Open Educational Resources Guide: STEM OER Workshop

STEM OER Resources

Textbooks

INTECH
Books covering Engineering, Science, Technology, and Medicine.
National Academies Press
More than 4000 freely downloadable books on science, engineering, and health policy
OpenTextbookStore
Open math textbooks, provided by faculty at Washington State Community and Technical Colleges.
OpenStax
OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, that has published more than 20 open source, peer-reviewed, textbooks in common undergraduate subjects like Algebra, History, and Psychology. They also maintain the OpenStax CNX, a place to view and share free educational material in modules.

Course Material

LibreTexts
Textbooks and supplementary materials for chemistry, biology, geology, mathematics, physics, and engineering.
MIT Open Courseware
A web-based publication of most MIT course content, including syllabi, readings, assignments, exams, and study material.
National Science Digital Library
Includes data sets, illustrations, case studies, assignments, lesson plans, full courses, and more.

Images, Video, and Simulations

ChemCollective
Virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests.
PHeT Interactive Simulations
Interactive, research-based simulations.
STEM Concept Videos
Videos and instructor guides produced by the Teaching and Learning Lab at MIT.
Wikimedia Commons
A large collection of images and video that are openly licensed or in the public domain.

Units of Measurement

The Metric System and Measurement
This chapter from a LibreText biology textbook goes over units of measurement.
Units of Measurement
This section from a Lumen OER discusses unit of measurement and conversion.

STEM Library Resources

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
IEEE publications and standards in engineering, computer science, and related fields.
Knovel This link opens in a new window
Engineering and science books including ASM Handbooks.
SIAM e-books This link opens in a new window
Books published by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Synthesis Collection of Technology This link opens in a new window
Engineering & computer science works.
Springer Link This link opens in a new window
Scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works published by Springer.

Starting Points for Licensed Educational Resources

Databases A-Z: articles & more
Alexander Street Collections
Digital collections covering a wide range of disciplines. Includes videos, clips, audio, images, books, and other documents. The UW Libraries has a perpetual license to nearly all the content in these collections.
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Collections Include:
• American film scripts online
• Black drama
• Black studies in video
• Counseling and therapy in video
• Dance Online: Dance in Video
• Dance Online: Dance in Video Volume 2
• Docuseek2 : complete collection
• Environmental studies in video
• Ethnographic video online
• Filmakers library online
• Human rights studies online
• Latin American women writers
• LGBT studies in video
• LGBT thought and culture
• Music Online: American Music
• Music Online: Classical Music Library
• Music online: Classical Scores Library v.2
• Music Online: Contemporary world music
• Music Online: Jazz Music Library
• Music Online: Opera in Video
• Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
• New World Cinema
• North American Indian drama
• North American women's letters and diaries
• Silent film
• Sixties
• Theatre in video
• Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
• Women and social movements in modern empires since 1820
• Women and social movements in the U.S.
• Women and social movements, international : 1840 to present

Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Full text encyclopedias in all subject areas
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and books in all disciplines.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Collection of humanities & social sciences electronic journals & 20,000+ ebooks.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Articles, journals, and books published by Wiley across a variety of disciplines.

Adopting eBooks as Course Texts

Ebooks provided through the library can be a great alternative to using expensive textbooks. However not all ebooks allow multiple, simultaneous users. You'll need to check the licensing terms. You can find this info in the UW Libraries Search record for the ebook. Look for the "view license terms" link. Does it allow unlimited users?