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Authors Alliance
The Authors Alliance embraces the unprecedented potential digital networks have for the creation and distribution of knowledge and culture. We represent the interests of authors who want to harness this potential to share their creations more broadly in order to serve the public good.
CIA World Factbook
Details about all the countries of the world.
Opensource.com
At opensource.com, we want to show you the places where the open source way is multiplying ideas and effort, even beyond technology.
Oral Literature in Africa
First published in 1970 by Oxford University Press, this classic study has been hailed as "the single most authoritative work on oral literature”.
Project Gutenberg
A website that preserves out-of-copyright books.
Superpower Wiki
A wiki that describes thousands of supernatural powers.
Wikipedia
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
unglue.it
A website to fund the release of Creative Commons-licensed books through a number of methods.
A Byte Of Python
"A Byte of Python" is a free book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience.
A Free, Libre and Open Glossary
A definition of terms like open source, crowdsourcing, gratis and shareable content.
A survey about copyright in the digital age
A survey about people's conception of copyright.
Accessibility Sustainability Excellence
“(R)ecommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research.”
Achieving Impossible Things
Six "impossible things": GNU/Linux, Wikipedia, the Creative Commons, the Blender Foundation, Open Hardware, and the OLPC/Sugar project. All created under free licenses for everyone to use, in defiance of our conventional ideas of business economics. Is it magic, coincidence, or just plain common sense at work here?
Aerogel.org
[A]n encyclopedic reference about aerogels, how-to guides for making aerogels and building a do-it-yourself supercritical dryer, the world's most comprehensive aerogel image gallery, a podcast with the world's leading aerogel scientists, and more.
Against Intellectual Property
Kinsella [argues] that the very existence of patents are contrary to a free market, and adds in here copyrights and trademarks too.
Against Monopoly
A blog on intellectual property.
An Anarchist FAQ
Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication
Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence.
Australian Digital Alliance
'We are Australia's peak body representing copyright users and innovators.'
Australian Electoral Commission
The government body that supervises and manages elections.
Australian Government Intellectual Property Manual
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Beginning Titan The Distributed Graph Database
Beginning Titan is a comprehensive guide to Titan database.
CC Government Guide
A guide to using Creative Commons licensing in government.
Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom
Anti-IP libertarian blog from Stephen Kinsella.
Centre For Policy Development
A thinktank.
Choosealicense.com
A guide to choosing a license.
Code Book
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Commonwealth of Learning
An organisation which encourages the sharing of research, knowledge and technology.
Communia
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Comunes
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Connexions
An open education repository.
Consequences, risks and side-effects of the license module “non-commercial use only”
The title is comprehensive.
Copy/South Dossier
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Copyright Week
A project from the EFF about problems with copyright.
Copyright for Librarians
"Copyright for Librarians" (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Copywrong
Facts about how Australian copyright law is out of touch.
Cosmo Noticias
Information about space.
Creationistas
A lobbying site in favour of fair use.
Creative Commons Certificate
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Creative Commons: A User Guide
A step-by-step guide to the world of CC licenses.
Critical Point of View
An INC Reader for Wikipedia.
Cryptoparty Handbook
This 392 page, Creative Commons licensed handbook is designed to help those with no prior experience to protect their basic human right to Privacy in networked, digital domains.
Debtocracy
A documentary about the debt crisis.
Deep Freeze
In Deep Freeze, economists Philipp Bagus and David Howden demonstrate that the real cause of the calamity was bad central bank policy.
Design Livre
Design Livre is an attitude, a way of conceiving the design and seek a comprehensive and inclusive look, recognizing designs made by people. (translated from Portuguese)
Diagonal
A Spanish language periodical.
Drafting the Gift Domain
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending your rights in the digital world
Envisioning Technology
'Envisioning Technology is an award-winning tech-trend forecasting studio with people in London, São Paulo and New York.'
Forall X
This text describes two formal languages which have been of special importance to philosophers: truth-functional sentential logic and quantified predicate logic. The book covers translation, formal semantics, and proof theory for both languages.
Free Culture Guide
An Arabic guide to free culture.
Free Knowledge Based On Creative Commons Licenses
Problems with using the NonCommercial Creative Commons license term.
Free To Mix
''The guide gives you information, activities and ideas to confidently create a remix from material you know you have the rights to reuse.''
FreeLab
A 'technical support collective for freedom oriented intentional communities'
Freebase
A repository of structured data.
Freesouls
Photos of Joi Ito and writings from others.
Frontier Encounters
'Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between [China, Russia and Mongolia] are enacted, produced, and crossed.'
Full Circle Magazine
A free, independent magazine for Ubuntu Linux.
Future of Copyright 2.0 Anthology
Fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.
Future of Copyright Anthology
Short fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.
Gimp Magazine
The goal of this publication is to promote GIMP and related open source software.
Global Voices
A network of bloggers.
Group Works
A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings
Hackathon How To Guide
A guide on holding your own hackathon.
Hierarchy of Interface
How people interact with tabletop games.
Homotopy Type Theory
Homotopy type theory is a new branch of mathematics that combines aspects of several different fields in a surprising way.
How Open Is It?
Defining open access.
I Can Do Anything Badly 2
This book aims to put in common the strategies, methodologies, motivations, and experiences of a wide range of young creators, organizers, and business owners in art, design, technology, academia, and Internet culture in order to document the spirit of DIY in the digital age.
Icommons
iCommons is a registered UK charity that promotes collaboration among proponents of open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world.
Immersion Into Noise
On a planet that is increasingly technologically linked and globally mediated, how might noises break and re-connect in distinctive and productive ways within practices located in the world of art and thought?
In The Shade Of The Commons
About bridging the gaps between information societies.
Income Models for Open Access
Integrity At Scale
A book proposing the Redesign Revolution.
International Journal of the Commons
A journal that discusses resources that can be shared and used collectively.
Introduction To Basic Legal Citation
US legal citation.
Introduction To Economic Analysis
This book presents standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that, in the authors view, ought to be standard but is not.
Issues In Open Research Data
The book features chapters by open data experts in a range of academic disciplines, covering practical information on licensing, ethics, and advice for data curators, alongside more theoretical issues surrounding the adoption of open data.
It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes
A book which contrasts extraordinary private innovation with government recalcitrance.
Italian Constitutional Court
Has an experimental open data section.
Jagannath Mohanty
John Colagioia
John Colagioia's blog - including the Free Culture Book Club.
Jono Bacon
Man who is involved in Ubuntu community, also in a band.
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open-access publication for original articles, reviews and case studies that analyze or describe the strategies, partnerships and impact of library-led digital projects, online publishing and scholarly communication initiatives.
Konkani Vishkawosh
Konkani Vishwakosh is a four-volume hard copy encyclopedia (3632 pages) published by Goa University; a work that took over 14 years to develop.
LWN.net
''LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.''
La Quadrature du Net
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Let's CC
Libre Culture
An anthology arguing for freeing up works from copyright.
Libre Graphics Magazine
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Libre Graphics Research Unit
LibreBus
A project to raise awareness of libre.
Light And Matter
This is an introductory text intended for a one-year introductory course of the type typically taken by biology majors, or for AP Physics B.
Linvix
A Spanish language Linux magazine.
Media Studies 101
Creative Commons crowdsourced textbook.
Move Commons
''Move Commons is a simple tool for connecting potential volunteers and contributors to initiatives, collectives and NGOs. ''
Moving Image Contest
The results of a contest to explain the tension between culture and copyright.
Muktware
A Linux magazine.
Oil Contracts
Understanding how oil contracts work - over 200 pages.
On the Commons
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Open Access Ebooks
''This chapter discusses what Open Access means in the context of e-books, how Open Access e-books can be supported, and the roles that Open Access e-books will play in libraries and in our society.''
Open Data Handbook
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Open Data, Open Society
A research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations
Open Educational Resources in the People’s Republic of China: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects for Development
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Open English Bible
A project to create a modern public domain translation of the Bible.
Open Hardware Journal
A journal about open hardware.
Open Library Of The Humanities
''Welcome to the initial ideas hub for the Open LIbrary of Humanities (OLH): a project exploring a PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences.''
Open Policy Network
''The mission of the Open Policy Network is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information.''
Open Source Licensing
Open The Future
A futurism blog.
Open source books
Learn more about open source and the growing open source movement with our comprehensive list of books below.
Openlibra
OpenLibra "La Biblioteca Libre online que estabas esperando"
P2PU
An online learning community.
President of Russia website
The website of the President of the Russian Federation.
Pressbooks Directory
'The Pressbooks Directory is a free, searchable catalog that includes 8,727 open access books published across 211 unique networks using Pressbooks.'
Producing Open Source Software
How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
Public Domain Review
Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
Public Knowledge
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Question Copyright
An advocacy group for copyright reform.
Rad Geek People's Daily
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Recordagrave
Photographs and transcriptions of tombstones.
Right To Music
A free, fair, independent music advocacy group.
Right2Remix
Advocating for legal remixing.
Safecast
A project to empower people with data by distributing the load of data collection.
Saylor
A foundation to make education free for all.
Sharing Is Liberty
A blog about copyright reform.
Smartcopying
*The Official Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE*
So You Want To Be A Librarian
*Provides information about librarianship as a career, including types of libraries, types of jobs within libraries, professional issues, and educational requirements.*
Spectrum of Rights
A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licenses work
SpringerOpen
An open access publisher in medicine, science and technology.
Start Programming With Python
A guide to programming with Python.
Stephen Kinsella
An anti-IP libertarian writer and lawyer.
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
Tex For The Impatient
The Case For Copyright Reform
"The book is a compilation of the strongest articles on reform of the copyright monopoly from Christian Engström (MEP) and (Rick Falkvinge)"
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925: Theory Of A Genre
''In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals.''
The Cookbook
Reflections on preparing a crowdsourced FLO textbook.
The Democracy Of Objects
''Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy.''
The Digital Public Domain
"(T)he authors argue that the Public Domain — that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information — is fundamental to a healthy society."
The Endless Knot
Blog and podcast.
The First 100 Days Of Government
The Abbott Coalition Government's assessment of what it has achieved in its first 100 days.
The Foundations For An Open Source City
A book about how Raleigh, North Carolina became an ''open source city''.
The GNU C Programming Tutorial
The Libertarian Standard
A libertarian blog.
The Libre Labyrinth
Navigating the Maze of Free and NonFree Licenses
The Most Amazing Online Organizing Guide Ever!
"[A] new FREE guide designed to help environmental and social change activists kick butt and break through on social media."
The Open Book
'The Open Book is a crowdsourced publication that introduces the global movement for open knowledge in the words of those who are helping to build it today.'
The Open Revolution
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The Open Utopia
An open content take on Thomas More's Utopia.
The Peeragogy Handbook
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The Power Of Open
A book from Creative Commons about how those licenses have been used in various projects.
The Psychology Of Emotions Feelings And Thoughts
This book makes the statement that thought, action and feeling can occur in any order, it also puts forth the idea that life is divided into three groups, emotion, thinking, and feeling.
The Python Game Book
What it says in the title.
The Social Media Reader
'Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few.'
The Wealth Of The Commons
'A new collection of 73 essays that describe the enormous potential of the commons in conceptualizing and building a better future'
The WikiPremed MCAT Course
WikiPremed's mission is to lower economic barriers to becoming a doctor and to improve the quality of MCAT review for everyone.
Tint
This is Not This is Not a Podcast - a sports podcast.
Traficantes de Sueños
A Spanish book publisher.
Training.gov.au
A website cooperation between state and federal governments.
Trolling Effects
''Trolling Effects is a resource for those who have been targeted by patent trolls.''
Understanding Changes In Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction.
VlogBrothers Distribution Project
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We Magazine
A magazine about collective action.
What's the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing
What it says.
White House
The website of the President of the United States.
Why Open Education Matters
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Why the Heck Should I Care about the TPP?
What it says.
Wikinews
The Wikinews project is a free content news source of the Wikimedia Foundation that seeks to provide content, free of charge, where everyone is invited to contribute reports about events large and small, either from direct experience, or summarized from elsewhere.
Winning The Web
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Writer's Dice Guide
A guide for using writer's dice.
Zenhabits
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copyleft.org
copyleft.org is a collaborative project to create and disseminate useful information, tutorial material, and new policy ideas regarding all forms of copyleft licensing.
eLife
eLife is a unique collaboration between funders and practitioners of research to communicate influential discoveries in the life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way.
Non-free, libre and open licensed
These entries may not be free, libre and open.
A Guide To Open Content Licenses
A Short Introduction to Graphic Design History
A graphic design primer.
Adapt
A repository of Australian OER for Adaptation Studies.
Bloomsbury Academic
Non-fiction
Bound By Law
A comic book about intellectual property law.
Coase's Penguin
An analysis of the economics behind free, libre and open source software.
Copyright And Creation
A report from the London School of Economics and Political Science, finding that online sharing does not reduce creator profits.
Critical Hits
The journal of gamer culture.
Crystal Obelisk
Deconcrete
A blog about the lives of buildings and lives in buildings.
Developing Open Access Electronic Journals: A Practical Guide
What it says in the title.
Dictionary Of Sydney
Emergency 2.0 Wiki
An Australian disaster awareness site.
Feedback Loops in Game Design
Feeding The City
Sara Roncaglia’s study of the fascinating inner workings of the dabbawalas.
Free Beer Book
Free Software, Free Society
Selected essays of Richard Stallman.
Google Chrome Comic
An introduction to Google's open source browser project.
Hacking Politics
How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet
Honda 3D Design Archives
External designs of Honda's cars.
International Free and Open Source Software Law Book
The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues.
Internet Archive
An organisation devoted to permanent access to digital collections.
Issuelab
A collection of information.
Libre Projects
A very attractive site that presents key libre projects.
Lowering The Bar
Funny tales of the law.
Management Exchange
An open discussion on how to improve management for the 21st century.
New Media Rights
'New Media Rights is a non-profit program that provides legal services, education, and advocacy for Internet users and creators.'
No Straight Lines
'No Straight Lines offers a plethora of examples of how societies and companies around the world are using technology in a collaborative and innovative way, bringing success to their economy and a meaningful connection between the members of the community.'
Onlinecomputerbooks
A website with many free ebooks, some of which are open.
Open Data Commons
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Open Design Now
A book about the importance of open design.
Open Society Foundations
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Opendemocracy
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Our Digital Future
"Internet users from across the globe have come together to create a crowdsourced vision for free expression online."
Practical Survivor
How to survive in the wild.
Repository 66
A mash-up of the locations of open access repositories.
Republic Lost
How money pollutes democracy.
Sharing The Book
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Smarthistory
*Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history. *
Story Games Names Project
A big book of names from different cultures.
TV Tropes
A website about tropes in fiction, mythology and real life.
The Art Of Community
About open source, crowdsourcing and community creation from Jono Bacon, the man who runs Wired.
The Conversation
Peer reviewed journalism.
The Public Domain
A book on copyright, copyleft and everything else.
The Wealth Of Networks
A book on the information networks made possible by the Internet.
Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies
An engaging presentation of logical fallacies.
Transontology
Open source (well, semi-open) religion.
Where Are Your Keys
A game for teaching languages in a fun and accessible way
Zach Weinersmith
A cartoonist whose books have been Creative Commons licensed.