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Open access journals

Academic journals with free articles related to society, the environment, and other topics.


Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

The open access journal of the Society for the Social Studies of Science.


Human Ecology Review (back issues)

“Interdisciplinary research on all aspects of human–environment interactions.”


The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy

Inclusive Democracy aims to become the international forum for the new conception of inclusive democracy.”


Journal of Political Ecology

“Research into the linkages between political economy and human environmental impacts.”


Real-World Economics Review

Open access heterodox economics journal.


Socius

The open access journal of the American Sociological Association.

 

Resourceful websites

National Academies Press Reports

Free and readable synthetic reports on many important issues.


America’s Climate Change Choices Reports and Videos

Helpful primers on climate change from the National Academy of Sciences.


Inequality.org

Nice collection of facts and resources related to inequalities in wealth, income, health, etc.


The Mead Project

Large collection of social psychology and sociology, especially work surrounding George Herbert Mead.


Political Economy Research Institute 

UMass research institute with insightful political-economic reports and helpful data sets, including measures of leading polluters (Toxic 100 Indexes).


Marxist Internet Archive Library and the Libcom Library

Two humongous collections of social scientific, political, and philosophical works from various (not only radical) perspectives.


The Next System Project

Concrete programs and strategies to increase democratic control of institutions.

 
Research & Degrowth Publications

"Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist." - Kenneth Boulding
Free access to early publications from those calling for a sustainable reduction in total energy and material throughput.


The Open Commons of Phenomenology

 Large collection of works by leading phenomenologists, including many free English translations.


Classics in the History of Psychology

Nice collection of books and articles by early giants in psychology, including James, Freud, Titchener, and Wundt.


NASA's International Space Station Live Stream

Check out views of Earth from the ISS.  A good place to "get perspective."


Project Gutenberg

If you like pretending to understand classic literature and being confused by philosophy like me, this site has a lot of both.  If you prefer audiobooks, check out LibriVox for tons of classics on "tape" (they have an app too).