Cool places online - free books, mags, etc - add your own links

[The Straight Story]

Life Magazines online for free up to 1972:
http://books.google.com/books?id=N0EEAAAAMBAJ#all_issues_anchor

Popular science archive mags online for free:
http://www.popsci.com/archives

Free - listen to books in MP3 format (and their Etext edition as well):
http://librivox.org/

Free Ebooks:
http://manybooks.net/
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page


JFK Dallas Police department collection:
http://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/JFKDP/browse/?start=160

Online collections and datasets from the Smithsonian
(Search over 2 million records with 265,900 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from all across the Smithsonian)
http://www.si.edu/research/online-collections-datasets.htm

MIT Open courseware (1900 courses)
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

One place I use a lot - googles unclesam search:
http://www.google.com/unclesam

NOAA photo library 32,000+ images
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

America from the Great Depression to WW2, 160,000 photos:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/fsowhome.html

The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection
more than 5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/

Will add more as I find them, add your own favorites!

[amyrose2712]

1. Lectures and talks of all kinds...

Free online video courses from leading universities.

http://academicearth.org/


Free online video courses from leading universities.

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a U.S private nonprofit foundation best known for its conferences. now held in Europe and Asia as well as the U.S., devoted to what it calls "ideas worth spreading".Its lectures or TED Talks, widely disseminated on the internet, are not subject to a time limit. Wikiepedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_%28conference%29

Many short talks or various topics.

http://www.ted.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_databases

[mia]

14. Speech Bank - American Rhetoric.com

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

[The Straight Story]

2. Ohio historical markers/locations/photos, and some civil war links

http://www.ohiohistory.org/portal/news-p-012.html

Over 1100 photos from civil war:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment
Comprising 164 library items, or 359 digital images, this online presentation includes correspondence, photographs, and other materials dating between 1861 and 1865. The letters feature details of the regiment's movements, accounts of military engagements, and descriptions of the daily life of soldiers and their views of the war. Forty-six of the letters are also made available in transcription.Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers

http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/collections/tcreynolds/

[Odin2005]

3. PALAEOS: The history of life on Earth

http://www.palaeos.com

[laststeamtrain]

4. The Internet Sacred Text Archive

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Welcome to the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.

[The Straight Story]

5. Cool - thanks! (nt)

[Azooz]

6. YouTube education

Huge collection of courses

http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400

[ProgressiveEconomist]

7. The New York Public Library online (and online public libraries

The New York Public Library online (and online public libraries in most other cities)

Free internet resources open to everyone
http://legacy.www.nypl.org/databases/index.cfm?act=2&free=yes

Library resources that require a NYPL Library Card number:
http://legacy.www.nypl.org/databases/index.cfm?act=2&j=home
Dozens of newspapers and tens of thousands of full-text business, scientific, and scholarly journals and books

[WonderGrunion]

8. Free classical music MP3s (and legal)

http://www.classiccat.net/index.htm

One of my favorite sites.

[piratefish08]

9. http://www.archive.org/

http://www.archive.org/

every-damn-thing.

"The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."

movies, music, books TONS of free live concerts by hundreds of bands.

Dead music nirvana............

enjoy!

[hankthecrank]

10. k & r n/t

[hankthecrank]

11. kicked

[Bozita]

12. Terrific thread. My thanks to all.

[gmoney]

13. Wolfgang's Vault live music archive

Listen free to tons of concerts from Bill Graham venues and shows, etc.

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com

[bleever]

15. I love the smell of "free" in the morning.

K&R.

[dmr]

16. WOW! I spent hours just on your first link at Life Magazine

Just now I see that you posted other links, too! lol

Life Magazine is awesome to thumb through and read, and look at all the old advertisements. I was just reading (Dec. 1936) about the enemies of Mrs. Simpson, and looked at pictures of Queen Elizabeth and her siblings when they were children.

But everything imaginable are in those magazines! What a treasure.

Tomorrow I'll visit to visit the WWII era. Am sure that will be an all day or a several days visit.

Thanks! :hi:

[Jim Lane]

17. Wikisource

This site is run by the Wikimedia Foundation but is distinct from the Foundation's better-known project, Wikipedia. Wikisource holds texts that either have no copyright restrictions or are available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. As a result, not only can you read the texts yourself, you can use them in other works that fall within the scope of that license.

English-language Wikisource currently has more than 140,000 texts available. You can find it .