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Open Educational Resources (OER): Subjects

Free and Open Resources by Subject

Find Open Educational Resources (open licenses for re-use), open access, and public domain resources. OER Commons is a good starting point for all subjects.

Accounting

OER Commons: Accounting   Free courses, modules, and materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.

Open Textbook Library: Accounting  A project of the University of Minnesota. The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric for faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and displays them for the benefit of potential adopters. 

Principles of Accounting  Free online textbook.

Open course content for a variety of subjects and disciplines

 

Anatomy & Physiology (Human)

AnatomyZone Free animated videos and 3D models. Account needed for some functions. All Rights Reserved, not Creative Commons licensed. 

Anatomy and Physiology 2e OpenStax textbook. Peer-reviewed OER text edited with more inclusive examples and clearer illustrations.

BioDigital “Virtual Body” customizable 3d visualizations with mouse-over labels and brief, general explanations. Requires an account. Sign up as an individual for free access. All Rights Reserved, not Creative Commons licensed. 

Human Anatomy resources on OER Commons A variety of OER course materials at the college/university level. Many are rated and reviewed.

Human Physiology (Wikibooks) OER textbook created by students of Prof. Kevin Young at Provo College and Utah State University. Chapters include glossaries and references and many have review questions.

MERLOT Anatomy & Physiology Resources A collection of OER course materials.

Teaching Commons: Anatomy Mostly sections from the OER Visual Guide to Human Dissection

Videos for Human Anatomy and Physiology Short YouTube videos from a Georgia Highlands College professor pointing out structures and functions on anatomical models. Watch these while reviewing the library's anatomical models.

The Visible Human Project The National Library of Medicine Visible Human Project has created publicly-available complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of a human male body and a human female body. Specifically, the VHP provides a public-domain library of cross-sectional cryosection, CT, and MRI images obtained from one male cadaver and one female cadaver. The Visible Man data set was publicly released in 1994 and the Visible Woman in 1995.

Art

Lumen Learning Open Course Open course content for a variety of subjects and disciplines

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OER Commons: Art  Free courses, modules, materials.

Biology

       Global Plants   Nearly three million high-resolution type specimens and related materials in this growing        database showcases hand-selected materials and reference works from contributors around the world. 

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. You can find a wide range of online materials of different types - animations, assessment tools, learning assignments, mobile apps, collections, simulations, tutorials, as well as free and open textbooks and free and open courseware,

National Science Foundation: Biology  Projects, research, grant information, media, classroom resources, and much more.  

OER Commons: Biology  Free courses, modules, materials. OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.

OpenStax Science   Peer reviewed openly licensed textbooks

         Open Textbook Library - General Biology  lists open textbooks by subject, many of which have been peer reviewed.      

PLOS: Open for Discovery   Journals and articles, all CC licensed.

Biomedical .

BioMed Central  BioMed Central is an STM publisher of 257 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine...All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central levies an article-processing charge to cover the cost of the publication process. Authors publishing with BioMed Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. BioMed Central is owned by Springer Science+ Business Media, and also hosts the SpringerOpen platform.

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning  MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. You can find a wide range of online materials of different types - animations, assessment tools, learning assignments, mobile apps, collections, simulations, tutorials, as well as free and open textbooks and free and open courseware.         

OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.

Yale Open Courses   Full courses available. 'All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available.

Business

InTechOpen - Business, Management, and Economics  Open access books in business topics.

Lumen Learning Open Course Open course content for a variety of subjects and disciplines

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OER Commons - Business & Communication  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.

OpenStax Business  Peer reviewed openly licensed textbooks

Open Textbook Library - Business, Management, and Marketing  A project of the University of Minnesota, The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric for faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and displays them for the benefit of potential adopters.

 

Chemistry

        Atoms First Chemistry - OpenStax Chemistry: Atoms First is a peer-reviewed, openly licensed introductory textbook  produced through a collaborative publishing partnership   between OpenStax and the University of Connecticut  and UConn Undergraduate Student Government Association.

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials. OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.  

OpenStax - Chemistry  Chemistry is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. The textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. The book also includes a number of innovative features, including interactive exercises and real-world applications, designed to enhance student learning.

       Open Textbook Library    A project of the University of Minnesota, The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric  for faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and displays them for the benefit of potential adopters.

       Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource

       A project of the VIPEr serves as a digital repository of teaching materials for inorganic chemistry. 

      To access all of the information, the user must be a faculty member and "apply" for access (fill out form when you check in; they will double check your status and give you          permission. 

        There are some General Chemistry materials on the site, but it is mostly for Junior/Senior (or higher)level courses. 

Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry - William Reusch  An interactive textbook covering the usual topics treated in a college sophomore-level course.

Yale Open Courses  Full courses available. 'All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available.

Communications 

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OER Commons - Communication Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.

Open Textbook Library: Communication A project of the University of Minnesota. The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric for faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and displays them for the benefit of potential adopters. 

Computer Information Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering

W3Schools Free tutorials, quizzes, exercises, and reference material for web developers.

OER Commons: Computer Science   Free courses, modules, and materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.

Open Textbook Library (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities): Collection of openly licensed and free to download textbooks. Scroll down to find books on Information Systems.

Open Textbooks for Engineering Collection of open textbooks grouped by engineering discipline, curated by the Scholarly Communication Committee of the Engineering Library Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Education

       OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an           expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.

      Open Textbook Library -  Education   A project of the University of Minnesota,The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric for faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and  displays them for the benefit of potential adopters.

   

Engineering

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OER Commons   Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.  

       Open Textbook Library - Engineering   A project of the University of Minnesota, The Open Textbook Library provides a    review rubric for faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and displays them for the benefit of potential adopters

Open Textbooks for Engineering Collection of open textbooks grouped by engineering discipline, curated by the Scholarly Communication Committee of the Engineering Library Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.

English 

 Auburn University Writing Resources  

Contains worksheets and handouts on numerous writing-focused topics, such as editing and proofreading, literature reviews and ePortfolios.

OER Commons - English  Free courses, modules, materials. OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.

First Year Seminar

         The Open Textbook Library -  The Information Literacy User's Guide: An Open, Online Textbook 

Health, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy & Nursing 

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.  

        Wisc - Online  All subjects including health sciences (anatomy).

History (U.S.)

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Site on the Web   "Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history."

Independence Hall Association Free Textbooks

Lumen Learning Open Course Open course content for a variety of subjects and disciplines

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OpenStax  A searchable library of History textbooks.

OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.  

       Open Textbook Library A project of the University of Minnesota. The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric for  faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and displays them for the benefit of potential adopters

Law

     BCcampus OpenEd A collection of over 200 openly-licensed textbooks organized by subject.

    OER Commons    Free courses, modules, materials.OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.  

    Open Textbook Library - Law -   Lists open textbooks by subject, many of which have been peer reviewed.   

Literature       

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.

Open Textbook Library  A project of the University of Minnesota, The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric for  faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and displays them for the benefit of potential adopters.

Yale Open Courses Full courses available. 'All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available.

Mathematics

Lumen Learning Open Course Open course content for a variety of subjects and disciplines

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.  You can find a wide range of online materials of different type - animations, assessment tools, learning assignments, mobile apps, collections, simulations, tutorials, as well as free and open textbooks and free and open courseware.

Open Course Library  The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts.

OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.  

OpenStax - Mathematic  A searchable library of math resources indexed by education level, math level, and/or topic.

Medicine

MedEdPORTAL (AAMC)   MedEdPORTAL Publications promotes educational scholarship and collaboration by  facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed health education teaching and assessment resources.

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning  MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

National Academies Press - Medicine Most books published by the National Academies Press can be downloaded for free in PDF format. Just find the book you want, bypass the print price, and click the "Download Free PDF" button. Requires you to provide a name and email address.

NCBI Bookshelf  NCBI Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science
and healthcare.

OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.  

Nursing 

        MERLOT Nursing Collection  From California State University System 

         OER Commons: Nursing  Free courses, modules, materials. OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. 

        Open RN  The OER Nursing textbooks are written based on the State Nursing curriculum established by the Wisconsin Technical College System, and include: Pharmacology, Skills, Nursing Fundamentals, Mental Health &   Community Concepts, and Management & Professional Concepts.

       Open Textbook Library: Nursing  A project of the University of Minnesota. The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric for faculty to use when evaluating textbooks. 

       State University of New York (SUNY) Open Textboook - Nursing

Philosophy

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.  

Open Textbook Library (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Collection of openly licensed and free to download textbooks. Scroll down to find books in Philosophy

Yale Open Courses Full courses available. 'All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available

         

Phyics  

MERLOT Physics Portal   MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.  You can find a wide range of online materials of different type - animations, assessment tools, learning assignments, mobile apps, collections, simulations, tutorials, as well as free and open textbooks and free and open courseware.

OER Commons  Free courses, modules, materials.  OER Commons is a collection of audio, ebooks, images and more. Sources on this site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use.  

OpenStax College: College Physics   "This 1300 page introductory, algebra-based, two-semester college physics book is grounded with real-world examples, illustrations, and explanations to help students grasp key, fundamental physics concepts."

Yale Open Courses  Full courses available. 'All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available.'

Political Science

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning  A large number of open textbooks on a range of political science topics.