LibGuides: OER By Discipline: Anthropology

OER Collections

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook — Fordham University
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
JSTOR Open Content — Anthropology
Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers. Focus on high-quality content, ease of use, and digital preservation.
MERLOT — Anthropology
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
OER Commons — Anthropology
OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and other course material for the study of anthropology.
Humanities Commons — Anthropology
Humanities Commons is a nonprofit network that enables humanities scholars and practitioners to create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work.

Ancient Civilizations — Independence Hall Association
Independence 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 This resource is great for teachers and student to find historical documents and study people and places.
BC Open Textbooks
The B.C. Open Textbook Project provides textbooks including The History of Our Tribe: Hominini, Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, and Native Peoples of North America.
LibreText
Explore books on cultural anthropology, physical anthropology and linguistics.
Open Textbook Library — Linguistics
Browse a wide selection of textbooks on linguistic topics.

"Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology"
The first comprehensive, peer-reviewed open access textbook for biological anthropology courses.
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Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera, and Lara Braff, Eds. Produced with support from the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (a section of the American Anthropological Association) and a grant from Minnesota State. Available free of charge for use in any setting.
"Introduction to Paleoanthropology" — Wikibooks
"Polyphonic Anthropology" — InTechOpen
This book connects anthropology and polyphony: a composition that multiplies the researcher's glance, the style of representation, the narrative presence of subjectivities.
OER Commons — Anthropology Textbooks
These textbooks are either in use at academic institutions or have been produced by subject matter experts affiliated with academic or professional institutions.
Open Research Library — Anthropology Textbooks
The ORL is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform.
Open Textbook Library — Anthropology Textbooks
These textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.
Project Gutenberg — Books in Anthropology

MERLOT — Anthropology Online Courses
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
MIT OpenCourseWare — Anthropology Courses
MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects available on the Web, free of charge. CC BY NC SA

See Historical Primary Sources for more CC and Public Domain historical/anthropological images.

Anthropology Subject Websites
From the "Subject Websites" directory LibGuide. Some website materials may be copyrighted, but all are available for students to access.
SSRN Anthropology & Archaeology Research Network
A repository for preprints devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research. Copyrighted, but available to view and cite.
Wolfram Alpha: Society & Culture
Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology.
Writing Center Tips & Tools: Writing for Anthropology
From UNC at Chapel Hill.