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Project Gutenberg
This site allows you to locate material and also to verify whether a specific work is really in the public domain.

Public Domain Texts
This Mega site provides links to various libraries of downloadable public domain texts.

 

Computer Sciences

The Jargon File
A public domain version of The New Hacker's Dictionary.

 

Education

Aesop's Fables
This site has some restrictions for use.

 

Health Sciences

Bookshelf
A growing collection of biomedical books from National Center for Biotechnology Health (NCBI), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

 

Humanities

Aesop's Fables
This site has some restrictions for use.

Choral Public Domain Library
A large collection of musical scores in the public domain. Be sure to read the Copyright information.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Historic American Sheet Music
A collection of 19th and 20th Century Sheet Music from Duke University.

Knowledgerush

LION - Literature Online
One of the CSS Library's full-text databases that contains more than 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from American and English Literature. Please contact the Library for more details.

Mutopia Project
A growing collection of sheet music that are free to download, print, distribute, and perform.

Project Wittenberg
A listing of texts by Martin Luther and those important to Lutheranism.

Information about Project Wittenberg & Copyright

Wikisource
A collection of primary source texts.

 

Mathematics

Wikibooks: Mathematics Bookshelf
A collection of textbooks that can be used or edited by anyone. Click here to learn more about acceptable content.

 

Natural Sciences

National Science Foundation
A collection of publications produced by the National Science Foundation.

 

Physical Sciences

Physics for Free
A collection of 3 free physics textbooks written by Emeritus Professor Frank Firk, former Chairman of the Department of Physics, Yale University.