Open Books
- Anatomy and Physiology 2e (OpenStax)
“Anatomy and Physiology 2e is developed to meet the scope and sequence for a two-semester human anatomy and physiology course for life science and allied health majors. The book is organized by body systems. The revision focuses on inclusive and equitable instruction and includes new student support.” - Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care
“This open educational resource (OER) was developed to ensure best practice and quality care based on the latest evidence, and to address inconsistencies in how clinical health care skills are taught and practised in the clinical setting. The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current.” - Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care – Thompson Rivers University Edition
This book is an adaptation of Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care. - Microbiology for Allied Health Students with supplemental lab manual and instructional materials
“This open textbook is a remix of OpenStax Microbiology, CC BY 4.0, and created through an Affordable Learning Georgia Round Six Textbook Transformation Grant. Microbiology for Allied Health Students is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements for the single semester Microbiology course for non-majors and allied health students.”
Additional Open and Zero-cost Resources
- Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies
The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine “Identifies concerns in medical research, care, and education and examines policy matters relating to health care and public health.” The reports of the National Academies are not openly licensed, but they are freely available online. - Medical Math & Dosage Calculations for the Health Care Worker, Part 1
“In this module you will learn the basics of Medical Math and how to calculate basic medication dosages.” The files can be uploaded to a Learning Management System (LMS) like Blackboard or read in a browser. - MERLOT Health Sciences Community Portal
- MERLOT Technical Allied Health Community Portal
- Plague Diaries: Firsthand Accounts of Epidemics, 430 B.C. to A.D. 1918
“This project originated in response to the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the globe and its various knock-on effects. We created a small collection of openly available primary documents discussing epidemics from the past, such as the Black Death in Europe in the mid-fourteenth century and smallpox hitting northern Michigan in the nineteenth.” - PubMed Central
“PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).”
