Open Educational Resources (OER):
Primary Sources

Most items in our Archives & Special Collections are available for personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that ownership is properly cited. Check the Rights section of each item after you search.

The Digital Public Library of America has aggregated primary source sets in numerous disciplines.

Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions. Rights are included on each item.

Find millions of digitized books, many of which are in the public domain.

LACLI is a repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies.

Provided by the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Materials (SALALM), this database includes open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Library of Congress has curated numerous collections of themed sets of images believed to be in the public domain.

The New York Public Library's public domain collections contain over 18,000 digitized works with no restrictions or permission required.

The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.