Image Resources

There are a range of royalty-free resources available to the UoM staff both in the public domain and run by the university. This page collates these resources access type and provides information on accessing Copyright Friendly images

There are a range of royalty-free resources available to the University of Melbourne staff both in the public domain and run by the university.

Some Copyright Friendly image resources have been collated for use below.

Click the link below to read more on using Copyright Friendly images in your teaching

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University of Melbourne Image Services

  • University of Melbourne Image Bank

    The University of Melbourne Imagebank is available to all staff for University marketing promotions. University of Melbourne staff may access and download images with their staff log in details. Images are for use subject to the Terms and Conditions. For any queries, please email image-administration@unimelb.edu.au .

Free Image Websites

  • Pixabay

    Pixabay.com is an international, copyleft and free-to-use website for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, and film footage. As of November 2017, Pixabay offers over 1,188,454 free photos, illustrations, and vectors and videos.

  • Unsplash

    Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. The website claims over 110,000 contributing photographers and a growing library of over 810,000 photos.

  • Canva

    Canva's content library has tons of photos, illustrations, icons, etc., that you can use for free whether you're a standard user or a Canva Pro user.

  • Freeimages

    Browse over 300000 free stock photos and find the perfect royalty-free image quickly. Download free, high quality stock images, for every day or commercial use.

  • Wikimedia Commons

    Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sounds, other media, and JSON files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

  • Flickr

    Flickr is an image hosting service and video hosting service home to tens of billions of photos and 2 million groups

Using Google Images

There are a range of google images that can be utalised without copyright infringement. Below is a link to both the google directory and an outline of how to access copyright free google images.