Internet Resources for free text

Directories / Search engines for Free Full Text & Multimedia content

The Open Content Alliance
The "Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental ornganizations form around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multiligual digitized text and multimedia content".

The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive (IA) is widely known for its 'Wayback Machine' service, allowing us to 'visit archived versions of web sites' by typing in a URL. However, IA offers so much more, such as Web content, moving images, live music, audio, and text archive. They truly are 'building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, (they) provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.'