Subject and Course Guides: Free Resources by College: Nursing and Health Innovation

Labs and Simulations

There are a number of open source resources available for labs and simulations. Below are few of the links that can be used to locate images, streaming videos for your courses.

Digital Commons Network - medicine & health sciences

Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Includes peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

OPENPediatrics

OPENPediatrics is an open access educational platform and online community of clinicians sharing best practices from all resource settings around the world through innovative collaboration and digital learning technologies.

Open Resources

InTech - medicine

InTech is the publisher of one of the largest multidisciplinary open access collection of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Open Knowledge Repository - World Bank

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

Public Resources

Clinical Simulation
Fully opensource software package providing a complete pipeline from medical image data segmentation to patient specific blood flow simulation and analysis.
Europe PMC
The core mission of Europe PMC (http://europepmc.org) is to build open, full-text scientific literature resources and support innovation by engaging users, enabling contributors and integrating related research data.
MERLOT materials
Use the advance search filter feature to get resources that best suit your course. Once logged in to Merlot under Other Attributes select Simulation in Material Types. Choose College General Ed/ Graduate School for Audience. You can also choose desired Technical Format. Click on Search.
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
A collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.
MedEdPORTAL
MedEdPORTAL Publications promotes educational scholarship and collaboration by facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed health education teaching and assessment resources.