Links by Subject
Creative Commons Items for Creations
Art and Music
- Creative Commons - A collaborative, global commons for sharing. This site gives access to over 30 millions items from 19 collections.
- Smithsonian Institute Open Access - Download, share, and reuse nearly 3 million 2D and 3D items from the Smithsonian collections.
- Wikimedia Commons - A collection of media files, free to use under Creative Commons licenses. Anyone may contribute.
- Google Advanced Image Search - Use the Advanced Image Search to filter searches by Usage Rights. Note: You must change the drop down box for Usage Rights to select the license type you are looking for.
Art and Music
- Getty Museum Virtual Library - View over 200 publications from the J. Paul Getty Museum about specific art pieces and art movements
- Google Art Project - Access an interactive gallery of high resolution images of artwork from around the world. Browse by museum, by artist or by artwork, compiled collections or artwork by medium or date.
- Met Museum eBooks - Hundreds of full text art history eBooks about the Met Museum art collection and the global art world
- Touch Van Gogh - This free Google Education App tells the story of Van Gough's work by allowing you to examine the painting style and technique, the color and even the artwork's damage.
English
Foreign Language
- Ethnologue - Contains information on over 7,000 known living languages
- Mango Languages - Interactive speaking, listening, reading and writing lessons in many different languages. Create a log in to keep track of your progress *Note: Mango Languages is a database provided by Beebe. Library card login for access.
Health and Wellness
- USDA SuperTracker - Personalized nutrition and physical activity plans, plus food comparison tool, trackers and recipes
- Nutrition Topics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
History and Social Studies
- Eagle Eye Citizen - Solve and create American history and civics challenges to explore Library of Congress primary sources. Games include putting primary sources in chronological order or matching primary sources to Amendments.
- American Memory Project - Photo archives from the Library of Congress organized into collections.
- Digital Commonwealth - Photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings and other materials made available by libraries, museums, archives and historical societies across Massachusetts
- History Pin - Explore interactive maps pinned with photos and descriptions spanning various time periods
- Leventhal Map Center at BPL - View historical maps digitized by the Boston Public Library; select "Collections" to browse
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Math
Science and Technology
- Sparticl - A collection of what the web has to offer in science, technology, engineering and math (or STEM) through answers to science questions, hands-on activities, images, videos and games
- The Why Files - Articles covering "the science behind the news," written by the University of Wisconsin