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OERs: College of Health Sciences and Human Performance

Nursing: Major collection of OER Materials

MERLOT OER Nursing Materials, Multimedia educational resources for learning and online training.

MERLOT Health Science Community Portal, MERLOT Health Sciences Portal, an educational resource for health professionals. MERLOT is free and contribute to this growing community of health professionals, health professional educators, and students by using the learning materials, submitting your own modules and assignments for evaluation, and learning ideas to help you learn as well as teach in a variety of settings.

OER Commons Nursing Resources, Includes simulation, case studies, courses. Lesson plans, and more under the Creative Commons licenses attribution.

Skills Commons Nursing OER Resources

WISC-Online Nursing Resources

OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search), Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.

Open Textbooks

NCBI Bookshelf, Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare, search, read, and discover.

Open Textbook Library, Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

Directory of Open Access Books, Directory of Open Access Books is a joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université.

Open SUNY Textbooks, Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne open textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.

BC Open Textbooks, Open textbooks adapted and created by BC faculty.

OpenStax CNX, OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print. For all our available formats, visit openstax.org and select the subject that interests you.

Open RN-Open Educational Resources for Nursing, “The project is led by Chippewa Valley Technical College, and the textbooks are being collaboratively written with faculty from Wisconsin technical colleges. The books will be reviewed by statewide nursing faculty, deans, healthcare alliance members, and other industry representatives to ensure the content is current and accurate”(Open RN | CVTC) .

Open Access Nursing Journals

Clinical Nursing Studies, International peer-reviewed and open access journal for the clinical nursing specialists.

Journal of Nursing, is an Open Access (Gold OA), peer reviewed, international online publishing journal that aims to publish premier papers on all the areas of advanced research carried on in its field.

Nursing Research and Practice, Fully open access journal publishers.

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics, Powered by the HIMSS Foundation and the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community, the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics is a free, international, peer-reviewed publication that is published three times a year and supports all functional areas of nursing informatics. The journal was launched in 1996, with readership spanning over 49 countries.

Open Courseware

Open NYS/Lumen Learning, From SUNY/Cuny

JHSPH Open Courseware, From Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health