Discipline specific OER for academics

Marine, Freshwater and Aquaculture Sciences

This page is designed to support academics with teaching by providing a wealth of OER specifically for Marine, Freshwater and Aquaculture Sciences.

Explore our curated collection that highlights Australian OER, and resources on the following topics:

• Aquaculture and Fisheries
• Marine Biology

NOTE: While there is currently limited Australian-specific OER on these subjects, we encourage you to explore international OER and consider adapting these materials to better suit local contexts and curriculum needs.

Aquaculture and Fisheries

• Emerging Technologies, Environment and Research for Sustainable Aquaculture by Qian Lu and Mohammad Serajuddin (Eds.) (2020), IntechOpen, is licensed under CC BY 3.0
• Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Modern World by Heimo Mikkola (Ed.) (2016), IntechOpen, is licensed under CC BY 3.0

Marine Biology 

• A Student’s Guide to Tropical Marine Biology, 2nd edition by Haley Zanga, Audrey Boraski and Alana Olendorf (Eds.) (2022), Keene State College, is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 
• Videos on Oceanography, Marine Science, Marine Bioscience by University of California, (2020), is licensed under All rights reserved.

Where to find more OER?

There are many platforms available that contain OER, the platforms listed below are a good starting place to find resources on marine, freshwater and aquaculture sciences.

• NSDL: National Science Digital Library
  Repository gathers all possible online open resources from various providers in all STEM disciplines. Resources are browsable by education level, resource type, and subject. Even though most resources are free on this site, there are also some that have some cost associated with them.
• IntechOpen - Open Access Book
  World’s largest Science, Technology & Medicine Open Access book publisher. The website contains more than 3,000 open access books distributed under CC BY 3.0 license in various subjects.