[philonossis]

I am looking for authoritative science texts in chemistry. biology, and other sciences that are current and can be distributed for public benefit without problems with copyright.

A science text must be less than 10 years old because of new research.

I have been able to locate, for example, out-of-copyright books by Darwin, but they would be supplemental. There are complete, out-of-copyright, instructional texts in English, that are dated but still usable. But so far no current intro science texts.

any suggestions appreciated.

[Borek]

A science text must be less than 10 years old because of new research.

A lot depends on the field and level of details, but in General Chemistry 50 years old book will be still actual, there were no groundbreaking discoveries that would change anything that was taught then.

Then there are books listed here:

http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=42212.0

[philonossis]

A science text must be less than 10 years old because of new research.

A lot depends on the field and level of details, but in General Chemistry 50 years old book will be still actual, there were no groundbreaking discoveries that would change anything that was taught then.

Then there are books listed here:

http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=42212.0

thanks a great deal.

the first listing on the linked page is:
http://preparatorychemistry.com. This material is copyrighted 2010 and Bishop is asking for $20 for repeated use.

The second listing on the page is www.ChemReview.Net, and is also copyrighted material and has restrictions on use.

The third listing:
http://bbruner.org/net_chem.htm#Textbooks, has some licenses described as "other" and two under creative commons. Since I am just looking for intro courses, there might be some usable material here.

This listing, http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/, has what appears to be a complete intro chem course online.

http://wiki.chemprime.chemeddl.org/index.php/Main_Page. Many of the links at this site have no text.

The last one has these notices at the bottom:

"These pages are the property of William Reusch.
©1999 William Reusch, All rights reserved   .

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License."

I would have to contact Reusch to see if I would be able to use these as the basis for instruction without paying Reusch royalties, as long as no profit came to me.

[FreeTheBee]

You can check open access journals,

http://www.doaj.org/

[philonossis]

You can check open access journals,

http://www.doaj.org/

thanks very much for responding, but I think this site is mainly for articles that would be at post-graduate level in chemistry if not most of the subjects.

[jeffrey.struss]

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Chemistry

There are a few (as in three) nearly complete wikibooks.

[philonossis]

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Chemistry

There are a few (as in three) nearly complete wikibooks.

thanks for this. I think the Wiki General Chemistry site is a complete intro textbook.

[Fleaker]

http://www.sciencemadness.org/

check out the library. Plenty of good stuff there!

[philonossis]

http://www.sciencemadness.org/

check out the library. Plenty of good stuff there!

thanks for the reference but for some reason only the cyber gods know, none of the links in the library will open for me.

but the main site is nice, thanks mucho

[enahs]

http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/virtualtextbook.html