Research Guides: Open Educational Resources: Chemistry

Chemistry

On this page you will find several openly licensed Chemistry textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.

Discipline-specific pages are not intended to be exhaustive, but to showcase content that may be of interest to faculty considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes.

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OpenStax Textbooks

Chemistry by Pau Flowers; Klaus Theopold; Richard Langley; William R. Robinson
Call Number: QD31.3.F56 2016
ISBN: 9781938168390
Publication Date: 2015-03-12

Open Textbooks

Introductory Chemistry by David W. Ball
Publication Date: February 28, 2013 | Updated: May 10, 2019
The goal of this textbook is not to make you an expert. True expertise in any field is a years-long endeavor. Here I will survey some of the basic topics of chemistry. This survey should give you enough knowledge to appreciate the impact of chemistry in everyday life and, if necessary, prepare you for additional instruction in chemistry.
Organic Chemistry With a Biological Emphasis (Volumes I & II) by Timothy Soderberg, University of Minnesota, Morris
Publication Date: 2018-10-13
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.

Course materials: Lecture Videos, Interactive Simulations etc.

"XCITR is a repository for exploring and sharing chemical information teaching resources." To re-use these materials, follow the terms of use.

"PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness." To re-use these materials, follow the CC BY 3.0 permissions.

University of California - Irvine - Open Chemistry

Selected courses including required lecture courses for undergraduate UCI Chemistry majors and some electives and graduate courses. Video lectures are licensed CC BY SA 3.0.

The ChemWiki is a collaborative approach toward chemistry education where an Open Access textbook environment is constantly being written and re-written by students and faculty members resulting in a free Chemistry textbook to supplant conventional paper-based books. See also the ChemWiki Core. To re-use these materials, follow the CC BY NC SA 3.0 permissions.