Social Sciences Open Educational Resources

American Government 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester American Government course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including Insider Perspective features and a Get Connected module that shows students how they can get engaged in the political process. The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of American Government and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them.

This course asks a lot of fundamental questions about the nature of government and society. Among them:

What is the purpose of government?
What types of governments are there? What is a democracy?
Where is the center of governmental power? Is it national or local?
Is America's government too big? Too small? Constantly shifting with the times?
What are the rights and responsibilities of each American citizen?

The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Open Learn provides nine courses on topics such as "Politics, media and war: 9/11 and its aftermaths", "The USA, power and international order: Foreign policy under Obama", and "Rights and justice in international relations."

MIT offers over 100 open courses covering political science topics. Includes re-usable lecture videos, problem sets and exams. Especially excellent in international relations and comparative politics with an orientation toward issues of public policy both domestic and international.

On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directed the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to conduct a national survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights movement to obtain justice, freedom and equality for African Americans and to record and make widely accessible new interviews with people who participated in the struggle. The project was initiated in 2010 with the survey and with interviews beginning in 2011.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. The Political Science site offers open courseware, films, and wikimedia.

Project Gutenberg contains over 60,000 open access books which you can view online or download.

ndependence Hall Association provides a comprehensive textbook with sections that cover Archaeologists and Their Artifacts, Anthropologists and Their People, Prehistoric Time, and in-depth chapters regarding Ancient Civilizations. This resource is great for teachers and student to find historical documents and study people and places.

MIT Anthropology students learn about the concept of culture, the nature of anthropological fieldwork, and the connections between anthropology and the other social sciences.

A collection of Anthropology educational videos posted on YouTube.

This textbook is a collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author. Each author has written from their experiences working as an anthropologist and that personal touch makes for an accessible introduction to cultural anthropology. The authors' approach to cultural anthropology is holistic.

Information about Anthropology made available in a variety of formats and material types, such as books, case studies, lectures, audio and video.

The American Anthropological Association is the world’s largest association for professional anthropologists, with more than 10,000 members. Based in Washington, D.C., the Association was founded in 1902, and covers all four main fields of anthropology (cultural anthropology, biological/physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology).

The journal of the Archeological Institute of America.

A public journal of the American Anthropological Association.

Free full-text editions of early anthropological works arranged geographically.

259 open resources for college students in Anthropology.

Learn the key macroeconomic and microeconomic indicators and how they drive economic policy and financial decision-making. Explore topics in risk management, pricing models, globalization and more with courses from Caltech, MIT, TsinghuaX and other top institutions worldwide.

Future learn provides courses on economics such as "The Politics of Economics and the Economics of Politicians", "Economics of Crime", and "Exploring Economics: Will the Next Generation Be Worse Off?"

Videos and lessons that define Economics and introduce some of the fundamental tools and perspectives economists use to understand the world around us.

MIT's Economics department offers an extensive series of online courses. Courses generally include lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more.

The Department of Economics at Yale offers a wide spectrum of courses for both specialists and non-specialists alike. For undergraduate majors, a core of courses in macro- and microeconomics, mathematics, and econometrics is required. Advanced courses offer training in economic history, finance, theory, international and developmental economics, market organization, human resources, and the public sector.

The Open Economics Working Group is run by the Open Knowledge Foundation in association with the Centre for Intellectual and Property Law (CIPIL) at the University of Cambridge.

Teaching economics as if the last three decades had happened. Open Access introductory text for undergraduates. Registration is required but it is easy to do. Text is available as printable PDFs or as an Inkling app for the IPad.

Lumen Learning provides a textbook on Economics that covers various chapters such as Economic Growth, Challenges to Efficient Outcomes, and Unemployment.

OER Commons provides a curated collection of 33 textbooks and resources for Economic studies.