Editing Encyclopedia:Public domain resources (section)

===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]