16colo.rs is an archive of ANSI and ASCII art. Preserving artpacks released through the BBS underground artscene since the early 1990s until the present.
Academics Torrents was established to meet the demands of science in the age of big data. It utilizes a scalable BitTorrent platform that distributes the burden of hosting data, eliminating the risk of data loss due to the rise and fall of dataset hosting providers.
A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic.
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
The Codex Atlanticus is the largest existing collection of original drawings and text by Leonardo da Vinci and is preserved at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. It is the result of the collection and organisation of 1,119 pages of Leonardo’s writings by sculptor Pompeo Leoni between the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century.
Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. DOAJ is committed to keeping its services free of charge, including being indexed, and its data freely available.
Distributed Denial of Secrets archives and publishes hacked and leaked documents in the public interest.
Problems or conjectures posed (either individually or jointly with others) by the great mathematician Paul Erdős who posed many challenging questions that have served as a benchmark of progress in many diverse fields of mathematics, particularly combinatorics and number theory.
Flash fiction is a short story genre that focuses on brevity. Its aim is to convey a powerful tale in as few words as possible. At Story Shack we judge anything under 1.000 words to be flash fiction, and are proud of the high quality work by around 400 authors and over 50 illustrators.
governmentattic.org provides electronic copies of thousands of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Fascinating historical documents, reports on items in the news, oddities and fun stuff and government bloopers, they're all here.
Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music and more.
Lyrics Translate is the world's largest repository of lyrics translations of songs and music videos.
Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages. You can use it to learn about languages, to learn alphabets and other writing systems, and to learn phrases, numbers and other things in many languages. There is also advice on how to learn languages.
The Open Poetry Project is building an archive of public domain poetry to ensure that the world's heritage of verse remains freely accessible to all. This project is driven by the belief that poetry belongs to everyone. Its mission is to create the most accessible, searchable, and enjoyable collection of poetry in the public domain—so that anyone, anywhere, can explore the beauty of words, unbound.
Out-of-Print Archive is a group of people dedicated to preserving a part
of classic gaming that seems to be overlooked most of the time. Namely classic video game magazines.
The goal of Sci-Hub is to provide free and unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge. Sci-Hub started as a tool for providing quick access to articles from scientific journals. Now Sci-Hub has grown a database of 88M research articles and books - freely accessible for anyone to read and download.
SciELO is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals. SciELO was created to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries and provides an efficient way to increase visibility and access to scientific literature.
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.
The Webcomic List presents a daily list of over 26700 updated web comics and online comics from all over the web.
The goal of The World War II Database is to offer interesting and useful information about WW2.
Wiktionary, a collaborative multilingual dictionary, aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English. Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices.
This site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them.