Research Guides: Chemistry Subject Guide: Finding Open Educational Resources

General Chemistry for Gee-Gees

Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open Educational or Open Access Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that are created with the intention of being freely available to users anywhere.

This includes:

Textbooks
Readings
Courses
Journals
Case Studies
Software
Databases

... and much more!

Browse the Douglas College Library OER guide for more information on resources.

OASIS (megasearch tool) Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)

OASIS offers users worldwide the ability to search a range of OER materials including textbooks, courses and corresponding materials, interactive simulations, public domain books, audiobooks, modules, open access books, videos and podcasts on a variety of topics — from anthropology to zoology. OASIS also is the only tool that allows users to limit searches by creative commons licenses or by faculty review.

Open Educational Resources for Chemistry

Virtual Labs and Science Resources
Virtual labs and science resources were identified by BCcampus, then vetted by subject matter experts. The resources in this directory are intended to support remote science education, either by supplementing concepts or replacing physical labs.
MERLOT Chemistry
The MERLOT Chemistry Portal helps people explore all the many resources available for teaching and learning chemistry.
Open Chemistry
Open Chemistry (OpenChem) provides a full curriculum of recorded lectures covering undergraduate chemistry plus selected graduate topics. Through lecture videos and ancillary materials, anyone in the world can effectively sit alongside UCI Irvine students and view complete undergraduate core and elective course lectures delivered by top faculty members.
WikiEducator CHEMISTRY
A collection of chemistry resources curated by a British Columbia high school teacher.

Biochemistry
Biochemistry is an introductory course, designed for both biology and chemical engineering majors. A consistent theme in this course is the development of a quantitative understanding of the interactions of biological molecules from a structural, thermodynamic, and molecular dynamic point of view. A molecular simulation environment provides the opportunity for you to explore the effect of molecular interactions on the biochemical properties of systems.

B.C. Open Textbook Collection: Chemistry
A collection of open textbooks relating to various topics in chemistry.
Chemistry, Life, the Universe & Everything
This textbook included topics related to introductory chemistry.
Chemistry and the Environment
This textbook was designed to accompany an lectures for an Environmental Studies course that explores current environmental issues from a chemical perspective.
Chemistry LibreTexts
A collection of open textbooks, assignments, and other educational resources on chemistry subjects.
Concept Development Studies in Chemistry
“Concept Development Studies in Chemistry” is an online textbook for an Introductory General Chemistry course. Each module develops a central concept in Chemistry from experimental observations and inductive reasoning. This approach complements an interactive or active learning teaching approach.
Introductory Chemistry
This textbook is a survey of basic topics in chemistry.
Math Review for Chemistry
This textbook is intended to serve as a review of the following concept used in Chemistry: powers of ten, metric prefixes and conversions, determining when conversions are exact or measured, solving equations for a variable, and cancelling units.
Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis
This textbook is designed for a two-semester, sophomore-level course in organic chemistry in which biological chemistry takes center stage. For the most part, the text covers the core concepts of organic structure, structure determination, and reactivity in the standard order. What is different is the context: biological chemistry is fully integrated into the explanation of central principles, and as much as possible the in-chapter and end-of-chapter problems are taken from the biochemical literature. Many laboratory synthesis reactions are also covered, generally in parallel with their biochemical counterparts - but it is intentionally the biological chemistry that comes first.
Pressbooks Open Textbooks Collection: Chemistry
A collection of open textbooks related to chemistry.

More OER Resources

For more resources on this and other subjects, visit the BC Campus website: https://open.bccampus.ca/

Even More OER Resources:

Keep your finger on the OER pulse!

BC Campus
A publicly funded organization whose "primary focus continues to be grounded in supporting the B.C. post-secondary system through learning and collaboration opportunities that advance high quality teaching and learning throughout the province." They are leading the way in Open Education advocacy.
BC Campus Discipline Directory
Search your subject area, listed alphabetically, to find Open Access resources in your subject area.
Creative Commons
A California based organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share through their release of copyright licenses available free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.
David Wiley
Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to increasing student success and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources.
eCampus Ontario
Search our collection of open textbooks and other open resources. The curated collection aligns with top subject areas in post-secondary education and features reviews from experts and educators across Canada.
Pressbooks Directory
Search your subject area and sort by various filters to find open access books in your subject area.
SPARC
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.