"The Public Domain Review is dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas - focusing on works now fallen into the public domain, the vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restrictions."
rclis is pronounced "reckless" and stands for research in computing, library and information science. rclis is a project to build a database about all current and current and past research in computing and library and information science. The data will be freely available for public and private, commercial and non-commercial purposes. It will serve as a testbed for digital library research. It will initially be released using the public metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), using the Academic Metadata Format (AMF). Other delivery mechanisms and metadata formats may be added as time permits.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) remains one of the most active platforms for sharing knowledge and collaborating on the Internet. www.IRSeek.com (still in Beta) strives to make this hidden gem available to the entire Internet community. By constantly archiving active, highly-focused, public chat-rooms in a wide variety of topics then indexing, processing and publishing the content on the web using advanced Web 2.0 technologies while maintaining the privacy of the users, we are creating a knowledge base different from any other.
Web Search by the people, for the people
YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world's users.
YaCy.net/en/ is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world's users.
"YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of informatio"
"DZone Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world
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Google and the USPTO have entered into an agreement to make the following USPTO products available to the public at no charge:
Patents (grants, applications, assignments, classification information, and maintenance fee events)
Trademarks (grants, applications, assignments, and TTAB proceedings)
Spokeo is a search engine specialized in organizing people-related information from phone books, social networks, marketing lists, business sites, and other public sources. Most of this data is publicly available on the Web. For example, you can find people's name, phone, and address on Whitepages.com, and you can get home values from Zillow.com. That said, only Spokeo's algorithm can piece together the scattered data into coherent people profiles, giving you the most comprehensive intelligence about anyone you want to find.
novoseek is a biomedical search engine developed by bioalma for searching published knowledge in biomedical literature.novoseek indexes biomedical literature from Pubmed, Free Full Text Publications from Open Access Journals in PubMedCentral and US grants from over 75 institutions including the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) using a text mining technology that enables the identification of key biomedical terms. To perform this ambiguous identification, our technology takes into account external available data as well as contextual term information.
Free Pictures of Everything on Earth. All pictures on Ookaboo are available free under public domain or Creative Commons and can be used on web sites and for classwork and other creative projects.