In addition to multimedia found through the Gale databases, the list below includes credible online databases and free Web sites. The collections include multimedia such as photographs and other images, maps, audio recordings, and video recordings.
AP Archive
The film and video archive of The Associated Press on YouTube. The collection offers 1.7 million global news and entertainment video stories dating back to 1895. Curated playlists are also available.
Boston TV News Digital Library
Digitized Boston-area news programs dating from the early 1960s to 2000.
Internet Archive TV News
Launched in 2012 (with content dating back to 2009), the archive is an open-access database of broadcast clips and closed caption text for search and discovery. Programs include national news broadcasts as well as local news programs. The Internet Archive provides loans of full programs on DVD and full viewing on the premises of the Internet Archive library.
Free access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Videos and transcripts of C-Span programs; includes public affairs programming, Congressional proceedings, news conferences, BookTV non-fiction author talks and interviews, and more. Contains every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 160,000 hours.
An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use. All Openverse content is under a Creative Commons license or is in the public domain.
Citing Online Databases
Getting quick citations from Gale library databases
Getting quick citations from World Book and Encylopedia Brittanica