Free and Public Domain Content – Web Directory
July 28, 2025•355 words
Free and Public Domain Content – Web Directory
1. Books & Texts (Public Domain & Free Licenses)
- Project Gutenberg – 60,000+ public domain ebooks.
- Internet Archive – Texts – Scanned books and research texts.
- Google Books – Filter by "Free Google eBooks".
- Wikisource – Multilingual source texts in the public domain.
- Standard Ebooks – Modernized, well-formatted public domain EPUBs.
- ManyBooks – Free indie and public domain books.
- Open Library – Borrow or download public domain books.
2. Academic & Education
- MIT OpenCourseWare – Full university-level courses.
- Khan Academy – Free educational videos and exercises.
- DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals (20,000+).
- arXiv – Open access preprints for physics, math, CS.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) – Academic books freely available.
3. Images & Art
- Unsplash – High-quality photos under free license.
- Pexels – Free stock photos and videos.
- Pixabay – Free photos, illustrations, and videos.
- Flickr Commons – Archival photos from public institutions.
- The Met Collection – 500,000+ public domain artworks.
4. Music & Audio
- Free Music Archive – Creative Commons and free music.
- Jamendo – Free music for personal use and licensing.
- Incompetech – Royalty-free music and scores.
- Musopen – Public domain classical music and sheet music.
5. Video & Film
- Internet Archive – Video – Public domain films and TV.
- Public Domain Movies – Classic movies in the public domain.
- Vimeo – Creative Commons – High-quality free videos.
- Open Culture – Free films, courses, and audiobooks.
6. Software & Code
- GitHub – Millions of public open-source repositories.
- SourceForge – Open-source software hosting and downloads.
- GNU Project – Official free software projects.
- F-Droid – Free and open-source Android app store.
7. Maps, Data & Miscellaneous
- OpenStreetMap – Open map data anyone can edit.
- Data.gov – US Government open datasets.
- Wikimedia Commons – 90+ million freely usable media files.
- Library of Congress – Historic texts, images, audio in the public domain.