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Videos
For TED Talks, documentaries, news clips, movies, music videos, television commercials, YouTube clips, video interviews, clips from video games, etc.
- YouTube
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I would start here for videos, especially music videos, commercials, interviews. - Google Video
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Searches YouTube, Vimeo and some other free video sources all at once. Click Search Tools to choose the length of time of video you’re looking for, when posted, quality, whether close-captioned, or specific source. - Wikimedia Commons
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Search for free to use (sometimes with restrictions) media files: images, sounds and videos. - footage.net
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Search across hundreds of video sites: tv news, archival, etc. Site then sends you to the original site to view the video (or buy it). - Moving Image Archive
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Over 2 million videos from a variety of sources. - CNN.com
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All the television news channels have websites with video content. CNN's appears to go back to the early 2000s. - MTV Music Videos
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- Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new windowOn-demand streaming video service with over 10,000 titles, ranging from feature films, television shows, and documentaries. Note: Most of the titles available are not listed in the EWU Library Catalog. If it says "request access," we do not have licensing for that title. Faculty can request access for their classes.
- MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowAlong with magazine articles, offers photos and videos, maps, flags, primary source historical documents.
- Alexander Street Videos & Documents This link opens in a new windowStreaming video and documents collections: Academic Video Online, Counseling & Therapy in Video; Education in Video, and The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy.
Photographs/Stills
For documentary photos, stock images, gifs, advertisements, newspaper headlines/articles (images of them), posters, fliers, screenshots, magazine advertisements, social media “examples,” screenshots, memes, maps, comic strips, political/editorial cartoons, etc.
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowImages of art, architecture, photographs and videos from art museums from around the world. Keyword search or browse by collection, type, or geography. Create an individual account to download the images. Downloaded images can be used in the classroom and non-commercial educational use.
- Google Advanced Image Search
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Limit by type of image (photo, clip art, animated, etc.), file type (.gif, .jpg, etc.) and usage rights - Cagle Post: Cartoons & Commentary
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Browse for political cartoons by topic - GoComics.com
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Browse newspaper comic strips and editorial cartoons. But they don't have a search function for a comic on a particular topic.
Music/Audio
For music lyrics, audio clips of songs (to play in the background or as a specific representation of an element of your project), audio interviews, radio recordings, podcasts.
- Google
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A Google search of "name of song" artist may give you the lyrics listed in Google Play, along with the video of the song. - AZLyrics
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Annoying ads and rather bland looking, but the content is quite large. Keyword search by artist, album or song. - NPR: National Public Radio
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Search through 35 different radio programs, 13 of which are devoted to music. Offers audio version of the story, and usually a text version. - Transom: A Showcase and Workshop for New Public Radio
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Search through their audio content of diverse stories. "Transom channels new work, voices, and ideas into public media through the Internet and workshops. Our goal is to be useful and inspiring. Transom is a performance space, an open editorial session, an audition stage, a library, and a hangout. Our purpose is to pass the baton of mission and good practice in public media through tools, philosophy, and technique." (from website's description) - Directory of Websites for Free Music for Videos
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Rather than listing a bunch, this site describes 32 different sites, roughly how many songs, whether it's searchable, etc.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowOnline music streaming service, with a growing collection of over 130,000 albums. Primarily focuses on Western art music, and also includes jazz, popular, folk, and art music traditions from around the world. Updated with new recordings monthly. Access restricted to 6 users at a time. Try again later if you cannot access this resource.
- Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new windowOnline streaming service for jazz music, with a growing collection of over 9,000 albums from prominent recording labels. Browse by composer, performing artist, label, or genre. Updated with new recordings weekly. Access restricted to 2 users at a time. Try again later if you cannot access this resource.