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- Using Zotero to Manage Your Reference Data
- Introduction to EndNote
- Introduction to Data Visualization
- Introduction to Data Visualization and Infographics
MS Office Applications
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Sources for Free Media and Other Useful Online Resources DMC Gallery : Take a look at how people use DMC resources Software Available for Rice Students For a complete list of the Owlnet software loads please see: |
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Sources for Free Media
- Creative Commons Search - search media that is licensed under Creative Commons. Creative Commons licenses allow that material to be shared and reused under terms that are flexible and legally sound. There are six CC licenses.
- Noun Project: A fantastic resources to find icons related to the concepts you need to visualize in your infographic design. Most of the icons are free for use under CC. (Credit example, for instance, Created by author first name, author last name from Noun Project).
- WikiMedia Commons - an online host site for Creative Commons images, sounds, and other media.
- Google Images , Settings -> Advanced Search, usage rights -> free to use or share.
- Richard Harrington's Blog - a list of free images websites.
- digCCmixter Music Discovery - Large library of CC music. Need to copy+paste credits for most.
- Jamendo - (Not free, licensing starts at $5)
Incompetech - large library of CC music. Only requirement is that you copy+paste the credits into your work!
- https://unsplash.com/ Beautiful, free photos. Gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers.
Penn State's Media Commons Free Media Library Sound effects resources from the School of Visual Arts in New York City
Images in the public domain for which there is no fee or licensing:
- Government photos: State and federal images are in public domain and are free to use. One way to locate them is through Flickr.
Flickr -> Search -> Licenses -> U.S. Government Works - Library of Congress: A great source of images. Many images are in the public domain.
- Publicdomainpictures.net
- The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com
- If the work was published in the U.S. before January 1, 1923, you are free to use it in the U.S. without permission
Available to the Rice Community via Artstor, a database that Fondren library subscribes to
- Artstor Digital Library: has subsets of thousands of images that are "free" and can be used for publication either under a license for "Images for Academic Publishing Program (IAP)" or Commons Zero (CC0) license.
Rice specific images
you can also use media from the following sites as long as you attribute to the original source. For instance, put “photos - courtesy of Rice University” in the credits of your video.
Examples of Successful Fair Use
How to Spot Fake Stock Photos (and Attribute the Right Person)
- Multimedia Literacy by University of Delaware Library
- Resources on Creating a Whiteboard Animation
- Creating Animations with Adobe Flash
- Screen Capture Software
- Media Release Forms
- media-release-presenter-Rice.pdf
- media-release-director-Rice.docx
- Sample media release forms from other organizations
- Software Installed on Rice Classroom Podium and Computer Lab PCs
- Adobe Creative Cloud 2018 is available on the computers at the Fondren first floor.
DMC Gallery : Click on DMC Gallery to see how people used DMC resources
Please watch our video tutorials on YouTube for how to properly use DMC equipment.
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