Open Access

Academic Earth provides resources to open courses, journals/trade magazines, grants and scholarships, internships, and student and professional memberships.

The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, and BCcampus is tasked with managing it.

Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums.

In this YouTube series Nicole Sweeney will walk you through questions big and small about how we both shape societies and are shaped by them.

Examine perspectives on society, and the cultural issues facing society. Apply sociological theory to researching social groups.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Boundless provides one textbook that covers a variety of interrelated sociological topics including, Stratification, Inequality, and Social Class in the U.S., Deviance, Social Control, and Crime, Family, Aging, and Sexuality.

This resource provides textbooks on various behavioral and social science topics. All of the books on the National Academies Press site are available as freely downloadable PDFs.

Both a collection of open access publications and a publishing platform with a focus on social sciences and humanities.

OER Commons provides a curated collection of Sociology textbooks and resources.

UK publishing imprint that provides free online access and low cost formatted and print access to titles with a special emphasis on humanities, digital humanities, and social sciences.

Search for free sociology courses, inter-actives, videos and more. Free courses include "Does prison work?", "Social problems: Who makes them?', "The role of diagnosis in counselling and psychotherapy", and "The social in social science."

Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course.

This collection offers a variety of various Sociological texts including, 'Understanding an Changing the Social World', and 'Social Problems: Continuity and Change'.

The Department of Sociology at Yale University provides concentrations in the fields of Comparative and Historical Sociology, Cultural Sociology and Social Theory, and Social Stratification and Life Course Research. In addition, faculty publish and teach in the areas of Gender and Sexuality, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Economic Sociology, Urban Sociology and Ethnography, and Chinese Society.

Project Gutenberg's list of Sociology books in the public domain that are available freely online.

Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn.

SocArXiv, an open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.

This academic textbook presents sociology as terrain that one can virtually traverse and experience.

Create and share lessons around any TED-Ed original, TED Talk or YouTube Video.

Open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data.

Hosted by the Wikimedia foundation, Wikibooks is an open content textbook collection spanning a variety of reading levels and disciplines.