Index of Public Domain Resources
List was initiated by Kevin Savetz,
Around November 1995
adopted by Bud Banis on 12 February, 1998
last updated March 10, 1998,
It will soon be completely revised and
updated.
If you have suggestions or information that would help in this
effort,
please direct them to Bud Banis
This index contains pointers to works that are in the public domain.
Public domain doesn't mean "shareware." It isn't a work that is owned by
somebody else, who allows you to use it for free. It isn't software distributed
under the "GNU Public License," or a copyrighted book that the author has put
online. Public domain means that the creator of the work, with no strings
attached, has given up all rights to the work. It means that you may do
anything with the work that you want - read it, publish it, put it on
CD-ROM, change it.
Public domain doesn't mean a work is owned by no one; it means it is
owned by everyone.
Literature
- 1995 CIA
World Factbook
- Project Gutenberg
- PD
Children's Books
- Project Bartleby
- Public Domain Modern
English Search
- The Jargon File, AKA
The New Hacker's Dictionary
- Online Book Initiative, a huge
archive of etexts
- Internet Wiretap, another massive
repository of etexts
- Project Libellus,
another archive of etexts. In English and Latin
- Lieder and song texts,
provides original-language of Lieder by many different composers (such as
Schubert, Brahms and Mahler)
- Christian Classics Ethereal
Library, Classic Christian books
- Complete Works of
William Shakespeare
- Public-Domain
Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
- The Public Domain
Palindrome Page, lots of palindromes
- Eurodocs, Western
European key historical documents
- Project
Wittenberg, classic and historic texts written by Lutherans
- Our Family
Museum: A Collection of Family History Notes by James Nohl Churchyard
- Matthew
Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
- Science Fiction &
Fantasy Gallery of Public Domain Fiction
- D. H. Lawrence
Poetry Page
- Latin Vulgate
Bible
- The Naked Word, eText for the
Masses, plain text of several works
- many
religious texts and letters
- Letters
of Dionysius the Areopagiete
- Angst
FAQ
- JIT's Freedom Station Central, US
historical documents
- Martin Ward's G.K.Chesterton
web site: http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs0mpw/gkc/
Technical Works
- IETF Request For
Comments Documents (RFC's), a series of documents covering a broad range
of topics, mainly the Internet and the TCP/IP protocol suite.
- InterNet eMail
Guide
- A Beginner's Guide
to Effective Email
- RefWorld, databases of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Consumer Law
brochures, over 100 of them
- NCSA
What's New prior to November 1994
- ISO-Latin-1 Character Set
- Brown &
Williamson Collection, primarily of scientific studies on the addictive
nature of nicotine and other health effects of tobacco smoke
- Report of the IIT
Bombay Wildlife Club's Summer Symbiosis '94 held at the Corbett Tiger
Reserve
- Linux
Information Sheet, provides basic information about the Linux operating
system, including an explanation of Linux, a list of features, some
requirements, and some resources.
Sofware & source code
- Search shareware.com's archives for "public
domain"
- Virtual Creation's CGI
Programmers Page, PD CGI tools
- The CCD Public Domain
Software Page, UNIX software
- APACHE, a WWW server
- W3C httpd
(CERN), another WWW server
- GOOD, a
software environment for interactive programming of 3D graphics
- Klm, a Motif
scripting tool.
- Vertigo, a
flight simulator for the IBM PC
- Numerical software
source code
- A Guide to Public Domain
Software for High Performance Computing Users
- PD applications distributed by
Hypermedia Research Laboratory
- KMS
reader, a distributed hypermedia system for supporting collaborative
work
- Netfone, a
collection of programs which allow users of Sun workstations with audio
devices to speak to each other in real-time over a LAN or the Internet.
- Public Domain OCR Software
- Tcl, tool command language,
an embeddable scripting language. Web info here
- Tk, a graphical user interface
toolkit based on Tcl. Web info here
- Public Domain
software at ftp.com
- PD Prolog
Library
- List of Interesting
Optimization Codes in PD
- PD software written
in Oberon-2
- INRIA
Videoconferencing System, software to transmit audio and video data over
the Internet using a workstation.
- FGFLY, a military flight
simulator (alpha release)
- Envorinmental
Science/Hydrology software/spreadsheets, from INTERA
- ENVIROMOD, ground
water/porous media modeling and environmental software collection
- Prograph, a programming language
for Macintosh
- PD Software
Developed at Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC)
- a 16 bit Windows 3.1 port of
the QV libary, VRML parsing library
- MOPS, a powerful PD
development system for the Macintosh
- HDF, Hierarchical Data Format.
A multi-object file format for the transfer of graphical and numerical data
between machines. Related utils in this directory are also PD.
- NCSA Telnet for
Macintosh
- NCSA Telnet for
PC
- Marko's NextStep
applications
- RGBtoHex, converts
RGB values into hex triplet
- Software by Qiegang
Long
- DEAF, Directory
Editor + Archie + FTP
- Gtstat,
generates graphs showing WWW server traffic
- UMass Information
Navigator, allows Web access to relational databases
- The
Friends Screen Saver for Windows
- PSGL, An IRIS GL to
Postscript Library
- Internet
Config Internet setup software for Macintosh info
- Professor Hank Dietz &
students' software systems and hardware designs
- Public Domain Software
by P.A.Henning
- TBENCH, a set of
benchmark programs developed by DigiBoard Incorporated
- MTOOLS,
allows UNIX systems to read, write, and manipulate files on an MSDOS file
system
- Public Domain Aeronautical Software
also here
- Crystallography programs
- MS Costar,
provides functions for storing, retrieving, analyzing, and displaying
demographic, clinical, and test data that accrue as patients are seen and
cared over time in an MS clinic
- source code for Distributed
Interactive Simulation
- Sinhala TeX
Package, package of Metafont fonts and a preprocessor suitable for writing
Sinhala script using TeX or LaTeX.
- Selena Sol's Public Domain
Script Archive, CGI scripts
- Fredware, PD
programs for DOS and Windows by Fred McLain
- Knight Software
offers some PD programs for Windows and in Pascal
- Public Domain
Software for Public Health Professionals
Art & Images
- PD icons
- VRML art, logos
etc.
- Anti-Netscape logos
- NASA
Dryden Aircraft Photo Archive
- Background Images
Archive
- Horizontal Rules for HTML
Documents
- The
Background Sampler, Netscape backgrounds
- Saberspace,
really nice backgrounds and rules for Web pages
- Post Office icons, PD
icons intended for use with a shareware program called Post Office
- Timothy P.
O'Neill's Web page
- Welcome to Hawaii,
everything on this host available via WWW is in the PD
- AngelDreams,
clip art of angels
- Astronomy images from JPL
- Portfolio: Chris
Fearnley, computer-generated polyhedra
- Tony's Icons, mostly 64x64.
Some .GIF, some .XBM
- George's
Wedpage, wedding-related clip art
- PsychArt, A
Public Domain Library of Famous Psychologists
- Astronomy
Images Database
- Physics
animations/movies database
- GIF Images, lines,
arrows, dots, icons, stars and punctuations
- Randy's Icon and Image
Bazaar, a huge collection of GIF-format images, organized neatly
- VirtuaLibrary,
GIF89a images
- GIF89a
Animations
- Paul
Marquis' backgrounds, bars and buttons
- Public Domain Images, a commercial
service that finds PD visuals for your needs. Site includes many free JPEGs on various
subjects.
- ArtToday, a commercial service with
a searchable index of 300,000+ JPEG images, most in the PD.
- Archival Digital Imaging, creates
CD-ROMS for librarians and collectors of US history. Sample B&W PD
pictures at the Web site.
- Desert Island Films,
for-fee distributor of broadcast quality PD entertainment programming: classic
feature films, classic TV, etc.
Government Works
Works produced by the U.S. Federal government are not
copyrighted. See here
for details and here
for more details. Thus, most of the U.S. government information on the Internet
is PD, even entire Web sites, including...
Audio
Related Links
Most of these resources are not in the public
domain
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Most of these
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