Open Educational Resources (OER): Psychology

This subset of the MERLOT collection features openly licensed textbooks for use by students and faculty.

The Open Textbook Library is a collection of open textbooks that features reviews written by professors.

The College Open Textbooks Collaborative is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges.

The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources.

Psychology 2e is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research.

This textbook presents core concepts common to introductory courses. The 15 units cover the traditional areas of intro-to-psychology; ranging from biological aspects of psychology to psychological disorders to social psychology.

An open access textbook designed primarily for use by first and second year undergraduate students.

This textbook was created to provide an engaging and personally relevant overview of the discipline of Abnormal Psychology. It introduces the theories useful for understanding the cognitive and behavioral patterns which impair personal effectiveness and adjustment.

This textbook introduces the idea of lifespan development from a psychological perspective.

Examples, cases, and research findings taken from the wide range of phenomena studied by cognitive scientists effectively explain and explore the relationship among the three perspectives.

A comprehensive textbook for research methods classes.

This course will provide students with the fundamentals of linguistic and psycholinguistic theory. Students will explore the nature of language and learn about the basic components studied by psycholinguists.

A free textbook teaching introductory statistics for undergraduates in psychology, including a lab manual, and course website.

These podcasts provide an introduction to core topics in psychiatry, and to research undertaken in the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry. This series is relevant to health-care professionals and members of the public. The topic podcasts are particularly relevant to medical students studying psychiatry.

BrainFacts.org shares the stories of scientific discovery and the knowledge they reveal. This interactive brain model is powered by the Wellcome Trust and developed by Matt Wimsatt and Jack Simpson.