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, but with a few additions October 8, 2016
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
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1995 CIA
World Factbook
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Project Gutenberg
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PD
Children's Books
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Project Bartleby
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Public Domain Modern
English Search
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The Jargon File, AKA
The New Hacker's Dictionary
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Online Book Initiative, a huge archive
of etexts
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Internet Wiretap, another massive
repository of etexts
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Project Libellus,
another archive of etexts. In English and Latin
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Lieder and song texts, provides
original-language of Lieder by many different composers (such as Schubert,
Brahms and Mahler)
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library,
Classic Christian books
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Complete Works
of William Shakespeare
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Public-Domain
Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
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The Public Domain
Palindrome Page, lots of palindromes
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Eurodocs, Western European
key historical documents
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Project
Wittenberg, classic and historic texts written by Lutherans
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Our Family Museum:
A Collection of Family History Notes by James Nohl Churchyard
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Matthew
Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Science Fiction &
Fantasy Gallery of Public Domain Fiction
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D. H. Lawrence
Poetry Page
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Latin Vulgate
Bible
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The Naked Word, eText for
the Masses, plain text of several works
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many
religious texts and letters
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Letters
of Dionysius the Areopagiete
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Angst FAQ
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JIT's Freedom Station Central,
US historical documents
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Martin Ward's G.K.Chesterton
web site: http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs0mpw/gkc/
Technical Works
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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.
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InterNet eMail Guide
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A Beginner's Guide
to Effective Email
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RefWorld, databases of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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Consumer Law brochures,
over 100 of them
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NCSA
What's New prior to November 1994
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ISO-Latin-1 Character Set
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Brown & Williamson
Collection, primarily of scientific studies on the addictive nature
of nicotine and other health effects of tobacco smoke
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Report of the IIT
Bombay Wildlife Club's Summer Symbiosis '94 held at the Corbett Tiger Reserve
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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
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Search shareware.com's
archives for "public domain"
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Virtual Creation's CGI Programmers
Page, PD CGI tools
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The CCD Public Domain
Software Page, UNIX software
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APACHE, a WWW server
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W3C httpd
(CERN), another WWW server
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GOOD, a
software environment for interactive programming of 3D graphics
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Klm, a Motif scripting
tool.
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Vertigo,
a flight simulator for the IBM PC
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Numerical software
source code
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A Guide to Public Domain
Software for High Performance Computing Users
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PD applications distributed
by Hypermedia Research Laboratory
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KMS
reader, a distributed hypermedia system for supporting collaborative
work
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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.
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Public Domain OCR Software
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Tcl, tool command language,
an embeddable scripting language. Web info here
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Tk, a graphical user interface
toolkit based on Tcl. Web info here
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Public Domain software
at ftp.com
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PD Prolog Library
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List of Interesting
Optimization Codes in PD
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PD software written
in Oberon-2
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INRIA
Videoconferencing System, software to transmit audio and video data
over the Internet using a workstation.
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FGFLY, a military flight
simulator (alpha release)
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Envorinmental
Science/Hydrology software/spreadsheets, from INTERA
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ENVIROMOD, ground water/porous
media modeling and environmental software collection
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Prograph, a programming language
for Macintosh
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PD Software Developed
at Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC)
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a 16 bit Windows 3.1 port
of the QV libary, VRML parsing library
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MOPS, a powerful
PD development system for the Macintosh
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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.
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NCSA Telnet
for Macintosh
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NCSA Telnet for
PC
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Marko's NextStep
applications
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RGBtoHex, converts
RGB values into hex triplet
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Software by Qiegang
Long
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DEAF, Directory Editor
+ Archie + FTP
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Gtstat,
generates graphs showing WWW server traffic
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UMass Information Navigator,
allows Web access to relational databases
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The Friends
Screen Saver for Windows
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PSGL, An IRIS GL to Postscript
Library
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Internet Config
Internet setup software for Macintosh info
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Professor Hank Dietz &
students' software systems and hardware designs
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Public Domain Software
by P.A.Henning
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TBENCH, a set
of benchmark programs developed by DigiBoard Incorporated
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MTOOLS,
allows UNIX systems to read, write, and manipulate files on an MSDOS file
system
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Public Domain Aeronautical Software
also here
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Crystallography programs
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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
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source code for Distributed
Interactive Simulation
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Sinhala TeX Package,
package of Metafont fonts and a preprocessor suitable for writing Sinhala
script using TeX or LaTeX.
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Selena Sol's Public Domain
Script Archive, CGI scripts
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Fredware,
PD programs for DOS and Windows by Fred McLain
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Knight Software
offers some PD programs for Windows
and in Pascal
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Public Domain
Software for Public Health Professionals
Art & Images
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PD icons
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VRML art, logos
etc.
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Anti-Netscape logos
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NASA Dryden
Aircraft Photo Archive
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Background Images Archive
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Horizontal Rules for HTML
Documents
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The
Background Sampler, Netscape backgrounds
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Saberspace, really
nice backgrounds and rules for Web pages
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Post Office icons, PD
icons intended for use with a shareware program called Post Office
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Timothy P.
O'Neill's Web page
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Welcome to Hawaii,
everything on this host available via WWW is in the PD
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AngelDreams,
clip art of angels
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Astronomy images from JPL
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Portfolio: Chris
Fearnley, computer-generated polyhedra
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Tony's Icons, mostly 64x64.
Some .GIF, some .XBM
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George's Wedpage,
wedding-related clip art
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PsychArt,
A Public Domain Library of Famous Psychologists
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Astronomy
Images Database
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Physics animations/movies
database
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GIF Images, lines,
arrows, dots, icons, stars and punctuations
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Randy's Icon and Image Bazaar,
a huge collection of GIF-format images, organized neatly
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VirtuaLibrary,
GIF89a images
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GIF89a Animations
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Paul Marquis'
backgrounds, bars and buttons
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Public Domain Images, a commercial
service that finds PD visuals for your needs. Site includes many free
JPEGs on various subjects.
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ArtToday, a commercial service with
a searchable index of 300,000+ JPEG images, most in the PD.
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Archival Digital Imaging, creates
CD-ROMS for librarians and collectors of US history. Sample B&W PD
pictures at the Web site.
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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
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