Category: Public Domain Sources

• Sources and Rights: Project Gutenberg

  Source website: Project Gutenberg Collection URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Rights statement: https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/permission.html Material available: Project Gutenberg is an online collection of free, digital books. These texts can be viewed online or downloaded as plain text or EPUB and Kindle eBook formats. Included books can be of any language, though most are in European languages, Chinese, or Tagalog. Though the collection…

• Sources and Rights: ECCO-TCP

  

  Source website: Eighteenth Century Collections Online-Text Creation Partnership (ECCO-TCP) Collection URL: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/ Rights statement: https://textcreationpartnership.org/about-the-tcp/ Material available: The ECCO-TCP consists of human-created transcriptions of eighteenth-century British books, pamphlets, and other publications from Gale Cengage’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online. The TCP is a library-led initiative to make public domain, early modern books more accessible. The works are provided as…

• Sources and Rights: HathiTrust

  

  Source website: HathiTrust Digital Library Collection URL: https://www.hathitrust.org/ Rights statement: https://www.hathitrust.org/access_use Material available: The HathiTrust Digital Library includes images of historical published books and pamphlets as well as transcriptions of their text. The transcribed text is also available for computational text research, with HathiTrust providing a number of tools. The HathiTrust is a collaboration between libraries aiming…

• Sources and Rights: Prelinger Archives

  Source website: Prelinger Archives Collection URL: https://archive.org/details/prelinger Rights statement: https://archive.org/details/prelinger?tab=about Material available: Prelinger Archives is an archive of US films, focusing on industrial, educational, advertising, and amateur ones. It chronologically focuses on films from the 1930s to the 1960s, though it spans from 1903 to the present. Originally all film, this archive reproduces its material digitally. The archive…

• Sources and Rights: NASA Commons

  

  Source website: NASA on The Commons (Flickr) Collection URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons Rights statement: https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/ Material available: NASA on the Commons features images related to the more than sixty year history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Included are images taken from spacecraft and of NASA activities on earth. They range from planets and moons to…

• Sources and Rights: J Paul Getty Museum

  

  Source website: J Paul Getty Museum Collection URL: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/ Rights statement: https://www.getty.edu/legal/copyright.html Material available: The J Paul Getty Museum website contains images of many of the museum’s collections, including paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, and photographs. The collection is focused on the European ancient period between 600 BCE and 400 CE and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.…