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Creative Commons – An international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture.
Europeana – Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage.
Digital Public Library of America – A platform that brings together many collections of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Library of Congress – Use the largest library in the world online or in person!
Internet Archive – A non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Project Gutenberg – A library of over 75,000 free eBooks. The world’s great literature is here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
Internet Archive – Over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts.
HathiTrust – Home to millions of digitized books and publications.
Standard Ebooks – A collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.
Google Books – Find and download over 10 million free books and magazines, primarily classics published before 1925.

Wikimedia Commons – Many public domain images (check license)
Library of Congress – Search millions of items in many formats and languages.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Over 492,000 images of public-domain artworks, is available for free and unrestricted use.
Rijksmuseum – This innovative platform opens a world of beauty and knowledge, where images, archival sources, stories, and research come together.
National Gallery of Art – Free open access image downloads are now available directly from the object pages located on this website. More than 60,000 images are available for download.
New York Public Library – Explore 1,070,667 items digitized from The New York Public Library’s collections.

Musopen – Provides recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.
Free Music Archive – Free access to open licensed, original music by independent artists around the world.
Library of Congress – Use the largest library in the world online or in person!
Internet Archive – Recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users.

Internet Archive – Digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
National Archives and Records Administration – Audio-Video and Motion Picture Preservation Labs.
Prelinger Archives – Collects, preserves, and facilitates access to films of historic significance that haven’t been collected elsewhere.

Works created by U.S. federal government employees as part of their job are usually public domain.

NASA – Discover our intergalactic multimedia collections.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – The imagery showcased in the PHIL is historic in nature.
U.S. Geological Survey – provides access to over 180,000 publications written by USGS scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau.
National Park Service – search by keyword, location, or file type (including photos, videos, audio, webcams, and podcasts) and filter for high-quality images.

(Always check each site’s usage guidelines.)