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OER by Discipline: Health Science

Open Access Textbooks

Merlot II--Nursing and Nursing Education: Includes books on pharmacology, nursing basics, patient care, and microbiology.
Open Textbook Library--Natural and Physical Sciences: While the majority of this section focuses on the physical sciences, it does contain some textbooks on anatomy, nursing, health interventions, and patient care.

Open Access Journals

Digital Commons Network--Medicine and Health Sciences: Contains open access journals that cover different types of nursing including maternal, child health, critical care, public health, and surgical nursing, to name a few.
Directory of Open Access Journals--Medicine: Not only does this directory have journals about nursing, but also general medicine, pharamacology, surgery, internal medicine, and much more.

Open Access Multimedia

Khan Academy--NCLEX-RN Test Prep: Contains videos explaining physiology and diseases as well as practice questions for the NCLEX-RN Test.

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