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Wikimedia Commons
If you explore the Wikimedia Commons, you will find that some of the major categories include: Science, Society, Nature, Video, Sound, and Images. An especially good resource is the Quality Images archive—narrow your search by browsing quality images by subject matter. There is alose a more extensive list of categories for images and pictures.
Remember, although the policy of Wikimedia Commons is that all of the materials in the COmmons are to be released under a free license, you should still double check the license and comply with its terms of use. You can read more about the Wikimedia license policy on the "Reusing content outside of Wikimedia" page.
Open Clip Art Library
The Open Clip Art Library contains over 15,000 public domain clip art images almost all of which are available in both PNG and Vector Graphic formats. You can search through various categories or you can browse through the category tags.
Photos 8
Photos 8 contains thousands of high-quality, well categorized public domain photographs. Since, one of the intended goals of the project is to create background, or desktop images for computer monitors, most of the images are artistic in nature.
Texts (includes images)
Open Library
Recently, the Open Library began a new "scan on demand" program in which you can request that a book in the public domain be scanned by a participating library. There is no charge for the service and books are delivered to you electronically within 3 to 5 business days after requestion them. If you wish to learn more about the Open Library, consider taking a guided tour of the web site.
