Papilionid Butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent

[peter]

The Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal India, is pleased to announce publication of its first e-book, PAPILIONID BUTTERFLIES OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT by Peter Smetacek. YOU Do NOT NEED TO BE A MEMBER OF RESEARCHGATE TO DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY. A free copy can be downloaded at the following link by clicking on the cover of the book and then clicking on 'DOWNLOAD': 
www.researchgate.net/publication/272383021_Papilionid_Butterflies_of_the_Indian_Subcontinent

We are especially pleased to note that there have been almost 700 downloads in a little over 24 hours. In two days, there have been 1057 downloads.

[wollastoni]

Great book, congrats.
Great that it is free too

Thank you for this "gift" to the community

[jensb]

I just saw the book, thanks, very nice.
For people who don't have a reasearchgate account.
you could send me a pm to know if it is allowed to share peter.

greets jens

[wollastoni]

Tell them to create an account.

For me, it would be interesting to have an accurate figure of how many people have downloaded it !
Most of publication will be digital in the future and it is interesting to understand if free or low cost download can work and be sustainable for authors/digital editors.

[jensb]

As far as i know you can only register when you have a school mail.
At least as far as i know.

[wollastoni]

You're right Jens, sorry.
I forgot that.

[Adam Cotton]

Yes, you normally need an institutional e-mail address to register for Researchgate. If you don't have institutional affiliation it is still possible to join, but you need a decent publication record. It took me some time to be accepted as a private researcher as they vet your application individually.

Adam.

[jensb]

So my offer still stays if Peter has no problem with it
I will mail the pdf file to people how are intrested.
Just send me a pm with youre email adres.

Greets Jens

[wollastoni]

Let's just inform that you can download this book even if you have no account on Researchgate.
Everybody can download it for free

[timmsyrj]

you don't require an account to download, I've just downloaded without one, follow the link in the first message, where you see the photo of the book cover, click on view and download appeared at the top.

Looks and excellent book, many thanks to the authors and for the link bringing it to our attention. Some excellent photo's of the species and sub. species and forms, great work.

Rich

[jensb]

That's nice i didn't know that was possible without an account.

Greets jens

[peter]

Thank you all for your kind comments. Please note that you do not need to be a member of RESEARCHGATE to download a copy of the book. I am sorry I did not mention this earlier. Please feel free to share the book as much as you wish, but I would be obliged if, instead of sharing it among yourselves, you used the researchgate link. That way, I get a bit of satisfaction from knowing how many people actually downloaded the book, and the time taken to download would be more or less the same. Thank you!

[wollastoni]

Now we are all waiting for the Pieridae part, Peter !

[timmsyrj]

personally I'd like the stichophthalma part now I've got the papilio one, that shouldn't be too large a book, more a leaflet! especially interested in nourmahal and nurinissa are they the same species? one being a synonymn? what size are they, as I've recently got neumogeni renquingdoujiei from Tibet that seems to resemble these only not quite as dark, but I have no idea as to size.

Rich