like school projects), as long as you credit the photographer.

    Google Art Project
    The Google Art Project uses Google's Street View mapping technology to take you inside some of the world's best art museums. You can view the artworks in high resolution and read information about the artist and artwork.

    New York Public Library Digital Gallery
    The New York Public Library 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.

    Wikimedia Commons
    A sister project of the popular Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons has millions of images, diagrams, animations, audio files, and video files that you can use. The media files in Wikimedia Commons are either open source or protected by a Creative Commons license, which means that they can be used for non-commercial purposes as long as credit is given to the creator of the file.

    WorldImages
    This website from California State University's IMAGE project provides access to over 80,000 global images. Licensed for educational use with proper attribution.

  • Audio

  • LibriVox
    Free audiobook versions of books that are in the public domain.