Open Educational Resources

Search for materials in education, arts, social science, natural sciences, humanities, applied sciences, and mathematics

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources provides subject links to suggested textbooks

Free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

"high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more."

"PDXOpen is a collection of open access textbooks and open educational resources (OER)."

Open access titles published through the Oxford University Press.

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contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Freely-available ebooks and e-textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Search open access books and journals in the humanities.

First and largest single collection of free Ebooks that are out of copyright.

Open access art textbook

"collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks."

Digital publishing platform with content produced by the University of Washington.

Initiative to sponsor books in order to make them open access to everyone.

Open textbooks on a variety of topics.

Open textbooks and interactive math problems.

Interactive math activities.

Further resources and recommended free math materials.

Explore simulations and examples in math and science.

"freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences"

Freely-available ebooks and e-textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Open access books on a variety of science and technology topics.

NASA puts out many free e-books available in EPUB and PDF formats.

Explore simulations and examples in math and science.

Search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier

Free online access to Ebooks and documents in life sciences and healthcare.

Contains some great supplemental modules.

MERLOT contains textbooks and supplemental material for Chemistry.

OAPEN Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation based in the Netherlands, with its registered office at the National Library in The Hague. OAPEN is dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books.

Textbooks include introduction to chemistry, organic chemistry, and analytical chemistry.

The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests. Teachers can use our content for pre-labs, for alternatives to textbook homework, and for in-class activities for individuals or teams. Students can review and learn chemistry concepts using our virtual labs, simulations, and tutorials. The ChemCollective is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon who are interested in using, assessing, and creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.

The Chem Compute website allows students to easily access state of the art computational software for free. Our hope is that this will enable faculty to incorporate computational chemistry into their undergraduate teaching and research curriculum without the hassle of compiling, installing, and maintaining software and hardware.

The SciMedTV Video Library is an indexed collection of 250,000 videos from over 300 YouTube Channels created by the world's leading universities, hospitals and research centers.

ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

The Royal Society of Chemistry's interactive periodic table features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends across the periodic table. Click the tabs at the top to explore each section. Use the buttons above to change your view of the periodic table and view Murray Robertson’s stunning Visual Elements artwork. Click each element to read detailed information.

Multimedia resource through the Institute of Human Origins.