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Audiovisual Open Resources for work and learning projects

In this monograph you will find banks of open access resources and tools (with Creative Commons licenses), or alternatively, a free version allowing non-profit use of images, sounds, photographs, multimedia, etc., which you may use in your work and learning projects. It offers as well tools for creating infographics and conceps maps, as an effective way to explain complex concepts or relationships, organize information and provide added value to content.

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Where to locate resources that can be reused to illustrate our work?
How do we create resources to use in our work?

Where to locate resources that can be reused to illustrate our work?

Image banks

Magatzem d’icones catalanes, MIC link opens in a new window

Offered by the Educational Telematic Network of Catalonia (XTEC), Ministry of Education of the Government of Catalonia, it contains icons grouped in the following categories: Access to Technical Assistance, Computer Access, Social Welfare Activities, Adjectives, Social Welfare Assistance, Assistance in Everyday Activities, Communication Assistance, Mobility Assistance, and Boccia.

Open Clip Art Library Logo link opens in a new window

Contains drawings in color, classified by themes or categories. Once the theme is chosen, a text list of included drawings appears. Scroll through the titles to choose images to be viewed, downloaded or saved.

Stock.xchng link opens in a new window

Website where more than 2.5 million users share more than 400 thousand images. There are two types of images available: free (shown in the central part of the website) and pay (which appear with a watermark). Conditions of use are specified for each image, but most of them allow their use except in specific cases. You must register as a user to download the images for free.

Morgue File link opens in a new window

Public archive of images in English. The only conditions of use for images found here is that you may not sell them, license them or claim ownership.

Audio banks (only sounds)

The Freesound Project link opens in a new window

Platform for the exchange of sounds created by the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. It offers more than 40,000 sounds in WAV and MP3 formats under four Creative Commons licenses (depending on the license, sounds may be used in different ways): zero (A0), Attribution (by), attribution non-commercial (by-nc) and the additional license sampling plus. More information on licenses and conditions of use.

Magnatune link opens in a new window

Catalog of audio music files with a Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA v1.0. It provides a selection of 20,000 songs, encompassing a wide variety of genres. The files are in Wav, Vbr, Mp3, AAc and ALAC formats, as well as open source FLAC, OGG or OPUS.

Conditions of use: expressly permits the use of audio content in podcasts, sharing, and use and remixing in non-commercial projects (such as YouTube videos or podcasts). http://magnatune.com/info/cc_licensed and http://magnatune.com/info/licensing.

Library of Congress - Online Audio Collections link opens in a new window

he Library provides access to a portion of its audio collections through the Recorded Sound Reference Center's web page, the American Memory site (music, interviews...), the Performing Arts Encyclopedia and the American Folklife Center pages.

Banks of audiovisual resources

Macaulay Library link opens in a new window

Extensive bank of sounds, images and video recordings of animals (in English). With the mission to collect and preserve recordings of the behavior of animal species and natural history, the Macaulay Library actively promotes the use of these resources for diverse purposes spanning scientific research, education, conservation, and the arts.

How do we create resources to use in our work?

Here we recommend several resources to help you put your ideas in order and that you can use to display relations of concepts and visual representations in your coursework. The tools for creating infographics enable you to prepare a visual presentation of information (in the form of diagrams, bar graphs, comparative tables, organizational charts and maps).

Tools for creating infographics

Infographics are helpful resources for visualizing data in an orderly and creative manner. Visual communication is an effective way to explain complex concepts or relationships, organize information and provide added value to content. The tools for creating infographics enable you to prepare a visual presentation of information (in the form of diagrams, bar graphs, comparative tables, organizational charts and maps).

Infogr.am link opens in a new window

Tool for creating simple infographics and charts using real data (there are 31 graphic options to choose from: radial bar graphs, dispersion diagrams, scatter charts, bubble graphs, maps). You can also add your own images and videos.

Piktochart link opens in a new window

Offers the user a list of predefined templates to which you can add content and modify the structure in a flexible manner. It also has a catalog of icons and images categorized by subject area that allow you to personalize infographics and export to PNG and JPG. Note that with the free version, you get a small Piktochart watermark on the bottom of the PNG / JPG downloads.

Creately link opens in a new window

Tool for creating infographics from scratch. It provides predesigned templates for building infographics and is useful for creating Creately data flow diagrams, Venn diagrams, story boards, network diagrams, organizational charts, and site maps. Moreover, there are many available templates and professional color schemes.

Tools for creating concept / mind maps

Concept maps are semantic networks that enable us to graphically represent concepts and their interrelationships to reveal the knowledge structures that people have in their minds. Mind maps allow the user to edit a set of ideas hierarchically around a central concept.

MindMeister link opens in a new window

Online application with which you can create and share mind maps and also include links and documents. You must register in order to download the program. It has applications for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or any Android device.

Mind42 link opens in a new window

Aplicació col·laborativa en línia. Permet enllaçar llocs web externs, importar o exportar altres eines, afegir imatges des d’un URL i la possibilitat de fer zoom o arrossegar objectes. Consta com a programa addicional (plug-in) a Google Chrome.

Text2 Mind Map link opens in a new window

Free online tool for creating mind maps automatically while typing. Just type concepts in different levels of tabulation and the website itself will structure the information graphically.

Librarians responsible for this library guide

Maria Boixadera
Operative subgroup: Coordinator of Academic Publication Operative group: Office of the Deputy General Manager (Research and Innovation). Open Science

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