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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.
Catastroika
A crowdfunded documentary about the effects of privatisation.
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.
1923: A Monthly Zine of Public Domain Treasures
1923 is a year-long zine publication by Parker Higgins distributed on paper to 100 subscribers and online to the world. It was funded through a Kickstarter campaign in January 2019.
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 Mathematical Way To Think about Biology
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A survey about copyright in the digital age
A survey about people's conception of copyright.
ABC's of Anarchy
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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.
Al Jazeera
CC-licensed, media-quality footage.
An Anarchist FAQ
An Open Education Reader
A collection of readings on open education with commentary.
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.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The collection of illustrations in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Bogleheads Wiki
Boundless
Textbooks.
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.
Clean Energy Wire
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Code Book
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Code School
Learn to program.
College Physics
College Physics meets standard scope and sequence requirements for a two-semester introductory algebra-based physics course.
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.
Copyright in databases in Australia
An article on the circumstances under which copyright would apply to databases.
Copywrong
Facts about how Australian copyright law is out of touch.
Cosmo Noticias
Information about space.
Cost of Freedom
Essays on and from the free culture movement.
Creationistas
A lobbying site in favour of fair use.
Creative Commons Certificate
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Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians
Whether you’re a volunteer, professor, instructional designer, researcher, administrator or technologist—or simply looking for a great holiday gift—this book offers a background on copyright law, as well as a clear guide to open licensing and open advocacy. You can read this book on its own or while taking the CC Certificate course.
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.
Deconstructing Masculinity
Deconstructing Masculinity is an animated short documentary about gender norms and especially focussed on masculinity, the problem with the idea of violent masculinity.
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)
Designing with LibreOffice
A detailed book on using the LibreOffice suite to design.
Diagonal
A Spanish language periodical.
Digital IPA Recipe
A recipe for open source beer.
Directory of Open Access Journals
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Doug Whitfield
A free culture advocate.
Drafting the Gift Domain
Ed Startup 101
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending your rights in the digital world
EngineerGuy.com
"Bill Hammack's Video & Audio on Engineering"
Envisioning Technology
'Envisioning Technology is an award-winning tech-trend forecasting studio with people in London, São Paulo and New York.'
Esperando el Tsunami
"Esperando el Tsunami (Waiting for the Tsunami) is a quest for the sounds and people of present-day Colombia, in a continuous improvisation by the filmmaker and musicians as we composed and created on the road."
Ethical Tech Giving Guide
The gifts in the left column respect your freedom much more than those in the right column.
EveryCook
Faded Page
"Faded Page is an archive of eBooks that are provided completely free to everyone."
Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors
The guide is designed to empower authors to exercise their right to use source materials to further their research and writing goals by helping them to make confident fair use decisions.
Foodista
A recipe site.
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.
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation supports visionary leaders and organizations on the frontlines of social change worldwide.
Free As In Freedom
Free Culture Guide
An Arabic guide to free culture.
Free Curricula Center
The Free Curricula Center (FCC) helps students worldwide reach their educational potential by producing and distributing university-level curricula that can be copied freely and modified cooperatively.
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.
Freebassel Cookbook
Cookbook made in solidarity with Bassel, a prisoner of the Syrian regime.
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping support and defend public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government.
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
Growstuff
Growstuff is a community of food gardeners. We're building an open source platform to help you learn about growing food, track what you plant and harvest, and swap seeds and produce with other gardeners near you.
Hackathon How To Guide
A guide on holding your own hackathon.
Hacker Public Radio
Hacker Public Radio (HPR) is an Internet Radio show (podcast) that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday.
Hello world
A blog for three documentaries about open programming languages.
Hierarchy of Interface
How people interact with tabletop games.
Holacracy Constitution
This constitution compiles the rules of Holacracy. However it is not meant as learning material — you don’t learn a new game by reading the rules.
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
Instructables
Instructables is a place that lets you explore, document, and share your creations.
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.
Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?
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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.
Journal of Sustainable Development
A transdisciplinary international journal published monthly.
K 12 Tech Tools
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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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Las Calles Hablan
A feature length documentary about street art in Barcelona
Let's CC
Letters for Black Lives
Letters for Black Lives is a set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities.
Libertarian Papers
A journal of libertarian scholarship.
Libre Culture
An anthology arguing for freeing up works from copyright.
Libre Gift Guide
A list of libre things that one might enjoy receiving from one's acquaintances at upcoming gift-giving occasions.
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.
Lumen Learning
Open course frameworks: blueprints for teaching with OER
Made with Creative Commons
A guide to sharing your knowledge and creativity with the world, and sustaining your operation while you do.
Mathispower4U
'This site provides over 2,600 free mini-lessons and example videos with no ads. The videos are organized by course and topic.'
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.
Museums Victoria Collections
This site allows users to explore the natural sciences and humanities collections of Museum Victoria in Australia, featuring collections of zoology, geology, palaeontology, history, indigenous cultures and technology. Over 1.15 million records were presented at launch in 2015, accompanied by over 150,000 images.
National Repository of Open Educational Resources
National Repository of Open Educational Resources offers resources for all school subjects and grades in multiple languages. The resources are available in the form of concept maps, videos, audio clips, talking books, multimedia, learning objects, photographs, diagrams, charts, articles, wikipages and textbooks.
New Education Highway
A non-profit working with OER and local educators.
OER Knowledge Cloud
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OER@AVU
Academic material from African universities.
OERu
''OERu gives you the chance to study independently, from home, with access to world-class courses from recognised institutions.''
Oil Contracts
Understanding how oil contracts work - over 200 pages.
On the Commons
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One Community
"7 complete and different sustainable village prototypes, all related living infrastructure, and a Highest Good society model for global transformation."
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 Building Institute
An open source effort to make ecological, affordable housing widely available.
Open Course Library
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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 Licensing of Primary Grade Reading Materials: Considerations and Recommendations
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Open Minded CEOs
A book.
Open Music Theory
"This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom."
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 Resource Bank for Interactive Teaching
The name says it all.
Open Source Cookbook
Open Source Food
A recipe website.
Open Source Food Safety
"The safety of our food supply is in everyone's interest. Our goal is to make food safety more transparent for producers, farmers and consumers."
Open Source Licensing
Open The Future
A futurism blog.
Open Trivia DB
Free to use, user-contributed trivia question database.
Open source books
Learn more about open source and the growing open source movement with our comprehensive list of books below.
OpenStax
A repository of OER.
Openchem
An entire chemistry curriculum.
Opencola
Openlibra
OpenLibra "La Biblioteca Libre online que estabas esperando"
Oppia
''Oppia is a tool for creating interactive online activities that enable students to learn by doing.''
P2PU
An online learning community.
PHONAR
Undergraduate photography class.
PIXLS.US
"To provide tutorials, workflows and a showcase for high-quality photography using Free/Open Source Software."
PLOS
Scientific and medical knowledge shared with the world.
Panton Discussions
Conversations about open data in science.
Perspectives On Open And Distance Learning
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PhET Interactive Simulations
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Plays Well With Others
"From Creative Commons, Plays Well with Others is a podcast about the art and science of collaboration."
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.
School of Open
'Learn open practices at School of Open.'
Sharing Is Liberty
A blog about copyright reform.
Slate Star Codex
A blog about science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism.
Smartcopying
*The Official Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE*
Smithsonian Open Access
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
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.
Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange is a network of 150+ Q&A communities
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
'SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.'
Start Programming With Python
A guide to programming with Python.
State Library Of Queensland
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Stephen Kinsella
An anti-IP libertarian writer and lawyer.
Syria Deeply
News on the conflict in Syria.
Teaching Copyright
"EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way."
Techdirt
A tech news site.
Tejid@s Junt@s
'(A) fun and active documentary film exploring the relationship and shared story of Workers and Students in the anti-sweatshop movement.'
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
Terra X-Clips
Instructional clips.
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 Source Way
A book about open source projects.
The Open Standard
A discontinued newsletter.
The Open Utopia
An open content take on Thomas More's Utopia.
The Other Side
A podcast network.
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 Toxies
A collection of information sheets and a simple game.
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.
Top 10 Open Source Gifts For The Holidays
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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.''
Uncensored Interview
Interviews
Understanding Changes In Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction.
Understanding Open Access
the most up-to-date information about when, why, and how to make your work openly accessible. Our goal is to encourage our members to consider open access publishing by addressing common questions and concerns and by providing real-life strategies and tools that authors can use to work with publishers, institutions, and funders to make their works more widely accessible to all.
Video Game Law
An online course about video game law.
VlogBrothers Distribution Project
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WATT
Watt explores the economic, technology, culture, and health issues facing musicians.
We Magazine
A magazine about collective action.
Wealth Inequality In America
An informative YouTube video.
What's the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing
What it says.
White House
The website of the President of the United States.
White House Honey Ale
Beer brewed on the White House grounds.
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.
Wiley Open Access
A variety of journals published by Wiley.
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.
vlogbrothers
Video blog
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.
A Story of Healing
The first CC licensed Academy Award winning film.
Adapt
A repository of Australian OER for Adaptation Studies.
Autodesk
You can freely borrow from the Autodesk Help, Support and Video libraries to build a new learning experience for anyone with a particular need or interest.
Bloomsbury Academic
Non-fiction
Blown to Bits
Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Bound By Law
A comic book about intellectual property law.
Bulbapedia
Bulbapedia is a MediaWiki installation run by Bulbagarden for the purpose of creating a Pokémon-focused encyclopedia.
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.
Framed
Short videos about how law constraints culture.
Free Beer
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.
Independent Australia
News.
Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society
This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights.
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.
Khan Academy
Lessons and tests so you can teach yourself.
La Educacion Prohibida
An independent documentary about alternative education.
Libre Projects
A very attractive site that presents key libre projects.
Lowering The Bar
Funny tales of the law.
MIER
A project to create a drink, the proceeds funding the Pirate Party.
MIT OpenCourseWare
'MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.'
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.'
OER Commons
Support for and information about OER and a place to host it.
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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OpenTest
'OpenTest is a Collaborative Assessment Database for OpenEducation.'
Opendemocracy
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Opentextbookstore
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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.
SCIRES-IT
'(P)rovides a forum for the exchange and sharing of know-how in the areas of Digitalization and Multimedia Technologies and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in support of Cultural and environmental Heritage (CH) documentation, preservation and fruition.'
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.
Streetfilms
Documenting Livable Streets Worldwide
TED Talks
Short talks from experts.
TPB AFK
A documentary about a court case against The Pirate Bay
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 Art of Asking
Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet.
The Conversation
Peer reviewed journalism.
The Future of the Internet
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The Internet's Own Boy
A documentary about Aaron Swartz.
The Manual
"The Manual is a design journal for the web, with thrice-yearly issues in print, ebook, audiobook, and online."
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.
Unicorn Riot
Anarchist citizen journalist website.
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.