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= an index of free culture = The following resources provide free, high-quality information online in a variety of formats. Some of these resources are "free as in freedom," and others are "free as in free pizza." Here are some good places to go to find out more about copyright, the public domain, and fair use:
 * Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
 * Creative Commons

facts

 * Librarians' Internet Index
 * Acawiki
 * Nation Master
 * FactCheck.org
 * Snopes
 * Wolfram Alpha
 * Wikipedia. Let's talk.

online education

 * The Open CourseWare Consortium is a great resource for finding free education.
 * Open CourseWare at MIT is one of the most famous Open CourseWare efforts.
 * Wikiversity is the site you are on right now.

music

 * Free Music Archive
 * Open Music Archive
 * Opsound
 * Ccmixter
 * Jamendo
 * Soundcloud
 * Nodes.fm

sheet music

 * Mutopia
 * Petrucci Music Library
 * Sheet Music Links

images

 * The Internet Archive is enormous, containing records of the entire history of the Internet, every bootlegged Grateful Dead show, old TV, etc.
 * Flickr: The Commons contains many public domain or Creative Commons licensed images.
 * Seattle Municipal Archives
 * University of Washington Digital Collections

software

 * Ubuntu Linux is an operating sytstem, like Windows or Mac OSX.
 * Free Software Foundation is an excellent resource for free software for any platform.
 * Ibiblio is a very interesting record of old versions of software and other media.
 * Programs like Microsoft Office;
 * Open Office is like Microsoft Office.
 * NeoOffice is on Open Office, but better tuned for your Mac.
 * Programs like Photoshop;
 * GIMP works and looks different than PhotoShop
 * Paint.Net works and looks more like PhotoShop
 * Programs like Garageband;
 * Traverso is a multitrack audio editor
 * Audacity is a multitrack audio waveform editor, like Amadeus Pro.
 * Ardour is a multitrack audio editor
 * Lilypond is a music notation program.
 * Inkscape is like Adobe Illustrator.
 * Songbird is like iTunes.

texts

 * Project Gutenberg is the original source of free texts; the effort goes back to the very beginning of computers.
 * Open Library is the world's biggest card catalog.
 * Bartleby.com also hosts free texts.
 * so does Wikisource.
 * Wikibooks are free textbooks.
 * The Directory of Open Access Journals are scholarly journals.
 * Bookshare distributes free accessible texts for people with disabilities.