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Online Textbooks and Teaching Materials

A guide for faculty to help locate and use online textbooks, and Open Education Resources (OER)

Biology

On this page you will find several open Biology textbooks along with supplemental material and a few lecture videos.  Photo of National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium- kelp forest tank

The purpose of these discipline specific pages is to showcase content that might be of interest to faculty who are considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes. This list of content is by no means exhaustive.  The nature of open educational resources is very collaborative and it is in that spirit that we encourage any comments about the content featured on this page or recommendations of content that are not already listed here. 

Image retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Marine_Biology_and_Aquarium

Textbooks

General Biology

Microbiology

Anatomy & Physiology