1 November 2010: The UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has made 380 of its publications freely available online through the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a non-profit consortium.

The documents are intended to be used by a wide range of users, including educators, the general public, and decision-makers. According to UNEP-WCMC, the reports are published according to open access standards to allow maximum accessibility, and in just a few months there have been 9,307 downloads. The publications currently can be found at the UNEP-WCMC archive, and they soon will be incorporated into the Biodiversity Heritage Library. [UNEP-WCMC publications] [Biodiversity Heritage Library]