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An archive of Creative Commons-licensed copies of college textbooks from a textbook publisher, downloaded at the end of 2012 and repackaged for use outside the publisher's website. The books are released under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa 3.0 license; updates from original authors are not expected on the site.
The Free Learning List is a free, ranked, and categorized directory of free educational resources from the internet. It is provided as a free service by The School of Thought International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that creates Creative Commons critical thinking resources. The directory includes YouTube channels, podcasts, eBooks, courses, subreddits, and materials focused on effective thinking, languages, programming, and books, with all content available free to access under Creative Commons licenses.
Digital Commons @ Buffalo State is the open access campus repository for scholarly and creative works produced by faculty, staff, and students. It is managed by E. H. Butler Library and promotes the discovery, dissemination, and preservation of intellectual capital. Its collections include schools and departments, archives and special collections, theses and projects, datasets, journals, events and conferences, OER, and the M. Fordham History Center.
Beautiful News is a project by Information is Beautiful that publishes one original data chart per day covering underreported positive trends, uplifting statistics and creative solutions. All chart images are available for free use and download under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Advanced R is the website for the 2nd edition of the book "Advanced R", part of Chapman & Hall's R Series. It is aimed at R users who want to improve their programming skills, and at programmers coming to R from other languages. The work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0, and the code is also available under the MIT license.
Agência Pública is a Brazilian nonprofit newsroom founded in 2011 by women reporters. It publishes in-depth investigative reports in Portuguese, English and Spanish under a Creative Commons license and investigates public administration, corporate practices, the judiciary and violence against vulnerable communities.
AudionautiX offers free production music composed and produced by Jason Shaw. The music is royalty free and may be downloaded and used, including for commercial purposes, with credit under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Tracks are organized by genre such as acoustic, blues, country, jazz, and rock.
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is a book by Al Sweigart, free to read under a Creative Commons license. It teaches Python fundamentals and projects for automating tasks such as searching the web, editing files and spreadsheets, and handling email.
Awesome Linux Audio is a curated list of software and resources for professional audio, video and live events production on Linux. It is maintained by user nodiscc on GitLab, was created on June 2, 2018, and is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. The project includes contribution guidelines for the list.
The Columbia Basin Water Hub is a data platform holding 452 datasets from 55 organizations across 12 collections. Data come from many sources and are shared under licences such as Creative Commons and the Open Government Licence. The hub team conducts a preliminary quality assurance and quality control protocol and assigns a Data Grade to each resource. Users are directed to each dataset's metadata and licence before use.
An image resource providing free abstract backgrounds, textures and design elements that can be cut and pasted into designs or used for inspiration. The site states it contains more than 2500 files, about 6GB of abstract digital photos, backgrounds and basic video clips, available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License with credit to the site and contributor required.
Data Brokers Watch curates a publicly available database of data brokers and makes it available to the research community. The dataset includes up to 60+ data points on services distributed across the globe, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The project describes data brokers as companies that collect personal data and license it to other organizations.
A GitLab project by Fraser Patterson containing EasyPeasy adapted for porn addiction and written in LaTeX. The project was created in January 2020 and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International.
Ektoplazm is a free music distribution portal and psytrance netlabel offering lossless-quality audio downloads in FLAC and WAV formats, alongside MP3. The site organizes releases by style, including progressive, full-on, downtempo, Goa and techno. Releases are distributed under Creative Commons licenses for noncommercial usage, and the project is supported by the community.
ffmprovisr is a web app that helps users generate FFmpeg commands. Each button describes a task and displays a sample command with an explanation breaking down its flags. The site has no search functionality, but all recipes can be opened for browser keyword search. It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
First Sounds is an unincorporated project focused on audio preservation. It seeks out and digitally preserves the world's oldest sound recordings, including phonautograms recorded before the phonograph. The project offers free access to its work under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons-licensed sounds for musicians and sound lovers. Users can browse, search and download sounds and sample packs, and create Collections to group sounds. The site publishes blog posts and hosts community forums for bug reports and feature requests.
GNOME Shell Extensions is a website that provides a platform for discovering, installing, and managing extensions for the GNOME Shell desktop environment. It allows users to add their own extensions and view installed ones. The site is part of The GNOME Project, which develops the GNOME desktop. It is hosted by Red Hat and built using Django and SweetTooth. Content is available under a Creative Commons CC-BY license.
A virtual museum of pure chemical elements from the periodic table, with images and information published under a Creative Commons license. It includes a periodic table linking to element pages, plus games, calculators, and a simulation.
Incompetech Music is a site offering royalty-free music by Kevin MacLeod, along with custom graph paper generators. Tracks are listed with details such as genre, tempo, length and ISRC number, and include attribution code for Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.
A collection of free PDF books covering self-help, philosophy, fiction and classics, organized by category and author. No registration or fees are required, and books are available in the public domain, under Creative Commons or shared by the author.
The Lesbian Poetry Archive is a website presenting an archive related to lesbian poetry. Its menu offers archive, resources, about and contact sections, and links to books, journals and a bibliography. The site is by Julie R. Enszer and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Linear Algebra Done Right is a textbook for a second course in linear algebra aimed at undergraduate math majors and graduate students. The fourth edition is an Open Access book under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, available free electronically in English, Chinese, Farsi, Greek, Hebrew, and Portuguese. It contains over 250 new exercises and over 70 new examples, and defers determinants to the end.