History of Psychology: Finding Online Resources

Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a system that allows content creators (artists, authors, musicians, etc.) to license their content so that it can be reused (with certain restrictions) without having to obtain explicit copyright permission from the owner.

Things to know:
 * There are a number of different types of licenses. If you use CC-licensed materials, make sure you abide by the license requirements.
 * The CC Web site contains an integrated search tool for finding CC-licensed work on the Web. This is a good place to start when trying to find topic-relevant content online.

Flickr
Flickr is an image-sharing site where users can upload and share photographs and images. It includes Creative Commons materials.

Things to know:
 * In addition to searching via the link above, you can also used Flickr's Advanced Search mechanism to only search CC-licensed material (the option is at the bottom of the search page).
 * Make sure you abide by the CC license requirements.
 * If you find an image you wish to use that isn't CC-licensed, you can always contact the owner and request permission.
 * You can link to images on Flickr from your UMW Blogs site or upload them to your site.
 * If you have your own Flickr account, you can use the built in Piknic editor to add text, crop, resize, and do basic image editing.

Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a site that is an online digital library that is building a huge archive of digitized content (both natively and non-natively digital). You can find archived Web sites, films/videos, texts, audio, and software. Everything in the Archive is available either through Creative Commons or in the public domain (this means that no one holds a copyright on the work).

Things to know:
 * Searching the Internet Archive can be a bit tricky. You may have to spend sometime getting to know how content is organized and trying different keywords in order to find relevant content.
 * Video and audio on the Internet Archive provides "embed" code. You can paste this (using the HTML editor) into your site's pages.

YouTube
You all know what YouTube is. :-) Surprisingly, YouTube contains quite a bit of scholarly and professional content. It's worth searching for your topic (try several keywords), before dismissing it out of hand.

Things to know:
 * Content on YouTube is vetted more and more to ensure copyright compliance, but be aware that there may be content on the site violates copyright. You can find out more about YouTube's copyright policies in their Copyright Center.
 * You can embed any YouTube video on your site by simply including the videos link in your page. To customize the size, player options, etc. you'll need to use YouTube's embed code.
 * If you find several videos that are relevant to your topic, you can set up a YouTube playlist which can then be embedded on your site. (You will need a YouTube account to do this)