Royalty Free Textual Materials


General Business & Management Computer Sciences Education Health Sciences
Humanities Mathematics Natural Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences

                          
              
General
Internet Archive - Text http://www.archive.org/details/texts

Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/
This site allows you to locate material and also to verify whether a specific work is really in the public domain.

Public Domain Texts http://www.csun.edu/~vceed002/ref/reference/public_domain_text.html
This Mega site provides links to various libraries of downloadable public domain texts.

University of Michigan's HTI public domain works http://www.hti.umich.edu/p/pd-modeng/
Publically available Modern English Collection of full text novels, stories and folk tales.

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Business & Management (Management, Accounting, Human Resources, etc.)
NONE.

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Computer Sciences (Computer Programming, Web Design, Software, etc.)
The Jargon File http://catb.org/jargon/
A public domain version of The New Hacker's Dictionary.
Copyright Information: http://catb.org/jargon/quoting.html

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Education (Elementary, Secondary, Postsecondary, Special, etc.)
Aesop's Fables http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/p/pd-modeng/pd-modeng-idx?type=header&id=AesopFable
This site provides direct access to public domain text of Aesop's Fables.
Copyright Information: All items are in the public domain; therefore, all items may be copied freely.

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Health Sciences (Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Nutrition, Health, etc.)
Bookshelf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books
A growing collection of biomedical books from National Center for Biotechnology Health (NCBI), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Copyright Information: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/disclaimer.html

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Humanities (Art, Literature, English, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Music, History, etc.)
Aesop's Fables http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/p/pd-modeng/pd-modeng-idx?type=header&id=AesopFable
This site provides direct access to public domain text of Aesop's Fables.
Copyright Information: All items are in the public domain; therefore, all items may be copied freely.

Choral Public Domain Library http://www.cpdl.org/
A large collection of musical scores in the public domain.  Be sure to read the Copyright information.
Copyright Information: http://www.cpdl.org/index.php?name=FAQ&id_cat=5


Christian Classics Ethereal Library http://www.ccel.org/
Copyright Information: All items are believed to be in the public domain; therefore, all items may be copied freely.


Complete Works of William Shakespeare http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
Copyright Information: The homepage states that plays have been placed in the public domain.

Historic American Sheet Music http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
A collection of  19th and 20th Century Sheet Music from Duke University.
Copyright Information: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/copyright.html

Knowledgerush http://www.knowledgerush.com/Books.htm
Copyright Information and Terms of Use: http://www.knowledgerush.com/privacy.htm

LION - Literature Online
One of the CSS Library's full-text databases that contains more than 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from American and English Literature.  Please contact the Library for more details.


Mutopia Project http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
A growing collection of sheet music that are free to download, print, distribute, and perform.
Legal Issues: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/legal.html

Project Wittenberg http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html
A listing of texts by Martin Luther and those important to Lutheranism.

Information about Project Wittenberg  & Copyright: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/about-wittenberg.txt

Wikisource http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page:English
A collection of primary source texts.
Copyright Information: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

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Mathematics (Statistics, Calculus, Algebra, etc.)
Wikibooks: Mathematics Bookshelf http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mathematics_bookshelf
A collection of textbooks that can be used or edited by anyone.  Click here to learn more about acceptable content.
Copyright Information: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

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Natural Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physiology, Genetics, Microbiology, etc.)
National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov/publications/
A collection of publications produced by the National Science Foundation.
Copyright Information: http://www.nsf.gov/policies/reuse.jsp

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Physical Sciences (Geology, Physics, Astronomy, etc.)
Physics for Free http://www.physicsforfree.com/
A collection of 3 free physics textbooks written by Emeritus Professor Frank Firk, former Chairman of the Department of Physics, Yale University.

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