Resources - Library of free or open projects

Phylopic

Free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses.

unDraw

Find the images that match your needs and generate color on the fly.

Wheelmap

Online map of wheelchair-accessible places

OER Commons

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources.

Fluff

Comic strips by Nina Paley

One zoom

The tree of life shows us the origins of living beings

OpenCourseWare

The “OpenCourseWare” puts online the educational material used in the courses of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Electrosmash

Buildable music devices

CC Mixter

La graine

Scratch

Create stories, games, and animations

Wikitravel

Free travel guides, written and edited by Wikitravellers around the world

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Find the sequences associated with integers!

Public Domain Movies

Classic Movies in the Public Domain

DIY Dog

A compilation of every BrewDog beer recipe

Comic Book Plus

Searchable and downloadable old comics

Machine blueprint

Low-Cost construction of machines

Picography

High-Resolution, Royalty-Free, Stock Photos

Amilova

Publishing comics and manga

The Yojik Website

This site is dedicated to language learners. You will find here the FSI, DLI and Peace-Corps courses.

Open Food Facts

Food products database

Pixabay

Stunning free images & royalty free stock

Pepper&Carrot

Webcomic financed by its readers from all over the world

The Mutopia Project

Public domain or creative commons music scores.

Mullana

Some drawings by Mullana in Creative Commons, mainly on famous women.

archive.org

Internet Archive is a non-profit organization dedicated to archiving the Web

Industry documents library

A portal to millions of documents created by industries that influence public health, hosted by the UCSF Library.

Plants For A Future

Useful and edible plants of temperate regions

HAL

Archive and dissemination of research-level scientific articles, published or not

MinuteEarth

MinuteEarth is an exciting science and history channel

GBIF

Providing everyone, everywhere with data on all forms of life on Earth

Open photo

Photos under various free or open licenses

Wikienigma

Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns.
Wikenigma is a unique wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge.

Inaturalist

A Community for Naturalists

Project Apollo Archive

Gathering of all the photos from the Apollo lunar expeditions

Low tech Lab

Low tech tutorials

Digital repository of multilingual stories

Digital repository of multilingual stories. The site is collaborative and allows to translate the stories.

OpenSpending

By understanding how governments spend money in our name can we have a say in how that money will affect our own lives.

Wild Habitat

Build a habitat to support wildlife

Terror Bull Games

Board games

Wikibooks

The open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.

copyrightexpired.com

A Collection of Illustrations From Popular Sources Published Prior to 1923

Big Buck Bunny

Cartoon made by Sacha Goedegebure as part of the Blender Institute

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thousands of artworks made available

Oppia

Oppia’s mission is to provide a learning platform that meets the unique needs for under resourced communities.

Wiktionnary

Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English.

Foodies feed

Pictures of food

Naval History and Heritage Command

American Naval Heritage Preservation Records.

Sintel

Blender Foundation Short Film

Instructables

Instructables is a website that specializes in DIY projects (Do it yourself)

Project Gutenberg

Library of over 70,000 free eBooks

Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

Photographs, illustrations and multimedia files held by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

Worms

World Register of Marine Species

OpenDesk

Sharing blueprints and assembly instructions for furniture construction

Openclipart

Open Clipart is an online media collection of more than 160 000 vectorial graphics, entirely in the public domain.

Mushroom Observer

Recording observations about mushrooms

The public domain review

A very large collection of works placed in the public domain.

Open Beauty Facts

Beauty products database

Public money, public code

Why is tax-funded software not released under a Free License?

Night of the Living Dead

Romero classic horror film

Khan academy

Provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

LoL, a serious matter

Through interviews with fourteen speakers from Libre software or similar, “LoL” is a journey in 8 stages into the heart of our digital habits.

Fixing Fashion

Fixing Fashion is making repair, care and upgrade the new fashion.

Mondes sociaux

Open access digital magazine, created and managed by researchers

CIA Electronic Reading Room

Access to declassified CIA documents.

Nothing to hide

Documentary that explores the effects of mass surveillance on individuals and society

Font Awesome

More than 2000 quality icons under CC BY open license available in svg format or usable as library.

Wikimedia commons

Multilingual media library of content (images, sounds and videos)

Ehma

Musical daubs for answering machines and elevators. Impressive work by Ehma.

My human kit

Sharing and making technical aids for people with disabilities

Wikihouse

A free downloadable house kit

Stock Snap

Beautiful free stock photos

Complaints choir

Expression of frustrations through the choir

Open Data Guide

This guide discusses the legal, social and technical aspects of open data.

Hobbit house

An ecological and beautiful house!

Open knowledge

We are building a world open by design where all knowledge is accessible to everyone.

Museum Collection

Works of art can be viewed according to era, department or usage rights.

Arxiv

Open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly scientific articles.

Nestor Makhno archives

Archives related to Nestor Makhno

Paris Museum

Free and unrestricted availability of over 100,000 reproductions

I fix it

Explore a World of Repair

Jamendo

Hundreds of thousands of free music tracks

Xeno-canto

Sharing recordings of wild bird sounds from around the world

The Internet’s Own Boy

The Life of American developer, writer, and cyber activist Aaron Swartz

Freesound

Collective repository of audio samples under different Creative Commons licenses

Appropedia

The sustainability wiki! We help build rich and sustainable lives by sharing knowledge, experiences, ideas and more.

Free Photo Bank

FreePhotoBank is a free stock photo site.

Wikisource

Library supported by the “Wikimedia Foundation”

From seed to humus

Free open source resources to reduce the environmental footprint

Proteopedia

Online encyclopedia, displaying 3D images of proteins and other molecules related to biology

Public domain image collections

Discover nearly 2000 collections of public domain images.

Chaos, a mathematical adventure

A math movie with nine 13-minute chapters.

Iso Republic

Thousands of Free High-Resolution Stock CC0 Photos and Videos

Dimensions

Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension.

Plainly Difficult

Documentaries focusing on disasters, scientific discoveries and transport!

WikiArchives.Space

Photos taken from space under public domain license or CC-BY-NC

WING IT!

WING IT! is an open movie, made entirely with Blender.

Encyclopedia of life

Global access to knowledge about life on Earth

Open Movie Project

The iconic Blender Open Movies.

Transiscope

Transiscope’s goal is to raise the visibility of all the alternatives working for transition by collecting existing data and creating a single map to display the initiatives.

Stories to share

Children’s books about living together

FOCA stock

Download free stock photos for commercial use

National library of medicine

World’s largest biomedical library and a national resource for health professionals, scientists, and the public

Ghent Altarpiece

A artwork by painter Jan van Eyck being restored

Little visuals

Free, high resolution images

Wikiversity

Set learning free

Paleoart

Paleoartist Nobu Tamura brings extinct creatures back to life

VideoPong

Video clips for editing and VJing.

Toolbox

Free and open source management tools

Libre shot

Professional quality photos by Martin Vorel.

Precious Plastic Community Platform

Learn & share how to recycle, build and work with plastic.

Sita sings the blues

Sita Sings the Blues is an American animated film

Librivox

Audiobooks are read by volunteers around the world

Lifemap

Platform for interactively exploring the evolutionary relationships between all known species, offering detailed information on all clades and links to other resources.

RCSB PDB

La graine

Farm Hack

We are a worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools. We share our hacks online and at meet ups.

3D components

3D components library (STEP/STL/FCStd) in CC-BY 3.0

OpenEdition

Digital publishing at the service of scientific communication in human and social sciences

TED Talks

Videos on various themes and actions around the world

Floss Manuals

Floss Manuals provides free manuals on themes and free software

NASA images and videos

Images and videos from the “National Aeronautics and Space Administration”

Skitter photo

A place to find, show and share public domain photos

The Courtauld photograph collection

After five years and the participation of 14,000 volunteers, the Courtauld Institute of Art has opened its internationally renowned, multi-million-image digital photography collection to the public for free.