Public Institutions
Other public institutions.
Digital Public Library of America
Aggregates digitized collections from American libraries, archives, and museums.
Digital Library
American Culture
Open Resources
Europeana
European digital library, museum, and archive, offering millions of digitized cultural heritage items.
European Culture
Digital Heritage
Open Access
Internet Archive
Non-profit digital library offering millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Digital Library
Cultural Preservation
Open Resources
Open Knowledge Foundation
Non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open knowledge, operating multiple open data and open content projects.
Open Knowledge
Open Data
Civic Engagement
Open Library
A project of the Internet Archive, aiming to create a web page for every book ever published.
Digital Library
Open Books
Public Domain
Open Culture
Website aggregating free cultural and educational media, including courses, audiobooks, ebooks, and more.
Cultural Resources
Free Education
Media Collection
Open GLAM
Initiative promoting open access to collections from cultural institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).
Cultural Heritage
Open Access
Digitization
Open Source Initiative
Non-profit organization promoting open-source software, maintaining the Open Source Definition.
Open Source Software
Licensing
Tech Community
Open Education Consortium
Global alliance for open education resources and practices.
Open Education
Online Learning
Educational Resources
Open Preservation Foundation
Non-profit organization dedicated to developing open-source digital preservation technology and knowledge sharing.
Digital Preservation
Cultural Heritage
Open Source Technology
Public Domain Review
Online journal and project exploring and promoting works in the public domain.
Public Domain
Cultural Exploration
Art History
Project Gutenberg
Volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, mainly books with expired copyright.
Ebooks
Public Domain
Literary Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation
Non-profit organization supporting Wikipedia and several other free, open, and collaborative knowledge projects.
Open Encyclopedia
Collaborative Knowledge
Free Culture