Robbins Library Resource Guides: Information Literacy: STEM Resources

Open Access STEM Journals

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials and peer-reviewed journals that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission.
The Directory of Open Access Journals was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals and today contains ca. 10000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
Hundreds of open access journals across all disciplines and from scholars around the globe.

TeachingWithData.org
"TeachingWithData.org is a portal of teaching and learning resources and ready-made lesson plans for infusing quantitative literacy into the social science curriculum. A Pathway of the National Science Digital Library, TwD aims to support the social science instructor at secondary and post-secondary schools by presenting user-friendly, data-driven student exercises, pedagogical literature, and much more! Resources are available on a wide range of topics and disciplines."
US Census Bureau Tutorials
Let us show you how to find and use Census data for your everyday uses, including informing your business planning, supporting grant proposals and research projects, planning of local schools and hospitals, and much more! Whether you’re looking for economic or demographic data, we can teach you how to get what you need for your various projects.
Roper Center Public Opinion Archive - Education
The Roper Center provides online tutorials that explain the fundamentals of public polling and basics on how to analyze public opinion polls. Sample assignments for classroom use are included.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Teaching and Learning
ICPSR offers this Online Learning Center that provides instructional tools ready to be integrated into the classroom. ICPSR offers a number of other programs and services that support quantitative skills in the social sciences including the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods.

The mission of The Genetic Literacy Project (GLP) is to aid the public, media and policymakers in understanding the science and societal implications of human and agricultural genetic and biotechnology research and to promote science literacy.
Teach the Earth supports teaching and learning about the Earth by providing online resources for educators in the sciences and related fields. Resources include classroom activities, course descriptions and syllabi, information about pedagogical strategies, topical collections, and more.
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) offers a new, interactive way to learn about the local consequences of global warming. The Climate Hot Map allows students to travel the world, exploring the places (or "hot spots") where scientists have gathered evidence for climate changes that are already underway, and where they are now assessing the risks associated with further warming.
NAGT works to foster improvement in the teaching of the Earth sciences at all levels of formal and informal instruction, to emphasize the cultural significance of the Earth sciences and to disseminate knowledge in this field to the general public. We support research-based teaching through professional development workshops and the sharing of cutting edge teaching materials.
NASA's STEM education resources for educators- resources for all ages, formal and informal settings, etc.