Research Guides: Affordable Learning @ Savannah State University: An initiative to promote student success by providing affordable alternatives to textbooks : Chemistry

Open Textbooks - CHEMISTRY

Agricultural Chemistry by Margarita Stoytcheva
Publication Date: 2013
The present book is a collection of ten original research articles and reports, associated with selected topics in agricultural chemistry. The discussed issues are organized in four sections: Classification and labeling of active substances in plant protection products, Environmental and stress plant physiology and behavior, Antimicrobial and antioxidant potential of plant extracts, and Pollutants analysis and effects. The information provided in this book should be of interest for academic researchers and for agriculturalists.
Concept Development Studies in Chemistry by John Hutchinson
An on-line textbook appropriate for an Introductory General Chemistry course. Each module develops a central concept in Chemistry from experimental observations and inductive reasoning. This approach complements an interactive or active learning teaching approach.
ChemWiki by Delmar Larsen
The ChemWiki project is a new approach toward chemistry education where an Open Access textbook environment is constantly being written and re-written partly by students and partly by faculty members resulting in a free Chemistry textbook to supplement or supplant conventional paper-based books. Anyone can view, although a freely available account is required to edit the site modules. The UCD ChemWiki was created and is currently directed by Prof. Delmar Larsen in the Chemistry department at UC Davis.
Essentials of Chemistry by Peter Dybdahl Hede, Soren Prip Beier
This is a free, online textbook offered by Bookboon.com. This book is written primarily to engineering students in the fields of basic chemistry, environmental chemistry, food production, chemical and biochemical engineering who in the beginning of their university studies receive education in inorganic chemistry and applied chemistry in general.
Introductory Chemistry by David Ball
Publication Date: 2014
Here I will survey some of the basic topics of chemistry. This survey should give you enough knowledge to appreciate the impact of chemistry in everyday life and, if necessary, prepare you for additional instruction in chemistry. Throughout each chapter, I present two features that reinforce the theme of the textbook—that chemistry is all around you.
Organic Chemistry by Sally Daley, Richard Daley
Publication Date: 2008
The Daleys are offering Organic Chemistry for free to students and teachers. It’s been so popular that to save bandwidth, they now require registration before you can download the PDF. By all accounts, the book is quite good.
Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry by William Reusch
Publication Date: 2009
This open textbook provides general principles and functional group reactions. Interactive practice problems provided.

Supplemental Open Access Resources

Interactive Simulations for General Chemistry

- The collection of interactive simulations covers a wide range of general chemistry topics, with each simulation addressing key concepts and enable students to practice and teachers to demostrate these topics.

Virtual Chemistry Laboratory

- Here's your chance to mix chemicals without wearing safety goggles. You won't spill any acid on the spectrometer in this lab. Choose solutions from the vast database and mix 'em together till the cloned cows come home. Marvel as the chemical solutions react in real time.

VR Molecules

- VR Molecules presents dynamically and interactively the vibration and rotation modes for 24 molecules (out of a more extensive list) containing up to twelve atoms. It allows the user to create and save on his or her hard disk documents containing, much in the same way as Power Point presentations, up to 10 "pages", each featuring one or two molecules with specific parameters (viewpoint, active modes, etc.). These presentations can be made available through the Internet, with optional sound and text explanations associated with each page.