Acknowledgements
Funding Acknowledgement
Funded by the Government of Ontario.The views expressed in this publication are the views of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Ontario or the Ontario Online Learning Consortium.
This open educational resource (OER) textbook was developed collaboratively by Georgian College, and Loyalist College. Each institution generously provided additional support, with contributors noted below.
Contributors
Content Authors
- Gregory A. Anderson, HBSc, MSc, PhD – Georgian College
- Caryn Fahey, BSc, MEd – Loyalist College
- Adrienne Richards, HBSc, MSc – Georgian College
- Samantha Sullivan Sauer, HBSc, MASc, BEd – Georgian College
- David Wegman, HBSc, PhD – Georgian College
Copyright, AODA & Tech Support
- Jen Booth, BA, MISt – Georgian College
Additional Supports
- Revathi Mahadevan – Georgian College
- Jessica Jones – Georgian College
Original OER Sources
This OER, Organic and Biochemistry Supplement to Enhanced Introductory College Chemistry, is a collection of resources adapted to meet the needs of students in introductory organic chemistry courses. In most sections of this OER, updates have been made to the existing content to improve usability and accessibility, incorporate interactive elements and improve the overall student experience. Except where otherwise noted, images and diagrams are derived from the source attributed at the end of each page.
Much of the OER chemistry content available on the web is derived from a few key sources. In this OER, we’ve attempted to provide clear attribution to the sources we used, while also acknowledging those original sources. Often, the differences in derivatives from those key original sources is minor. We’ve done our best to provide accurate attribution. Ancillary resources for this textbook include an image bank in PPT format, and for this reason, we’ve attempted to attribute the images throughout the text to their original source, since they’ll be used separately from the textbook.
Attribution is complicated for these sources, due to a large amount of remixing and re purposing of chemistry content on various platforms. In some cases, pages within the same book are shared under different licenses, and this chemistry text reflects the original licenses. Individual source content is identified on each page of this text, and has been remixed as permitted by the licenses of the source text to improve reading flow, enhance student understanding, and streamline to meet the needs of Georgian and Loyalist students.
The following key sources (and their derivatives) were reused in this textbook:
- Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry (Ball et al.) by David W. Ball, John W. Hill, and Rhonda J. Scott via LibreTexts, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0./ A LibreTexts version of Introduction to Chemistry: GOB (v. 1.0), CC BY-NC 3.0.
- Compound Interest: Chemistry infographics by Andy Brunning, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Crash Course Chemistry: Organic Chemistry on YouTube, shared under the Standard YouTube license.
- Map: Fundamentals of General Organic and Biological Chemistry (McMurry et al.), CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, a remixed version of Basics of GOB (Ball et al.), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 which is a LibreTexts version of Introduction to Chemistry: GOB (v. 1.0), CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- General Chemistry 1 & 2 by Rice University, a derivative of Chemistry (Open Stax) by Paul Flowers, Klaus Theopold, Richard Langley & William R. Robinson and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Access for free at Chemistry (OpenStax)
- Organic Chemistry (OpenStax) by John McMurray, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Access for free at Organic Chemistry (OpenStax)
- Map: Organic Chemistry (Wade), Complete and Semesters I and II, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Organic and Biochemistry Supplement to Enhanced Introductory College Chemistry is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, except where otherwise noted. Individual sections, content, images and activities are marked with their relevant copyright and open licensing information.
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- Third-party images, text and other materials are marked with references in APA format, modified to be accessible as per the APA website [New tab]
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