Publishing an Open Access Textbook on Environmental Sciences: Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Richard B. Primack and John W. Wilson. The book contains hundreds of photographs from Africa, such as this cheetah family, which are published as CC BY 4.0. Photograph by Markus Lilje, CC BY 4.0. For the past six years we have been working to produce the first

Why is open education resource creation, management and publishing important? Reflections for Open Book Publishers on Open Education Week 2020

Read this post to find out more about the take our authors and contributors have on OER creation, management and publishing.

Is prestige a problem? Considering the usefulness of prestige in academic book publishing

A reliance on prestige in academic publishing limits the choice of authors and the accessibility of research, and it deadens innovation. What might we replace it with?

Open education is key to the future of learning

Photo by Nathan Dumlao [https://unsplash.com/@nate_dumlao?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/open-sign?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] Education is the key to human development and social mobility. Education is also the engine

What We Talk About When We Talk About… Book Usage Data

An easy-to-understand explanation of how we collect our book usage data, and why we have started to present it differently.