Electronic Resources

OPEN-SOURCE TEXTBOOKS BY SUBJECT:

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

• Anatomy and Physiology – Available from Open Textbook Library
• Anatomy and Physiology – Available from OpenStax
• Boundless Anatomy and Physiology – Available from Boundless
• Human Anatomy and Physiology – Available from Open Course Library, Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
• Anatomy and Physiology – Three volume set. This textbook is an Open Education Resource provided under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY), permitting the copying, printing, repurposing and redistribution of all or some of its contents. Question Bank also available at this site.

IMAGES

• Visual Human Project – Available from The National Library of Medicine
• eSkeletons – Available under Creative Commons from Images and content are created by faculty, staff, and students at the University of Texas.
• Anatomy & Physiology Lab Homework and Reference Materials – from OER Commons
• Anatomy Zone – Review usage language. Partner with OpenStax

TEXTBOOKS

• Biology – From OpenStax
• Biodiversity – From OpenStax CNX
• Biology – From BC Campus. List of biology OER textbooks
• Biological Sciences Grants Collections – From Galileo Open Learning Materials
• General Biology – From Open Textbook Library
• Concepts of Biology – From OpenStax

TEXTBOOKS

• General Chemistry: Principles, Patterns, and Applications – Available from Open Textbook Library
• Introductory Chemistry – Available from Open Textbook Library
• Chemistry – Available from OpenStax
• Boundless Chemistry – Available from Boundless
• Introductory Chemistry – From Open Textbook Library
• Concepts of Biology – Available from BC Campus
• Chem 1 Virtual Textbook – Available from Merlot
• Chemistry – Available from LibreTexts

OPEN COURSES

• CHEM 121 Introduction to Chemistry (Inorganic) – From Open Course Library
• CHEM 161 General Chemistry with Lab – From Open Course Library
• CHEM 162 General Chemistry with Lab – From Open Course Library
• CHEM 163 General Chemistry with Lab – From Open Course Library
• CHEM 101: General Chemistry – From the Saylor Academy
• CHEM 125/125 General Chemistry Laboratory – From Open Michigan University of Michigan

LABS

• Chem Collective Virtual Lab – From Carnegie Mellon Open

TEXTBOOKS

• Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care – Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care was developed to ensure best practice and quality care based on the latest evidence, and to address inconsistencies in how clinical health care skills are taught and practiced in the clinical setting.
• Complete Subjective Health Assessment – From Open Library
• Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions – Author: Sherri Melrose PhD, RN, Athabasca University, Caroline Park PhD, RN, Athabasca University, Beth Perry PhD, RN, Athabasca University
• Critical Care Nursing of Infants and Children – This publication of the second edition of Critical Care Nursing of Infants and Children is another important milestone in the evolving development of pediatric critical care nursing. 2001
• Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles – From Lumen Learning
• Health Case Studies – From Open Textbook Library
• Health Education Course, Chapter 1 – PART 1: SERVING CHILDREN’S HEALTH – Health Education Course
  By: Virgil Bourassa and Fred Mednick
• InTech Open Science Open Minds – InTechOpen is the world’s largest Science, Technology and Medicine Open Access book publisher. With a goal to provide free online access to research since 2004.
• National Academies Press – Many of the books published by the National Academies Press can be downloaded for free in PDF format. Search the Health and Medicine collection. Site requires that you provide name and email.
• Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know – Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know by Susan E. Lowey
• OPEN RN – Open Education Resources for Nursing is a project led by Chippewa Valley Technical College The Open RN project is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated Virtual Reality scenarios.
• OPEN RN: Nursing Pharmacology – From OPEN RN 2020
• Open Textbooks – From Skills Commons
• Skills Commons – Limited to sterile processing
• Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals – Brent Burbridge, MD, FRCPC from University of Saskatchewan

OPEN JOURNALS

• MedEdPORTAL – A peer-reviewed, open-access journal that promotes educational scholarship and dissemination of teaching and assessment resources in the health professions.

COURSE RESOURCES

• MedEdPORTAL – MedEdPORTAL Publications is a free publication service provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges in partnership with the American Dental Education Association.
• Medical | Open.Michigan – The mission of the U-M Medical School is to educate students, physicians, and biomedical scholars and to provide a spectrum of comprehensive knowledge, research, patient care and service of the highest quality to the people of the State of Michigan and beyond.
• MERLOT Health Sciences Portal – Welcome to the MERLOT Health Sciences Portal, an educational resource for teaching and learning. This site includes over 40 different subjects including dentistry, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy and radiology.
• MERLOT Health Sciences Search page – Start searching for health sciences at this page.
• Nursing Open – Locate free information for nursing including activities, audio, video, free course, course, and community.
• Nursing Resources Open Michigan – Lead by the University of Michigan’s School of Nursing.
• Open Educational Resources for Nursing Education – GW School of Nursing is pleased to share this collection of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for use by nurse educators worldwide.
• Portal of Geriatrics Online Education (POGOe) – The Portal of Geriatrics Online Education (POGOe) is free collection of expert-contributed geriatrics educational materials for educators and learners. POGOe’s mission is to encourage the free exchange of teaching and assessment materials in order to promote geriatrics education in the fields of geriatrics and gerontology. You will find teaching tools, images, videos, a question bank, and much more.
• Skills Commons Material Type – From Skills Commons

INTERACTIVE RESOURCES

• MedlinePlus Interactive Health Games – Provided by MedlinePlus, “boost your health knowledge by playing with the 35 interactive health games.”
• Health Check Tools: MedlinePlus – From MedlinePlus. “Assess your health with interactive tools such as calculators, quizzes, and questionnaires. You can check your risk for heart disease, calculate your ideal weight and body mass, find out how many calories your favorite exercise burns, and more.”
• Nursing – Wisc-Online OER – Interactive tutorials in the area of nursing. You will find 25 free learning objects that can help you learn, study, or teach Nursing.

VIDEOS

• MedlinePlus – Health videos made available to you by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Watch health videos on topics such as anatomy and body systems, surgical procedures and health news. Test your knowledge with interactive tutorials and games. Check your health with calculators and quizzes.
• TEDMED videos – Provides video presentations from 2009 to the present about health and medicine.
• Radiation Emergency medical Management – REEM – Video Library

IMAGES

• Free images of global women – A free library of images celebrating women’s lives and their work in 11 countries around the world.
• Gender Spectrum Collection – Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models.
• HEAL Health Education Assets Library medical Management – REEM – The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education. The collection is now housed at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Digital Library. You can search the entire collection or search by specific collection.
• Images, Videos, and More medical Management – REEM – NIGMS offers scientific images and videos, plus scientist interviews, profiles and photos.
• Open-i: Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine – From the US National Library of Medicine.
• Open Oregon Image list – From Open Oregon.
• Open Peeps – Free for commercial and personal use under CC0 License.
• Pharmacy Pictures – The internet’s source of freely-usable images. CC images and provide attribution.
• Plus Size Images – Free plus size images.