Earlier this month, Open Culture pointed to a big move from the British Library: the library is putting a million images into the public domain. An image by Eliza F. Manning from “The Coming of Father ...

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Forget journeys into the stacks or stints at a library scanner: For more and more of the New York Public Library's collections, access is just a click away. On Wednesday, the library released more ...

More than 300 years of illustrations from the archives of the British Library have been uploaded to Flickr Commons, and now the organisation wants help sifting through them. "We're looking for new, ...

Oh, hello, my new favorite Internet rabbit hole. The New York Public library has digitized more than 187,000 images, all in the public domain—meaning they’re freely available for anyone to use. And ...

From publishers to bloggers, many organizations depend on the work of photographers to give further life to their content. But in the digital age, with the ease of finding reusing a photo, people must ...

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The New York Public Library has made 180,000 old-timey, out-of-copyright pictures available as high-res downloads through its Digital Collections website. "No permission required, no hoops to jump ...

A Charlie Parker alto sax. The original patent model for the Singer sewing machine. Around 75,000 specimens of bees. All of these live in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, the sprawling ...

The British Library is one of the greatest libraries in the world, with a collection than spans more than 170 million artifacts—the largest in the world. For the past two decades the British Library ...