Library Home: Open Educational Resources by School: Anthropology

Open Courseware

MIT Open Courseware
MIT Open Courseware offers an extensive series of online courses. Courses generally include lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more.

Videos

Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online
"Alexander Street Anthropology brings together a wide range of streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over." (Available to SJSU students and faculty only.)
Free Online Anthropology Videos and Video Clips
"A list of online videos and video clips for anthropology or cross cultural classes. These can be used for online classes, hybrids, classroom presentations, or outside assignments."

LibGuides

University of Florida Anthropology LibGuide
An extensive collection of anthropological resources.

Resources

Basket, Chumash Anonymous, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
©Kathleen Cohen kans3942

Registry of Anthropological Data Wiki
Links to many digital anthropological collections.
Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology
Links to Collections and Archives, Online Databases, Online Exhibits, and more from the Smithsonian Institution.
AAA Anthropology Resources on the Internet
A list of internet resources from the American Anthropological Association, divided into general subject areas.
American Memory
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.
College Open Textbooks
Some anthropology-specific free textbooks.

Images

ARTstor
A digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

OER Commons

OER Commons
Many Open Educational Resources related to Anthropology aimed at varying levels, including courses and other materials.

Ebooks in the Library

The library has an extensive collection of ebooks on a variety of topics. To find what is available, enter your subject in the library catalog and select as a phrase in the drop down menu. If a book is in ebook format, it will say view ebook in the record.

Almost all of the library's ebooks are multiuser. This means that your whole class could access the book simultaneously and for free!

OneSearch - Walter W. Stiern Library Catalog