Open Education: Chemistry
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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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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
- Find more open textbooks in Chemistry
Additional Sources of 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.
Course materials: Lecture Videos, Interactive Simulations etc.
LibreTexts 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 the Chemistry LibreTexts Library. To re-use these materials, follow the CC BY NC SA 3.0 permissions.
"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.