Last updated on February 24, 2025
The Public Domain Review is an online database that regularly lists all works in the public domain and therefore freely exploitable by all.
Many of you have reacted to the World Digital Library I introduced you here two days ago. The Public Domain Review is part of the same type of universal resources that should appeal to all lovers of knowledge and education.
The Public Domain Review is a project of theOpen Knowledge Foundation, which fights to make knowledge accessible to as many people as possible. It promotes the public domain and other free content. The administrators of "The Public Domain review" highlight several times a week a work belonging to the public domain, often books, but also videos, sounds or iconographic works.
Take a look, Most of the resources are in English but the journey is intoxicating. Like when you opened a large encyclopedia when you were young. Be careful you may spend long hours browsing the treasures that The Public Domain Review offers freely to all Internet users.
The homepage offers magazine-style coverage with resources highlighted by the site’s publishers classified by headings and type of content: Texts, Illustrations, Books, Movies, Sounds. You will also be able to use a search engine in a more traditional way or browse the contents by collections of media types.
You can also go to the shop, you will find original gift ideas with beautiful posters or old postcards.
The Public Domain Review publishes every beginning of the year a highly anticipated article. It lists the great works and the authors who on the first of January pass into the public domain. The article for 2015 was published yesterday, among the dozens of new authors and works in the public domain by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his Little Prince.
Link: The Public Domain Review
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