On this page you will find links to data archives from various countries. These archives contain data that was gathered and saved for the public good.
Topics: Books Climate Culture Gaming Government Health History Law Science Technology War World
Data types: Text Images Videos Software
Health Text
101 Cookbooks
Description:
101 Cookbooks is a food blog from California that archived thousands of healthy recipes, made available for free.
- www.101cookbooks.com/archives.html - List of recipes.
Science Text
Academic Torrents
Description:
Making over 127.15TB of research data available, this site provides a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds.
- academictorrents.com - List of torrents.
War Text Images Videos
Airwars
Description:
Airwars is a not-for-profit transparency watchdog which tracks, assesses, archives and investigates civilian harm claims in conflict-affected nations. Founded in 2014 they are today a leading authority on conflict violence as it affects civilian communities.
- airwars.org - Home page.
- youtube.com/@airwarsorg - Videos channel.
Books Science History Text
Anna's Archive
Description:
Described as the largest truly open library in human history. This site mirrors Sci-Hub and LibGen. They also scrape and open-source Z-Lib, DuXiu, and more. Currently hosting over 42 million books, 98 million papers, preserved forever. All their code and data are completely open source.
- annas-archive.org - Main web page.
- annas-archive.se - Mirror site.
- annas-archive.li - Mirror site.
Science Text History
Archaeology Data Service
Description:
ADS is the leading accredited repository in the UK for archaeology and historic environment data, with over 25 years of experience supporting research, learning and teaching with free, high quality and dependable digital resources.
- archaeologydataservice.ac.uk - Home page.
- archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archive - List of archives.
World Text
Archive.today
Description:
Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages! It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page.
- archive.today - The web site archives.
Images Culture Videos
Art UK
Description:
Art UK brings together art from over 3,400 British institutions in one of the UK's biggest-ever arts partnerships. It shows over 600,000 works by over 60,000 artists and is growing all the time.
- artuk.org - Home page.
- www.youtube.com/@ArtUKdotorg - Videos channel.
Science Text
arXiv
Description:
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. arXiv is a community of volunteer authors, readers, moderators, advisory board members, supporting members, donors, and third-party collaborators that are supported by the staff at Cornell University.
- arxiv.org - Browse articles.
History Law Text
Avalon Project
Description:
The Avalon Project by Yale University collects documents in law, history and diplomacy. It provides the full text of important documents from 4,000 BCE to today.
- avalon.law.yale.edu - Home page.
World Technology Text Images Science
AWS Data Exchange
Description:
AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find datasets made publicly available through AWS services. Browse available data and learn how to register your own datasets.
- aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?trk=868d... - List of all Data Exchange applications.
- aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-zxtb4t54iqj... - A corpus of web crawl data composed of over 50 billion web pages.
- aws.amazon.com/earth - Registry of Earth related datasets.
- www.archives.gov/developer/national-archives-catal... - National Archives Catalog on the AWS Registry of Open Data.
Government Health Climate Science Text
CAFE
Description:
The Convene-Accelerate-Foster-Expand (CAFE) site is an open collection designed to support and enhance global research initiatives focused on understanding and mitigating the health impacts of climate change. It's hosted by Harvard University, Boston University and contains hundreds of datasets, mostly from US Gov web sites.
- dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/CAFE - Index of CAFE datasets.
Government Law Text
Caselaw Access Project
Description:
The Caselaw Access Project (CAP) scanned the entirety of the Harvard Law School Library's physical collection of American case law and made it machine-readable in a consistent format available online. To facilitate that agreement, the Library Innovation Lab (LIL) maintained the case.law website as the primary access point for the data. CAP includes all official, book-published state and federal United States case law through 2020, every volume or case designated as an official report of decisions by a court within the United States.
- case.law/caselaw - List of law volumes per state.
Science Text Software Videos
CERN Open Data
Description:
Explore more than five petabytes of open data from particle physics on this CERN web site.
- opendata.cern.ch - Open Data web site.
- www.youtube.com/@CERN - Videos channel.
History Text Images Videos War
Chartlann Mhileata Military Archives
Description:
The Military Archives offers a diverse range of collections documenting Ireland's military history, including pensions and historical documents.
- www.militaryarchives.ie/en/online-collections - Browse the collections.
Science Text Videos
ChemSpider
Description:
A free chemical structure database providing access to millions of chemical structures and properties, hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London.
- www.chemspider.com - Search engine.
- www.youtube.com/@royalsocietyofchemistry - Videos channel.
Technology Software Images Videos
CivitAI
Description:
CivitAI is an online platform and marketplace for generative AI content, primarily focused on AI-generated images and models.
- civitai.com - Home page.
- civitaiarchive.com - NSFW models archive site.
- diffusionarc.com - Alternative database of images models.
- civitasbay.org - List of CivitAI torrents.
- miyukiai.com - Backup site.
- www.youtube.com/@civitai - Videos channel.
Climate Images Videos Software Text
Climate Data Store
Description:
The C3S Climate Data Store (CDS) is a one-stop shop for information about the climate: past, present and future. It provides easy access to a wide range of climate datasets via a searchable catalogue.
- cds.climate.copernicus.eu/#!/home - List of datasets.
- www.youtube.com/@CopernicusECMWF - Videos channel.
Government Climate Text
Climate Mirror Project
Description:
The Climate Mirror Project is trying to mirror and safely archive US Gov websites and datasets related to climate, climate change, and global warming. It provides mirrors of official NOAA and other government web sites.
- climate.daknob.net - List of datasets and torrents.
World Text
Common Crawl
Description:
Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone. They believe that everyone should have the opportunity to indulge their curiosities, analyze the world, and pursue brilliant ideas. The latest crawl contains over 2.74 billion web pages.
- commoncrawl.org - Home page.
Government Technology Text Software
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
Description:
The CVE program identifies, defines, and catalogs publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. There are currently over 274,000 CVE Records accessible through the program. While it depends on US Government funding, there are several alternative databases also available.
- www.cve.org - Main CVE website.
- github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5 - Official list of all CVEs.
- kevintel.com - Feed of KEVs from multiple sources.
- vulnerability.circl.lu - Main vulnerability lookup site.
- www.vulnerability-lookup.org - Vulnerability lookup software.
- gcve.eu - Decentralized CVE alternative.
- euvd.enisa.europa.eu - EU vulnerability database.
- www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories - Canadian vulnerability database.
- seclists.org - Archive of popular cybersecurity mailing lists.
- infosec.exchange - Mastodon community surrounding InfoSec.
Gaming Software
Console Mods
Description:
This wiki contains information on game console modding and game dumping tools.
- consolemods.org - Console mods wiki
- edump.org - Mod dumping wiki
World History Text
Cross-National Time-Series Data
Description:
CNTS provides more than 200 years of annual data from 1815 onward, including 196 demographic, political, legislative, economic and social science variables.
- www.cntsdata.com - List of databanks.
History Text Images Culture
Cultural Japan
Description:
This site aims to collect information related to Japanese culture published in museums, libraries, etc. around the world, and to provide them with a common and reusable format.
- cultural.jp/en - Home page.
World Images History
Curationist
Description:
Curationist is a free online resource that brings together arts and culture communities to find, share, collaborate, and reimagine cultural narratives. Since its launch in 2022, Curationist enables global users to search more than 4.4 million images of works from the open access collections of museums and archives worldwide.
- www.curationist.org - Home page.
Culture World Text Images
CURIOSity Digital Collections
Description:
CURIOSity Is the online portal of Harvard Library. It provides success to thousands of art pieces, maps, books, photographs and more.
- curiosity.lib.harvard.edu - List of collections.
Climate Science Text Images
Data Basin
Description:
Data Basin is a science-based mapping and analysis platform that supports learning, research, and sustainable environmental stewardship. It publishes maps, datasets, visualizations, drawings, & analyses.
- databasin.org - Home page.
Government
Data Liberation Project
Description:
The Data Liberation Project is an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate US Gov datasets of public interest.
- www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets - List of published datasets.
Government Text
Data Lumos
Description:
DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos. The site is hosted by the University of Michigan.
- www.datalumos.org/datalumos/search/studies - List of datasets.
Government Text
Data Rescue Project
Description:
The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations focusing on rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk. It provides resources, collections of datasets and news updates.
- www.datarescueproject.org - Home page.
- www.datarescueproject.org/resources - List of resources.
- baserow.datarescueproject.org/public/grid/Nt_M6err... - List of datasets.
Images World
David Rumsey Map Collection
Description:
The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 200,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.
- www.davidrumsey.com - Home page.
Government Text
Deportation Data Project
Description:
The Deportation Data Project collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets. We expect these datasets to be used by journalists, researchers, lawyers, and policymakers.
- deportationdata.org - Home page.
- deportationdata.org/data.html - List of datasets.
Books Images
Digital Comic Museum
Description:
The Digital Comic Museum claims to be the best site for downloading FREE public domain Golden Age Comics.
- digitalcomicmuseum.com - Home page.
History Books Text Videos
Digital Public Library of America
Description:
The DPLA highlights millions of items from libraries, archives and museums across the United States, organized into easy-to-navigate topics through a single catalog.
- dp.la - Home page.
- ebooks.dp.la/the-banned-book-club - The banned books club.
- www.youtube.com/@digpublib - Videos channel.
Images Text History Science
DigitalCommons@UNO
Description:
DigitalCommons@UNO is an institutional repository with the goal of collecting and making visible the intellectual output of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It contains collections about science, technology, historical records, scanned newspapers, community engagement, conferences and events, public safety, and much more.
- digitalcommons.unomaha.edu - Home page.
- digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/communities.html - List of collections.
Gaming Software
DOS Zone
Description:
Enjoy classic games completely free and without ads on dos.zone! They play in your browser without the need to download anything.
- dos.zone - Home page.
Technology Software
Drivers Collection
Description:
Drivers Collection is one of largest free web library of device drivers for computer hardware. It contains over 6 million drivers from various hardware vendors.
- driverscollection.com - Drivers home page.
- web.archive.org/web/20211220061945/http://driverpa... - Torrent links for driver packs.
Science Text
Dryad
Description:
Dryad is an open data publishing platform and a community committed to the open availability and routine re-use of all research data. Their multi-stakeholder community of academic and research institutions, research funders, scholarly societies and publishers is committed to leading in best practices for open data sharing and reuse.
- datadryad.org/stash - Dryad datasets.
Government Text
End-of-Term web archive
Description:
The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. The End of Term Web Archive contains federal government websites (.gov, .mil, etc) in the Legislative, Executive, or Judicial branches of the government.
- eotarchive.org - EOT web archive.
History Images Text Videos
Europeana
Description:
The Europeana website provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with access to Europe's digital cultural heritage. It contains thousands of items related to archaeology, art, newspapers, fashion, music, photography and more.
- www.europeana.eu/en - Home page.
- www.europeana.eu/en/themes - List of collections.
- www.youtube.com/@EuropeanaEU - Videos channel.
Technology Software
Files dot Dog
Description:
This site contains a large collection of Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) files, along with random other files.
- files.dog - Files archive.
Gaming Software
Flashpoint
Description:
Flashpoint provides a frontend player software and a database of over 200,000 Flash games and animations, preserved from the early web.
- flashpointarchive.org - Home page.
- flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database - Database.
History Images
Fortepan
Description:
Fortepan is a copyright-free and community-based photo archive with over 200,000 Hungarian photographs available for anyone to browse and download in high-resolution, free of charge.
- fortepan.hu/en - Home page.
- fortepan.hu/en/photo-uploads - All collections.
- fortepan.us - US clone.
Science Text Images
Free GIS Data
Description:
This page contains a categorized list of links to over 500 sites providing freely available geographic datasets, all ready for loading into a Geographic Information System (GIS).
- freegisdata.rtwilson.com - Archives listing.
Gaming Images Videos Software
Games Database
Description:
Games Database is one of the biggest source for manuals, videos, music and artwork. The site provides over 32k videos, 8k music files, 14k manuals, 5k game adverts, 822 TV commercials for 126 systems.
- www.gamesdatabase.org - Main web site.
World History Text Videos
GDELT
Description:
GDELT is the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open database of human society ever created. Creating a platform that monitors the world's news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every day and that stretches back to January 1, 1979 through present day.
- www.gdeltproject.org - Home page.
- www.gdeltproject.org/data.html#rawdatafiles - List of datasets.
- www.youtube.com/@gdeltproject - Videos channel.
Science Text
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Description:
GBIF (the Global Biodiversity Information Facility) is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth. It provides access to over 110,000 datasets.
- www.gbif.org - Main web site.
Images World History
Google News Archive
Description:
Google News Archive is an extension of Google News providing free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. The site covers hundreds of individual publications, with thousands of scanned pages since the 18th century, with full text search.
- news.google.com/newspapers - List of archived newspapers.
History Text Images Videos
Historic Environment Scotland
Description:
Historic Environment Scotland is the lead public body established to investigate, care for and promote Scotland’s historic environment, managing over 45,000 objects in its collections.
- www.historicenvironment.scot - Home page.
- www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-research... - Online exhibitions.
- www.trove.scot/explore/objects?rsrc=historicenviro... - Database of objects.
- www.youtube.com/@HistoricEnvironmentScotland - Videos channel.
Technology Software
Hugging Face
Description:
Hugging Face is the platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications. It contains the largest collection of open source AI models and focuses on machine learning tasks.
- huggingface.co - Main web page.
Technology Software
Ibiblio
Description:
Ibiblio (then called SunSITE) began mirroring open source software in 1992, and was one of only three such repositories available on the internet. Now almost 30 years later mirroring and open source software has evolved.
- www.ibiblio.org - Main web page.
- www.ibiblio.org/catalog/exhibits/show/softwaremirr... - List of mirrored projects.
Government Text
ICPSR
Description:
ICPSR is research science data and resources on topics like social media, politics, economics, social sciences, government, GIS, & more. ICPSR is part of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
- www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages - Main web page.
- www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/ICPSR/access/subject... - List of datasets.
Science Text
INSDC
Description:
The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) archives nucleotide sequence data, from raw to assembled and annotated sequences, from around the world.
- www.insdc.org - Link to archival sites.
Technology Software
Interesting DOS Programs
Description:
This is an archive of various DOS software and other DOS related websites. Most are freeware but a few are shareware and commercial programs.
- dosprograms.info.tt - Home page.
Technology World Text Images Videos Software
Internet Archive
Description:
The Internet Archive is an American non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials.
- archive.org - The main archive web site.
- web.archive.org - The Wayback Machine.
- ww.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.a... - Bibalex mirror of the Wayback Machine.
- archive-it.org - Archive-it collections.
Science Health World Text
IPUMS
Description:
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge.
- www.ipums.org - List of IPUMS datasets.
History Text Images
Japan Disasters Archive
Description:
A project of Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA) collects archived materials from all over the web, including websites, images, video, audio, news articles, individual testimonials, tweets, and other content.
- jdarchive.org/en - Home page.
- jdarchive.org/en/collectionsearch - List of collections.
World Books History Text Images
JSTOR
Description:
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
- www.jstor.org - JSTOR home page.
- www.jstor.org/site/collection-list - All collections.
- www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives - South Asia Open Archives.
- www.jstor.org/site/collection-list/?coltypeefq=UFV... - Artstor art collection.
Technology World Science Text
Kaggle
Description:
Kaggle is one of the largest collection of datasets, mostly focusing on statistics, science, world affairs and technology. It contains 430K high-quality public datasets. Everything from avocado prices to video game sales.
- www.kaggle.com/datasets - List of Kaggle datasets.
Gaming Software Videos
Keitai Game Preservation
Description:
This wiki is dedicated to cataloging games from Japanese Feature Phones (keitai), pre-Android/iPhone mobile devices released in Japan. (e.g. i-Mode game, i-Appli game, EZweb game, S!Appli game). They also provide information and support for preserving Japanese feature phone games.
- keitaiwiki.com - Keitai wiki
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1VJw_yYI1U - Documentary on Lessons from Keitai Game Preservation
Gaming Text Images
Kirkland's Manual Labor
Description:
This site contains thousands of video gaming manuals for retro consoles such as N64, SNES, GameBoy, and more.
- www.videogamemanual.com - Home page.
Technology World Science Books Text Software
Kiwix
Description:
3 billion people have no or little access to internet. This can be because of costs, lack of infrastructure, or outright censorship. Kiwix provides offline versions of popular web sites like Wikipedia, Wikibooks and Project Gutenberg.
- kiwix.org/en - Home page.
- kiwix.org/en/applications - List of offline applications.
- library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng - Library of content for Kiwix.
Books Text Images
Library Genesis
Description:
Library Genesis (LibGen) is the largest free library in history, giving access to 84 million scholarly journal articles, 6.6 million academic and general interest books, 2.2 million comics and 381 thousand magazines.
- libgen.li - Home page.
Science Books Text
LibreTexts
Description:
LibreTexts is the adaptable, user-friendly open education resource platform that educators trust for creating, customizing, and sharing accessible, interactive textbooks, adaptive homework, and ancillary materials. We collaborate with individuals and organizations to champion open education initiatives, support institutional publishing programs, drive curriculum development projects, and more. The LibreText Commons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 16 libraries in the LibreVerse in one convenient location.
- libretexts.org - Project home page.
- commons.libretexts.org - Index of textbooks.
Books Images
MangaDex
Description:
MangaDex is one of many websites dedicated to archiving scanned mangas and other Asian comic books. These sites provide thousands of titles to read for free, compiled by volunteers.
- mangadex.org - MangaDex web site.
- mangakatana.com - Manga Katana web site.
- bato.to - Bato web site.
- www.mangahere.cc - MangaHere web site.
- weebcentral.com - Weeb Central web site.
World Text
Mirror Service
Description:
The UK Mirror Service provides a collection of mirrors of FTP, web and rsync sites of interest to academic users. The service is provided by the University of Kent's School Of Computing.
- ww.mirrorservice.org/sites - List of mirrored sites.
History Text Images Videos
Montreal Archives
Description:
The site of the Montreal Archives contains the greatest collection of historical documents and photographs about Montreal's history, including the history of early Canadian life.
- archivesdemontreal.com - Home page.
- archivesdemontreal.com/expositions-virtuelles - Virtual expositions.
- www.flickr.com/photos/archivesmontreal/albums - Photo albums.
- www.youtube.com/@ArchivesMtl - Videos channel.
Technology History Text Images Videos
Museum of Obsolete Media
Description:
A unique online museum of physical media formats showcasing developments in audio, video, film and data storage, the Museum preserves the memory of those objects that held our memories, and every format listed in the Museum is represented by at least one example in the collection.
- obsoletemedia.org - Museum collection.
Videos War History
Museum of Stolen Art
Description:
The museum is a virtual 3D space exhibiting digital copies of Ukrainian artworks which were stolen, destroyed or disappeared as a result of the full-scale invasion of Russia.
- www.museumofstolen.art/en - Portal page.
Gaming Software
My Abandonedware
Description:
On My abandonware you can download all the old video games from 1965 to 2012 for free. You can play Pacman, Arkanoid, Tetris, Galaxian, Alter Ego, or Blackthorne, Civilization, Sim City, Prince of Persia, Xenon 2, King's quest, Ultima, Kyrandia, The Incredible Machine, Another World, Test Drive, Flashback, Lemmings and more. For each game, they offer all related information included publication year, publisher, developer, size of the game, language, review of the game, instructions to play, the game manual and, of course, the game archive that you can download for free.
- www.myabandonware.com - Index of software.
Culture Text Images
My Figure Collection
Description:
MyFigureCollection.net is a service for Japanese pop-culture (anime, manga, video-games, etc.) goods (figures, artbooks, CDs, cups, collectibles, dakimakura, etc.) collectors. Join our friendly community for free and start listing and managing your collection online: databases, pictures, calendar, budget manager, encyclopedia and much more.
- myfigurecollection.net - Home page.
World Government Text Images Videos
National Archives
Description:
The National Archives is a common term to designate a government funded archival institution focused on cataloging and making available historically significant works from the country in question, usually through government mandated processes.
- www.archives.gov - US National Archives.
- library-archives.canada.ca/eng - Library and Archives Canada.
- www.nationalarchives.gov.uk - UK National Archives.
- www.naa.gov.au - National Archives of Australia.
- www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr - Archives Nationales de France.
- www.ndl.go.jp/en - National Diet Library, Japan.
- www.nationaalarchief.nl - Nationaal Archief.
- en.rigsarkivet.dk - Rigsarkivet.
- www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en - National Library of Finland.
- www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/?lang=en - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.
Science Text
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Description:
NCBI is the one-stop shop for finding, browsing, and downloading genomic data.
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets - Search datasets.
Videos Culture
National Film Board of Canada
Description:
In addition to being a public producer and distributor of Canadian content, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is the caretaker of over 7,000 productions available for free for personal use.
- www.nfb.ca - Home page.
- www.youtube.com/@nfb - Videos channel.
Government Technology Text War
National Security Archive
Description:
Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents.
- nsarchive.gwu.edu - Home page.
Gaming Software Videos
Nexus Mods
Description:
Nexus Mods is one of several gaming mods archives, hosting over 300,000 mods for over 3,500 PC games. Several other sites also provide smaller archives of gaming mods.
- www.nexusmods.com - Nexus Mods web site.
- www.moddb.com - Mod DB web site.
- www.curseforge.com - Curse Forge web site.
- www.loverslab.com - Adults mods site.
- ayakamods.cc - Alternative mods site.
- www.youtube.com/@NexusModsOfficial - Videos channel.
Gaming Software
Old Games
Description:
Old-Games.com provides 10,000+ old PC games free to download, along with screenshots and descriptions.
- www.old-games.com - Main web site.
World Images
Old Maps Online
Description:
Browse historical places and search for old maps with timeline, through a web or mobile app.
- www.oldmapsonline.org - Home page.
World Culture Videos
Open Culture
Description:
Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Here, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more.
- www.openculture.com - Home page.
- www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses - List of free classes.
Books Text
Open Library
Description:
Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive and provides access to thousands of books, out of print and otherwise. It provides an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
- openlibrary.org - Open Library home page.
- openlibrary.org/collections/banned-books - Banned books collection.
Climate Science Text
OpenEI
Description:
The Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) enables research, collaboration, and transparency by providing open access to energy data and information. The OpenEI Data Lake is a centralized repository of datasets aggregated from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Programs, Offices, and National Laboratories. It provides links to over 4.19 PB of data.
- data.openei.org/data_lakes#Data-Lakes-Datasets - Links to datasets.
Technology Software
OpenML
Description:
OpenML is an open platform for sharing datasets, algorithms, and experiments. It contains thousands of datasets and machine learning tasks running openly.
- www.openml.org - Home page.
Technology Text Images War
OSINT Ukraine
Description:
This is a public repository of tools, resources and an archive of Telegram messages related to the war in Ukraine. Note that some of the media on the site are very graphic.
- osintukraine.com - OSINT Ukraine home page.
- ukraine.osintukraine.com - Repository of Telegram messages.
World Text Images
Our World in Data
Description:
Our World in Data is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a non-profit organization providing analysis from thousands of researchers around the world about poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
- ourworldindata.org - Main page.
- ourworldindata.org/data - Data catalog.
Climate Science Text Images
Pangea
Description:
The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. PANGAEA is open to any project, institution, or individual scientist to use or to archive and publish data.
- pangaea.de - List of datasets.
Books Text
Project Gutenberg
Description:
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Everything from Project Gutenberg is gratis, libre, and completely without cost to readers. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF) is the non-profit corporation that oversees operation of the project.
- www.gutenberg.org - The main project web site.
- ww.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/doc... - Mirror site.
Climate Science Government Text
Public Environmental Data Project
Description:
The Public Environmental Data Project is committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. They are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. Several datasets are available on their site.
- screening-tools.com - The screening tools site.
Government Text
Publications Office of the European Union
Description:
The Publications Office of the European Union is the official provider of publishing services to all EU institutions, bodies and agencies. As such, it is the central point of access to EU law, and also to publications, data, research results, procurement notices and other official information.
- op.europa.eu/en/home - Home page.
- data.europa.eu/en - European Data.
- eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en - EU-Lex - Access law and treaty information.
- cordis.europa.eu - Cordis - EU research and development projects.
- op.europa.eu/en/web/general-publications/publicati... - List of EU publications.
Technology History Text Images
Radio Museum
Description:
The radio museum contains a vast library of data about radio devices. It contains over 350K radio models, 2.8M pictures including 1M schematics, and 79K tubes/semiconductors.
- www.radiomuseum.org - Collection of radio data.
Books Images
Read All Comics
Description:
Read All Comics provides a web interface to read thousands of comics for free.
- readallcomics.com - Home page.
Books Gaming Images
RetroMags
Description:
This site indexes and makes available for free download thousands of retro gaming magazines and strategy guides from 10 years ago and earlier.
- www.retromags.com - Home page.
Technology Text Software Videos
SANS Institute
Description:
The SANS institute provides a number of cybersecurity resources including training, tools, posters, videos, publications and more.
- www.sans.org - Home page.
- www.sans.org/security-resources - List of security resources.
- www.youtube.com/@SANSInstitute - Videos channel.
Science Books Text
Sci-Hub
Description:
Sci-Hub started as a tool for providing quick access to articles from scientific journals - such articles are the main medium of communication of scientific knowledge today. Now Sci-Hub has grown a database of over 88 millions research articles and books freely accessible for anyone to read and download.
- www.sci-hub.st - Sci-Hub mirror site.
- www.sci-hub.se - Sci-Hub mirror site.
- www.sci-hub.ru - Sci-Hub mirror site.
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SciOp
Description:
SciOp is the curated catalog/index of Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC), an alternative infrastructure for archival and dissemination of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge in the form of a federated BitTorrent tracker.
- sciop.net - Home page.
- sciop.net/datasets - List of datasets.
History Text Images
SHAFR
Description:
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations maintains a large list of Asian resources including newspaper scans, private collections, cultural archives and more.
- www.shafr.org/asia-archives-resources - Asia archives.
Technology Text
Sigma AI
Description:
Sigma AI provides a list of open AI related datasets from various other sites.
- sigma.ai/open-datasets - List of datasets.
Images World History Videos
Smithsonian Open Access
Description:
On the Smithsonian Open Access web site, you can download, share, and reuse more than 5.1 million 2D and 3D digital items from their collections.
- www.si.edu/openaccess - Search collections.
- www.youtube.com/@smithsonian - Videos channel.
Technology Software Videos
Software Heritage
Description:
The long term goal of the Software Heritage initiative is to collect all publicly available software in source code form together with its development history, replicate it massively to ensure its preservation, and share it with everyone who needs it. The Software Heritage archive is growing over time as they crawl new source code from software projects and development forges.
- archive.softwareheritage.org - Source files archive.
- www.youtube.com/@softwareheritage4978 - Videos channel.
Climate Science Government Text Software
Source COOP
Description:
Source Cooperative is a data publishing utility that allows trusted organizations and individuals to share data using standard HTTP methods. It contains large data collections and mirrors of various sites, mostly centered around science, government and climate.
- source.coop - List of projects.
- source.coop/repositories/harvard-lil/gov-data/desc... - Full mirror of data.gov.
- github.com/harvard-lil/data-vault - Scripts used to scrape data.gov.
Technology Text Software
TextFiles
Description:
TEXTFILES.COM has been online for nearly 25 years providing text files, focusing mostly on the years 1980-1995.
- extfiles.com - Collection of text files.
- d.textfiles.com/directory.html - Collection of shareware files.
Gaming Images Videos Software
The Cutting Room Floor
Description:
The Cutting Room Floor is a site dedicated to unearthing and researching unused and cut content from video games. From debug menus, to unused music, graphics, enemies, and levels.
- tcrf.net - Home page.
Technology Text Images
The Eye
Description:
The Eye is a very large archive of files of all types covering decades. It provides archives of various sub-reddits, Telegram channels, AI models, books, website crawls, 3D models, images and more.
- the-eye.eu - Home page.
- beta.the-eye.eu/public - Files directory.
Gaming Text Images Software
The Old Computer
Description:
Home to the largest collection of roms and emulators anywhere on the web with over 500,000 ROMs and Emulators for every major computer, console, arcade machine, pinball table and mobile device. Box Scans, Manuals, Magazines and a 179,000+ strong user community.
- www.theoldcomputer.com - Home page.
Technology Text Software
The Unix Heritage
Description:
The Unix Heritage Society's aims include the preservation and maintenance of historical and non-mainstream UNIX systems; the further development of existing UNIX systems; and the continual fostering of the Unix community spirit. They host historical Unix distribution and packages available for download.
- www.tuhs.org - Heritage home page.
- wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=source:unix_archive - Unix archive wiki.
- www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl - Unix source code.
Government Text Images Videos
UK Web Archive
Description:
UKWA captures, preserves and makes accessible UK central government information published on the web. The Web Archive includes videos, tweets, images and websites dating from 1996 to the present day.
- www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive - Home page.
World Text Images
United Nations Digital Library
Description:
The Digital Library is the central search engine to access millions of records from all UN bodies and agencies, including letters, reports, maps, speeches, voting data, and more.
- digitallibrary.un.org/?ln=en - Search the data.
World Text War
Uppsala Conflict Data Program
Description:
The Uppsala Conflic Data Program (UCDP) is the world's largest collection of wartime and organized violence data, covering over 40 years of conflicts, based at Uppsala University in Sweden and in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo.
- ucdp.uu.se - Main UCDP page.
- www.prio.org - Peace Research Institute.
Climate Images
US Drought Monitor
Description:
The U.S. Drought Monitor provides climate maps weekly since 1999. It's produced jointly by the NDMC, NOAA and USDA.
- droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspx - Maps archive.
World Images Government Videos
US Geological Survey
Description:
USGS is a US governmental agency providing services and resources around the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The site provides access to images and videos related to maps, topographic surveys and more.
- www.usgs.gov - Home page.
- www.usgs.gov/programs/national-geospatial-program/... - Historical maps collection.
- www.youtube.com/@usgs - Videos channel.
Technology Images Videos
Web Design Museum
Description:
The Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of old websites, mobile apps and software from 1990s to mid-00s.
- www.webdesignmuseum.org - Home page.
World Text
Wikipedia
Description:
Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. It is the largest and most-read reference work in history. Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - English Wikipedia home page.
- www.wikipedia.org - Wikipedia in other languages.
History World Text Images
Wilson Center Digital Archive
Description:
Gain critical insights into international history and policy through declassified documents from governments, organizations, and individuals worldwide, curated by the Wilson Center.
- digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org - Main page.
Gaming Technology
WinWorld
Description:
WinWorld is an online museum created in 2003 dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software. It offers information, media and downloads for a wide variety of computers and operating systems. Get classic operating systems, applications, games and betas for every platform from PC to Mac to Amiga, right here from the software library on WinWorld.
- winworldpc.com/home - The WinWorld library.
World Government Text Images Videos
World Bank Open Data
Description:
The World Bank Open Data portal provides free and open access to global development data, mostly focusing on economic datasets.
- data.worldbank.org - Data portal.
- www.youtube.com/@WorldBank - Videos channel.
Technology Text
Your.Org
Description:
Your.Org is a hosting company that provides hundreds of terrabytes of data for various sites. They also host a mirror of various open source software including Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Wikipedia database dumps, other websites such as Microsoft, Corel, IBM and much more.
- ftpmirror.your.org/pub - Main mirror site.
- ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc - Mirrors of other companies.