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Open Educational Resources at Cornell: Life Sciences OER

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Biology Labs

Robert Hooke. Schem. XXXIV - Of a Flea. CC 0 via Wikipedia.

  • Virtual Labs Biology Collection
  • Fetal Pig
  • Biology Simulations

Videos, Simulations, Etc.


Video banner, by Gerd Altmann, CC0, via Pixabay.

  • Royal Institute Channel
  • Science Cinema
  • PhET Interactive Simulations
  • National Science Digital Library
  • Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology: Discovering the Unseen World Through Hands-On Investigation

Open Textbooks for Biology


By Peter Southwood (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

  • OpenStax Biology
  • OpenStax Concepts of Biology
  • Human Biochemistry
  • Essentials of Genetics
  • OpenStax Microbiology
  • Biofundamentals
  • Boundless Biology
  • Cell and Molecular Biology : What We Know & How We Found It
  • Foundations of Biology
  • Rediscovering Biology
  • AP Biology
  • Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Microbiology
  • LibreTexts Biology

OER for the Health Sciences


Health Care, CC0, via Pixabay

  • Introduction to Clinical Biochemistry
  • Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
  • HEAL Collection
  • Virtual Cell Animation
  • General Nutrition
  • Health Case Studies

Plant Biology Resources

Leaf, by Hans Braxmeier, CC0, via Pixabay.

  • OpenStax Biology: Unit 6 Plant Structure and Function
  • Khan Academy Biology Videos
  • Crash Course: Biology and Ecology
  • Encyclopedia of Life
  • The Botany of Desire

Ebooks of interest:

  • American Organic: A Cultural History of Farming, Gardening, Shopping, and Eating
  • Seeds, Science, and Struggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops
  • New Oxford Book of Plants
  • Canoe Country Flora
  • Introduction to Permaculture
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