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15 sites in 55 categories, each read by a person before it was listed. Type / in the box for the categories.
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Peer-reviewed, maintained, and the rare reference work that is actually authoritative.
/philosophy/reference/peer-reviewed/scholarship/maintained/open-access
Categories are flat and a site carries as many as apply, so none of these is above or below another. Open one and it will tell you what it sits next to.
The preprint server. Physics, mathematics and computer science papers, posted before and often instead of a journal.
/preprints/physics/mathematics/computer-science/open-access/scholarship/no-paywall
The Wayback Machine, plus books, film, software and audio. The closest thing the web has to a memory.
/archives/web-history/software-preservation/non-profit/film/audio/books/long-running
Public domain books, typeset properly by volunteers. Free, and better made than most things you pay for.
/public-domain/ebooks/typography/volunteer-run/reading/craft/books
Course materials from MIT, published free since 2001. Lecture notes, problem sets, exams.
/courseware/lecture-notes/teaching/open-access/scholarship/no-paywall
Real research that needs human eyes. Classify galaxies, transcribe ship logs, count penguins.
/citizen-science/crowdsourced/volunteer-run/astronomy/transcription/biodiversity
Still here, still plain HTML, still explaining why the software you run should be yours.
/free-software/plain-html/manifestos/licensing/unix/long-running
Started in 1971, which makes it older than almost everything it preserves.
/public-domain/ebooks/books/archives/long-running/volunteer-run/reading
Essays on the strange and beautiful edges of the public domain.
/public-domain/essays/illustration/curiosities/archives/reading