Open Educational Resources (OER): Social Sciences

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources.

The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.

Quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats.

Peer-reviewed, openly licensed free textbooks.

Publisher of open access books, built by scientists for scientists.

Open textbook from Lumen Learning.

The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year... providing authoritative, independently-researched information on important matters in science and health policy.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Cornell Open is a global open access portal for both new and classic out-of-print titles from the distinguished catalog of Cornell University Press.

Data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

HathiTrust provides long-term preservation and access services to digitized content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house member institution initiatives.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks.