THE SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY PROVIDES SPECIAL
BENEFITS TO MEMBERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Free online access to publications

The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB), in collaboration with Blackwell Publishing and Elsevier Publishing, announces that online access to Conservation Biology, Conservation magazine, and Biological Conservation is now free to SCB members in developing countries. Elsevier has also added Ecological Indicators, Ecological Complexity, and Ecological Informatics to the free publications these will be available soon. SCB is also negotiating to acquire similar access to a suite of other conservation-related journals from a variety of publishers, including additional titles from Blackwell and Elsevier.

These publications are available to you if you are a current member of SCB and you reside in a developing country (click here to see if your country qualifies). If you are already a member just login on our website and you will see links to the publications on the right hand side of your Member Homepage. If you are not a member please read about our sponsored memberships below or click here to purchase your SCB membership.

Sponsored SCB membership for developing country residents

Thanks to a grant from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), SCB is able to offer free memberships to a large number of conservationists in developing countries and therefore provide access to the growing list of free conservation publications. If you would like to apply for sponsored membership click here, read the description and fill out the form.

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The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity. The Society's membership comprises a wide range of people interested in the conservation and study of biological diversity: resource managers, educators, government and private conservation workers, and students make up the more than 12,000 members world-wide.