By Richard B. Primack
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” Henry David Thoreau in Walden.
Open Access publishing is the best way to make books available to a wide audience across Africa. Students can download our Open Access book, Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa, for free on a wide variety of devices. Over the last 4 years, this book has been downloaded over 45,000 times and is being widely used for teaching across the region.
At the August 2023 International Conference on Conservation Biology (ICCB) in Rwanda, Eric Nana, John Wilson (also known as Johnny Birder) and I told hundreds of people about the upcoming second edition and a new French edition. People were enthusiastic about gaining access to such a valuable book without having to pay.
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| Photo: Richard Primack, Eric Nana, and John Wilson (Johnny Birder) at the ICCB conference. |
We published our Open Access book with Open Book Publishers. Here is link to an interview that we recently did discussing the advantages of Open Access publishing to reach a wider audience: LINK
And here is a link to an article that we wrote about these advantages: LINK
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