Open Educational Resources by Subject Disciplines

From OpenStax CNX

From Galileo Open Learning Materials

From OpenStax

From BC Campus. List of biology OER textbooks.

From OpenStax

From Open Textbook Library

From OpenStax

From Galileo

CourseSource is an open-access journal of peer-reviewed teaching resources for undergraduate biological sciences.

Galileo Open Learning Materials

Direct link to the lab manual

Open Textbook Library

From LibreText

Merlot

OER Commons

Beagley customized the OpenStax textbook content, highlighting keywords that students should follow and linking them to relevant worksheets and videos. Beagley from Salt Lake Community College.

Also by Beagley, Salt Lake Community College, a microbiology lab manual to go with OpenStax Microbiology

The Cell: An Image Library™ is a freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, showcasing cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes.

NIGMS offers scientific images and videos, plus scientist interviews, profiles and photos.

From the US National Library of Medicine

Funded by The National Science Foundation, the goal of this exhibit is to use molecular illustration and animation to help describe origins of life research and theories to broad audiences.

Inside the Cell is a science education booklet that explores the interior design of cells and vividly describes the processes that take place within its organelles and structures. Each chapter includes a few review questions.

The New Genetics, a science education booklet published by National Institute of General Medical Sciences, explains the role of genes in health and disease, the basics of DNA and its molecular cousin RNA, and new directions in genetic research.

Free resources for science teachers and students.

The world's leaders in biology present lectures that start with broad introductions and then progress to research questions and experiments.

Covers topics seen in a first year college or high school biology course.

Videos on the life sciences from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Key biological concepts animated as narrated and stepped tutorials, along with quizzes.

Sumanas, Inc. develops animated tutorials in a variety of formats for many scientific disciplines.

"We are pleased to offer you a partial preview of our new Tour of Basic Genetics."

A one-semester introductory eviolutionary and molecular biology course

The Department of Biology offers undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral training programs ranging from general biology to more specialized fields of study and research.

Free resources for science teachers and students.

CELLS alive! represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research.

Extensive list of biology animations and videos covering a wide range of topics from the BBC, McGraw Hill, Carnegie Mellon, and more.

PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. The open source simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer

This unit helps you understand the properties of nucleotides and how they contribute to secondary and tertiary structures of nucleic acids at the molecular level.

A free online lab manual that includes general laboratory procedures, equipment use and safety considerations. CC license

Try it yourself in the mouse cloning laboratory.

"Starting from atoms, see how many molecules you can build. Collect your molecules and see them in 3D!"