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Open Educational Resources: BIOLOGY/LIFE SCIENCES

How to find, adopt, adapt, and create open educational resources.

OERs

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

This guide includes collections of OERs and other freely available online educational resources. Quality, accessibility, and copyright of the materials may vary.

Try the California State University: Course Materials Finder Tool  - Enter a book's ISBN to search for freely available related materials related to the book.

Featured Resources: Biology OER

Finding OERs by Discipline

Open Textbooks

 
 

Open Courseware

 

 

General Biology-related OER

Lab manuals, Interactive materials & simulations
             *many of the simulations and videos are view/use only (i.e. not adaptable)