Editing Encyclopedia:Public domain resources (section)

==Culture==
* [http://www.unesco.org/webworld/public_domain/public_inf.html UNESCO Public Domain Resources and Virtual Library]
* [http://www.pdcomedy.com Public Domain Comedy Heaven] A growing collection of free to download public domain video comedy. Including Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton. 

===Literature===
* [http://www.gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg] – [[Project Gutenberg]] provides over 34,000 free public domain texts.
*[http://www.classictexts.net Classictexts.net]:  Hyperlinked and searchable texts of 1600 ancient and modern public domain books on CD.  Derived from Folio Corp. e-texts with transcription and publication dates going back to the early 1990s.
* The 1911 version of the [[Encyclopædia Britannica]].
* [https://archive.org/details/Household_Cyclopedia The Household Cyclopedia]
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12342 The Nuttall Encyclopaedia], generally short entries, mostly about people and places; probably the only encyclopedia that does have entries about characters from Dickens' works, but not about fruit.
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/ ibiblio.org] is a major repository of information: "the public's library and digital archive". All collections on ibiblio are assumed to be in the public domain unless otherwise noted. Check for copyright notices on any material you wish to use.
* [http://chestofbooks.com Fully proofread Public Domain Books] – Collections of books on finance, cooking, encyclopedias, etc. mostly public domain.
*[http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?sid=ea572df9991f9af0379d042a95658221&idno=ajk6207.0001.001&xc=1&c=moa&cc=moa&g=moagrp&seq=23 A Pronouncing dictionary of Biography and Mythology] contains a large number (10000+) short [[WP:NPOV]] biographical entries, many of which could be copied and pasted to form stubs (due to its focus it contains information on many 19th and 18th century figures not yet covered in Wikipedia).
* [http://www.verselink.org/ International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]
*[http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors] – Aims to tracking all authors of books published before 1964, and some more recent authors, for determining copyright expiration
* [http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html ''A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology''] (José Ángel García Landa, University of Zaragoza, Spain)
* [http://www.ovo127.com/ OVO] New works in the public domain since 1987.  Magazine format ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]] and [[OpenOffice.org]] formats).
* [http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/174/frameset.html Brewer's Reader's Handbook], published in 1898, states that "the object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and references, whether by poets or prose writers". Contains many short articles, some on obscure topics. None of its articles cite their references. 
*[http://librivox.org LibriVox – free public domain audio books]

===Music===
* [http://www.pdinfo.com Public Domain Information Project] – Hosts information about public domain music – see [http://www.pdinfo.com/about.php information about the website]
* [http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexScores.htm/ Bach Cantatas and Other Vocal Music]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio/ Internet Archive: Open Source Audio] (most under licenses but some in the public domain)
* [http://www.cpdl.org/ The Choral Public Domain Library]:  a comprehensive library of public domain choral sheet music, downloadable in PDF, MIDI, and other formats
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/ Mutopia]: a collection of public domain sheet music
* [http://www.musopen.com/ Musopen]: free public domain music
* [http://pool.publicdomainproject.org/index.php/Main_Page Public Domain Project]: free public domain music from historical 78 rpm records 
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/music/ Project Gutenberg music section]
* [http://www.musicbrainz.org MusicBrainz]: a database of structured metadata about audio releases
* [http://icking-music-archive.org/ The Werner Icking Music Archive]
* [http://www.sheetmusicfox.com/ SheetMusicFox]
* [[scores:Main Page|The International Music Score Library Project]]:  a growing library of public domain sheet music, largely available as PDFs of scans.

=== Religion ===
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm Internet Sacred Text Archive] Online archive containing numerous etexts of books in the public domain (in the US) on religion, mythology, folklore and related topics. Copyright status of the source edition (copytext) of each work is analyzed and relevant bibliographic data, including images of title pages and versos, provided.
* [http://www.esonet.org/Application/Biblioteca/Ebooks.aspx Biblioteca Elettronica Esoterica Esonet.org]  A comprehensive resource of free esoteric ebooks, articles, electronic papers about esoterism, religions, mythologies. The site is in Italian but are present ebooks also in Spanish, French, German, etc.

'''Christianity'''
* [[Christian biblical canons|Christian Bible]] – Most modern translations are still in copyright; out-of-copyright translations may be found at [[Wikisource:Bible]]:
** [[wikisource:Biblioþēce|Biblioþēce]] – Old English Bible; only partially complete, but with some modern translations as well
** [[wikisource:Bible (Wycliffe)|John Wycliffe's Translation]] (1380s)
** [[wikisource:Bible (Tyndale)|William Tyndale's Translation]] (1526)
** [[wikisource:Bible (Bishops')|Bishops' Translation]] (1568)
** [[wikisource:Bible (Douay-Rheims)|Douay-Rheims]] (1610)
*** [http://www.sacredbible.org/ Sacredbible.org] hosts several texts and scans of versions of the Douay-Rheims Bible.
** [[wikisource:Bible (Authorized Version)|King James Bible (Authorized Version)]] (1611)
** [[wikisource:Bible (King James)|King James Bible, Oxford Standard Text]] (1769)
** [[wikisource:Bible (American Standard)|American Standard]] (1901)
** [[wikisource:Bible (World English)|World English Translation]] (in progress since 1997)
** [[wikisource:Bible (Wikisource)|Wikisource Translation]] (in progress since 2006)
* [http://www.tertullian.org The Tertullian Project]: A collection of ancient and modern texts by and about the ancient Latin Christian writer [[Tertullian]] 
* [http://www.ccel.org/ Christian Classics Ethereal Library] – The [[Christian Classics Ethereal Library]] focuses on Christian texts, especially those from the [[Early Christianity|Early Christian]] period. Note their [http://www.ccel.org/about/copyright.html copyright statement]
*[https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/ The Catholic Encyclopedia] - The [[Catholic Encyclopedia]], published in 1913. 
* Several 19th-century out-of-copyright Christian [[Bible dictionary|biblical dictionaries]] – Note that these will need to be checked for accuracy (make sure statements have not been superseded by more recent academic work) and to keep a [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]]
** ''[[Easton's Bible Dictionary]]'' (1897) – see [[Wikisource:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)]].
** ''Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary'' – has been used as a source for [[list of Biblical names]]
** ''[[Smith's Bible Dictionary]]'' (original version 1863, expanded four-volume dictionary 1893) – a large amount of useful but dated text
'''Hindu'''
* [http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap1.htm The Basic Texts of Hinduism and Veda]
* [http://www.dlshq.org/download/download.htm#practicekarma Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Hindu Philosophy]
'''Jewish'''
*[[wikisource:Bible (Jewish Publication Society 1917)|Jewish Publication Society Bible translation]] (1917) – complete [[Tanakh]] on [[Wikisource]]
*[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp The Jewish Encyclopedia] – ''[[The Jewish Encyclopedia]]'' (published between 1901 and 1906) contains over 15,000 articles (including many articles with illustrations) in 12 volumes on Jews and Judaism – It is now out-of-copyright and useful for the project, although dated (it does not cover any of the very significant events which occurred after the encyclopedia was published, such as the [[Holocaust]] and the creation and history of the [[Israel|State of Israel]])

'''Islam'''
* [http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/ Three parallel texts of the Qur'an] – translations of the [[Qur'an]] hosted by the [[Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement]] at the [[University of Southern California]]

'''Occult'''
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=e8BZAAAAMAAJ Copy] on [[Google Books]], downloadable as PDF, of 1920 edition of [[Lewis Spence|Lewis Spence's]] ''[[An Encyclopaedia of Occultism]]''