Open Educational Resources (OER)

BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 150 million documents from more than 7,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

Bio Med Central offers a variety of journals that are open access, such as BMC Nursing, BMC Oral Health, BMC Palliative Care, BMC Pharmacology to name a few.

is an online open access general medical journal that is dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas. Click link to learn more about this journal.

Index of Health Sciences open access eBooks.

InTech is a pioneer and world's largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since 2004, InTech has collaborated with more than 86180 authors and published 2355 books and 6 journals with the aim of providing free online access to high-quality research and helping leading academics to make their work visible and accessible to diverse new audiences around the world.

Free and open collection of peer-reviewed online learning materials for higher education.

Collection of advice, tips, communities of practice, and resources (including OER lab activities and textbooks)

This problem set was developed to assist undergraduate students taking a one semester or two semester, non-majors course in organic chemistry.

Historic public domain books from the medicine field.

Medical literature available freely online.

The QUBES platform hosts hundreds of STEM teaching materials, reference materials, and cloud-based software free to use and adapt using open Creative Commons licenses.

OER journals including: Brain and Behavior, Cancer Medicine, Microbiology Open, and more.

Biology, Anatomy and Physiology are represented.

Including Canadian/Ontario specific resources.

Growing collection of OER textbooks from SUNY.

This group's purpose is to serve as an information hub for the OER Nursing Essentials (O.N.E.) Project, a collaboration between Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and OpenStax at Rice University.

Open textbooks on topics such as biology, anatomy, and physiology.

Open medical texts.

This textbook is designed for the novice learner who is seeking to develop a foundational understanding of the complete subjective health assessment in the context of health and illness.

Readers will learn about the nature of health, health education, health promotion and related concepts. This will help to understand the social, psychological and physical components of health.

The organization and functioning of the human organism generally is discussed in terms of different levels of increasing complexity, from the smallest building blocks to the entire body.

This book is written for students who are not majoring in nutrition, but want to learn about the fundamental aspects of nutrition and how it applies to their own lives. We have written this book with the assumption that you have little or no prior knowledge of college level chemistry, biology, or physiology.

The BCcampus Open Education Virtual Lab and Science Resource Directory lists free science resources designed to support remote science education. This directory is updated as new resources are identified. Note that, while all resources in this directory are free, not all are open. Resources that carry Creative Commons or otherwise open licences are clearly labelled.

This is an OER document that will provide access to credible, evidence-based COVID-19 medical and technical information (including epidemiological data updates and peer-reviewed publications); prevention and treatment information; course syllabi and lessons; policy “white papers;” research- and practice-based “grey literature;” and local community resources.

Practice clinical scenarios and cases.

Health sciences research in the context of this hub refers to finding and using information found in journal articles, books, and other sources. This type of health sciences research requires skills and tools that are specific to the field. This hub will help you navigate the process of finding evidence-based health sciences information. It will help you plan your search, use appropriate databases to find information, evaluate information, and write an academic paper. It also includes a glossary of important terms.

These modules are grounded in The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario’s (HEQCO) A Practical Guide for Work Integrated Learning and represent over 35 hours of rich content that can be used by faculty, career-services staff, and employers to support student learning in applied and work-integrated settings. The modules, licensed under the Creative Commons (CC BY NC 4.0), may be packaged together to create an online course, substantial units of a course, or to supplement WIL experiences within other courses.

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