OER Index – Science & Health

Open Educational Resources or OERs are freely accessible resources such as textbooks, lecture slides or videos. This benefits teachers and students alike as it means that the resources are accessible anywhere, to anyone, for free.

To access OERs by name use the A–Z listing below.

For more information regarding Open Educational Resources please see our Libguide

Anatomy & Physiology

Anatomy and Physiology (Open Stax).

Human Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Course.

Interactive Anatomy.

Biology

Biology – 2e (OpenStax).

Concepts of Biology (OpenStax).

Human Biology.

Basic Cell and Molecular Biology: What We Know & How We Found Out – 3e.

Chemistry

Chemistry (Open Textbook Library).

Chemistry (Merlot).

Chemistry 2e (OpenStax).

Chemistry: Atoms First 2e (OpenStax).

Dentistry

Dentistry (Merlot).

Interface Oral Health Science 2016.

Advanced Anatomy Head and Neck.

Introduction to Dental Terminology.

Oral Radiographic Differential Diagnosis.

Exercise

Exercise Science (Merlot).

Immunology

Immunology (Merlot).

Law

OSCOLA Citation Guide<.

Medicine

Medicine (Open Textbook Library).

Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals.

Microbiology

Microbiology (OpenStax).

Boundless Microbiology.

Nursing

Nursing (Merlot).

Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know.

Field Trials of Health Interventions, 3rd edition.

Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care.

Physics

Physics (Merlot).

University Physics Volume 1.

University Physics Volume 2.

University Physics Volume 3.

The Adventure of Physics – Vol. I: Fall, Flow, and Heat.

Boundless Physics (Lumen).

The resource contains a variety of open quizzes, lecture slides, tutorial videos and downloadable ePub files for use offline.

Politics

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class: New Voting Patterns.

Politics in 60 seconds: Social democracy (Video).

Polymer Engineering

OER metafinder search.

Courses in Polymer Engineering

Psychology

Abnormal Psychology Course (OER Commons).

Introduction to Psychology.

Psychology (Noba Project).

Noba is an OER project that provides open psychology textbooks for free online, or to purchase hard copies at a low cost.

Psychology as a Social Science.

Psychology (OpenStax).

Psychology (Merlot).

Research Methods in Psychology – 4th American Edition.

The Social Nature of Emotions.

Together: The Science of Social Psychology.

Research Methods

Research Methods Handbook .

Principles of Sociological Inquiry – Qualitative and Quantitative Methods.

The Media and Communications Study Skills Student Guide.

What is Qualitative Research?

What is Narrative Research?

What is Inclusive Research?

What are Qualitative Research Ethics?

Asking about Gender and Sexual Orientation in your Questionnaire.

Pioneering Ethics in a Longitudinal Study.

Systematic Reviews in Educational Research.

Research Ethics for Students in the Social Sciences.

Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education.

What is Qualitative Longitudinal Research?

Learning to Manage and Share Data.

Qualitative Data Collection in an Era of Social Distancing

Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Case Studies from South Africa.

Using Twitter as a data source: An overview of ethical, legal and methodological challenge.

A Quick Guide to Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences.

Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research.

Graduate Research Methods in Social Work.

Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, Practices.

Research Methods in Social Psychology.

Research Methods in Developmental Psychology.

A research handbook for patient and public involvement researchers.

Qualitative Analysis and Documentary Method: In International Educational Research.

Queer Methods and Methodologies Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research.

Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods.

Research Methods Knowledge Base.

Introduction to Political Science Research Methods.

Studying Trans: Recommendations for Ethical Recruitment and Collaboration with Transgender Participants in Academic Research.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics.

Social Science

Issues Around Aligning Theory, Research and Practice in Social Work Education.

Intro to Case Notes for new social workers.

Scientific Inquiry in Social Work.

Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins.

Research Methods for the Social Sciences (Lumen).

Statistics for the Social Sciences (Lumen).

Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices.

Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices (Revised Edition)

Open Textbooks for Social Work (Go to “Education” and then “Adopt an Open Textbook” to access)

Sociology

Introduction to Sociology

Introduction to Sociology (Course)

Toxicology

Toxicology (Merlot).

Principles of Toxicology.

Transfusion

Transfusion Evidence Library.

The Transfusion Evidence Library is an information resource that provides access to evidence-based publications (Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trial and Health Economic Evaluations) on all aspects of transfusion medicine, and expert Clinical Commentaries on selected studies.