Open Educational Resources

Open Textbooks

• Introductory Chemistry, by David W. Ball, BCcampus Open Textbooks, CC BY NC SA 3.0
  • Introductory Chemistry textbook image, 291/365 Chemistry, by thebarrowboy, CC BY 2.0
• Concept Development Studies in Chemistry, by OpenStax College, CC BY 2.0
• Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry, by William Reusch, CC BY NC ND 2.0

Additional Open Textbooks

ChemEd DL includes "...digital resources, tools, and online services ... for teaching and learning chemistry." "The Chemical Education Digital Library Living Textbooks are online textbooks which cover a variety of topics including general and physical chemistry." See the Terms of Use.

Additional Course Materials

"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.

Open Chemistry by the University of California - Irvine - 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 e-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.