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On this page you will find open access Chemistry textbooks along with supplemental materials. This list of content is by no means exhaustive. The nature of open educational resources is very collaborative and we encourage comments about the content featured on this page, or recommendations of content that are not found here.

Chemistry Textbooks

Crystallization - Science and Technology - Crystallization is one of the most ancient and interdisciplinary topics of research known to mankind. Crystals can be organic or inorganic and may be produced from melts, liquid solutions, vapors or even in solid state. Notwithstanding its inherently high complexity, the crystallization process is part of our everyday lives, from ice making in our homes to the most state-of-the-art chemical and electronic industry.
Atomic Force Microscopy - Imaging, Measuring and Manipulating Surfaces at the Atomic Scale - a collection of current research from scientists throughout the world that employ atomic force microscopy in their investigations.
Chemical Kinetics - a book is designed to help the reader, particularly students and researchers of physical science, understand the chemical kinetics mechanics and chemical reactions.

Chemistry Collections

InTech - Top 100 Cited - Chemistry Textbooks
Many textbooks on various topics including materials science, hydrogenation and much more...
Chemistry - BCcampus OpenED
A collection of textbooks on introductory and analytical chemistry.
Chemistry - College Open Textbooks
A collection of textbooks on topics which include environmental chemistry, industrial chemistry, volumetric chemical analysis, as well as many more.

Chemistry Resources

ACS Education Resources
Education resources from the American Chemical Society.
ChemCollective
The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests. Teachers can use our content for pre-labs, for alternatives to textbook homework, and for in-class activities for individuals or teams. Students can review and learn chemistry concepts using our virtual labs, simulations, and tutorials.
ChemEdDL
ChemEdDL Chemical Education Digital Library for undergraduates from the American Chemical Society
Chemistry Learning Center
A series of tutorials on basic Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois.
ChemWiki - UC Davis
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
Explore OpenCourseWare
Search for courses, materials & teaching resources
HippoCampus: Real World Chemistry
A series from the NASA collection.
The Khan Academy
Classes on atoms, compounds & ions, chemical reactions & stoichiometry, and many other topics.
Lab Write: Improving Lab Reports
An innovative/online approach to science labs with in time instruction for students writing lab reports.
LibreTexts
A collection of textbooks and visual simulations on topics such as analytical chemistry, biological chemistry, inorganic chemistry and much more.
MERLOT II
Multimedia educational resources for learning and online teaching which cover many different chemistry topics.
MIT OpenCourseware
Textbooks, simulations and lectures an topics such as principles of chemical science, laboratory chemistry, thermodynamics & kinetics and a lot more.
NanoHUB
Created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology, and provides online presentations, courses, learning modules, podcasts, animations, and teaching materials.
Organic Structure Elucidation - Notre Dame
This online workbook has been developed for senior undergraduate and graduate students learning to solve the structures of organic compounds from spectroscopic data.
PhET - University of Colorado Boulder
Interactive simulations designed to help students engage in science through inquiry, using design principles such as making the invisible visible, and using real-world connections.
PubChem
This open chemistry database allows users to search for structures and bioassay data, compounds, and substances.
TedEd
Nearly 100 fun lessons on topics of chemistry.
UCI Open
A full curriculum of recorded lectures covering undergraduate chemistry plus selected graduate topics. Lecture videos and ancillary materials, which allow anyone in the world to sit alongside UCI Irvine students and view complete undergraduate core and elective course lectures delivered by top faculty members. UCI's goal is to provide resources not only for learners, but for instructors, as well.
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
This open code resource is expanding daily as users contribute interactive illustrations to show concepts in a wide variety of topics.

Open Access Chemistry Journals

ACS Central Science
Publishes primary reports on research in chemistry and in allied fields, wherein chemical approaches play a key role.
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
Publishes research and reviews in all areas of organic chemistry, including organic synthesis, organic reactions, natural product chemistry, structural investigations, supramolecular chemistry and chemical biology.
Chemical Science
A journal for findings of exceptional significance from across the chemical sciences.
Chemistry Open
A multidisciplinary international forum for the publication of reviews, full papers, and communications from all areas of chemistry and related fields. It is co-owned by 16 continental European Chemical Societies, who have banded together in the alliance called ChemPubSoc Europe for the purpose of publishing high-quality journals in the field of chemistry and its border disciplines.
Springer Open - Chemistry
A collection of open journals featuring topics in chemistry.

Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP)

Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP)
Publisher of more than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines serving the worldwide academic communities and contributing to the progress and application of science.

OER collections and repositories

Creative Commons Portal
The CC Search Portal helps you search CC licensed works across multiple platforms.
HippoCampus
"Free educational resources for middle school to college."
The Mason OER Metafinder
Real-time federated search for OER content from George Mason University.
MERLOT
"MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community."
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 73 different sources and contains 171,998 records.
OER Commons
"We are a dynamic digital content hub offering a suite of OER supports. From roadmaps to training to tools, we'll get the right OER to your students."
Open Educational Resources : Internet Archive
"This library contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download."
OpenStax CNX
"View and share free educational material in small modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports or other academic assignments."
Search Creative Commons
Search for Creative Commons materials by format: images, video, audio, and books.
Wikimedia Commons
"A database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute."

Open lessons and courses

Academic Earth
Free online lectures from universities such as Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale. Subjects covered include: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion.
webcast.berkeley
"UC Berkeley's central service for online video & audio for students and learners around the globe."
Open Yale Courses
"Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn."
MIT OpenCourseWare
"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity."
Open Course Library
"A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download."
Khan Academy
"Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom."

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