Open Educational Resources for Chemistry
OER books come from many sources. Some are developed by the author specifically to teach a course, some are new textbooks from commercial publisher that the author negotiated to be published open access, some are older textbooks where the copyright has reverted to the author. Here are some examples of the variety of OER books you can find.
Open Textbook Collections to Search or Browse
- Applied Math & Science Education Repository (AMSER) -- (Science Collection)AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. This is a link for their Science Collection.
- BC Campus (Chemistry Collection)Maintained by post-secondary institutions in British Columbia. Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats; the first step in adopting open educational resources. Search by subject and download them to your computer.
- Directory of Open Access Books (Chemistry Collection)All books listed in DOAB are freely accessible and therefore free to read, but this does not mean readers are free to do anything they like with these books. The usage rights of the books in DOAB are determined by the license.
- JSTOR Open ContentThousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press.
- LibreTexts (Chemistry)A collection of Chemistry books from the LibreTexts library that are ready to download, print, or remix online. LibreTexts is a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve postsecondary education at all levels of higher learning
- MERLOT (Chemistry Collection)MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
- Milne Open Textbooks, SUNY (Chemistry Collection)Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
- National Academies Press (Math, Chemistry & Physics Collection)The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently-researched information. Almost all of the books are available as PDFs that can be downloaded for free by the chapter or by the entire book.
- OER Commons (Chemistry Collection)Textbooks and full courses in biology offered in various specialties, and at a number of levels. Most have Creative Commons licenses, but check the rights descriptions to be sure.
- OpenStax (Science Collection)Peer-reviewed open textbooks, backed by additional learning resources including Canvas Cartridges, sample PowerPoint slides, instructor solution manuals, and sample syllabus examples.
- Open Textbook Library (Chemistry Collection)Maintained by the University of Minnesota and offering open textbooks in major areas of science study
- Springer Open AccessSpringer offers authors the option to publish open access books in a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine and in the humanities and social sciences. Their books are available to download free of charge from SpringerLink (HTML, PDF, ePub) or Amazon (MOBI).