InfoGuides: Free and Open Resources: Chemistry

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On this page you will find several openly-licensed textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.

Discipline-specific pages are not intended to be exhaustive, but to showcase some available materials.

Open Textbooks

Biochemistry: Free for All, Oregon State University, CC-BY-NC

CLUE: Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything, Michael Klymkowsky and Melanie Cooper, CC-BY

Chemistry: Atoms First, OpenStax, CC-BY

Find more open textbooks in chemistry here.

Course Materials: Lectures, Videos, etc.

PhET provides a collection of fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the University of Colorado.

Elements: The Periodic Table. Interactive periodic table provides information on the properties, history, name origin, images, application, hazards and electron shell diagram of each element. Source code available under a MIT License.

MIT OpenCourseWare: Chemistry. Courses in chemistry as taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Content varies but can include lecture notes, videos, assignments with solutions etc. CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license but courses may refer to copyright material.