On this page you will find several open Chemistry textbooks along with supplemental material and a few lecture videos.
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.
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Introductory Chemistry -David W. Ball David W. Ball of Cleveland State University brings his new survey of general chemistry text, Introductory Chemistry. This book is intended for a one-semester introductory or preparatory chemistry course. Throughout the chapters, David presents two features that reinforce the theme of the textbook, that chemistry is everywhere. Author: Dr. David W. Ball, Cleveland State University, Chemistry Introductory Chemistry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
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Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. These materials can be used in a traditional classroom, an accredited or respected institution, a home-school environment, or for self-learning. Wikibooks are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
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Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry -William Reusch This virtual textbook allows for visualization of 3D-molecular models while teaching principles of Organic Chemistry. Author: William Reusch, Michigan State University, Chemistry This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivitaves 2.0 License.
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This text has a complete index. Each entry in its index is denoted with a symbol noting its completeness. It appears to be a mature-developing text. It is full of well composed diagrams and well organized text. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 license.
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Thermodynamics and Chemistry -Howard Devore
Thermodynamics and Chemistry is designed primarily as a textbook for a one-semester course in classical chemical thermodynamics at the graduate or undergraduate level. It can also serve as a supplementary text and thermodynamics reference source.
Author:
Howard DeVoe, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
This text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
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