CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. Creative Commons, the nonprofit behind CC Search, is the maker of the CC licenses, used over 1.4 billion times to help creators share knowledge and creativity online.
CC Search searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. It goes beyond simple search to aggregate results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.
Currently CC Search only searches images, but we plan to add additional media types such as open texts and audio, with the ultimate goal of providing access to all 1.4 billion CC licensed and public domain works on the web. Learn more about CC’s 2019 vision, strategy and roadmap for CC Search and see what we’re currently working on. All of our code is open source (CC Search, CC Catalog API, CC Catalog) and we welcome community contribution
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Sources
| Source | Domain | # CC Licensed Works |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Diversity Web | https://animaldiversity.org | 15,554 |
| Biodiversity Heritage Library | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ | 228,289 |
| Brooklyn Museum | https://www.brooklynmuseum.org | 63,221 |
| Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon | http://capl.washjeff.edu | 15,143 |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | http://www.clevelandart.org | 34,283 |
| DeviantArt | https://www.deviantart.com | 239,000 |
| Digitalt Museum | https://digitaltmuseum.no | 289,769 |
| Europeana | https://www.europeana.eu | 7,729,617 |
| Flickr | https://www.flickr.com | 466,541,100 |
| Flora-On | https://flora-on.pt | 55,010 |
| Geograph Britain and Ireland | https://www.geograph.org.uk | 1,090,120 |
| McCord Museum | http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en | 110,075 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | https://www.metmuseum.org | 182,000 |
| Museums Victoria | https://museumsvictoria.com.au | 143,842 |
| NASA | https://www.nasa.gov/ | 115,006 |
| New York Public Library | https://www.nypl.org | 1,269 |
| PhyloPic | http://phylopic.org | 3,855 |
| Rawpixel | https://www.rawpixel.com | 25,199 |
| Rijksmuseum | https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en | 29,999 |
| Science Museum – UK | https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk | 63,218 |
| Sketchfab | https://sketchfab.com | 37,900 |
| Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of African American History and Culture | https://nmaahc.si.edu | 7,477 |
| Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of African Art | https://africa.si.edu/ | 135 |
| Smithsonian Institution: National Air and Space Museum | https://airandspace.si.edu | 4,741 |
| Smithsonian Institution: Smithsonian American Art Museum | https://americanart.si.edu/ | 11,877 |
| Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of American History | https://americanhistory.si.edu/ | 2,492 |
| Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian | https://americanindian.si.edu/ | 246 |
| Smithsonian Institution: Anacostia Community Museum | https://anacostia.si.edu/ | 571 |
| Smithsonian Institution: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | https://www.cooperhewitt.org | 65,396 |
| Smithsonian Institution: Freer Gallery of Art | https://asia.si.edu/ | 3,876 |
| Smithsonian Institution: Smithsonian Gardens | https://gardens.si.edu/ | 689 |
| Smithsonian Institution: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | https://hirshhorn.si.edu/ | 423 |
| Smithsonian Institution Archives | https://siarchives.si.edu/ | 4,971 |
| Smithsonian Institution: Smithsonian Libraries | https://library.si.edu/ | 55 |
| Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History | https://naturalhistory.si.edu/ | 2,790,144 |
| Smithsonian Institution: National Portrait Gallery | https://npg.si.edu/ | 11,549 |
| Smithsonian Institution: National Postal Museum | http://postalmuseum.si.edu/ | 2,945 |
| Smithsonian Institution: National Zoo | https://nationalzoo.si.edu/ | 462 |
| SpaceX | https://spacex.com | 877 |
| SVG Silh | https://svgsilh.com | 358,943 |
| Thingiverse | https://www.thingiverse.com | 32,395 |
| Thorvaldsens Museum | http://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk | 9,052 |
| Wikimedia Commons | https://commons.wikimedia.org | 44,491,984 |
| WOCinTech Chat | https://www.wocintechchat.com/ | 267 |
| World Register of Marine Species | http://www.marinespecies.org | 19,783 |