Ugnė Lipeikaitė, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Impact Manager, will speak at the Gaming & Gamification – Cross-Sector Applications & Impact webinar organized by the Dynamic Coalition on Gaming for Purpose. Ugne will share how African public libraries use gamification to support digital skills and learning programmes for students.

Public librarians who have completed training-of-trainers programmes organized by the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) and partners in Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Uganda and Zambia, and participants in the Initiative for Young African Library Innovators (IYALI), are invited to attend this informal online knowledge-sharing event, a 'T-break', where 'T' stands for 'trainers'. The event will focus on the development of local digital cultural content.

EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager Ugne Lipeikaite will participate in the Information Literacy Mailbag webinar hosted by the American Library Association (ALA).

The hour-long interactive session will bring together six experts in information literacy and knowledge management to respond to questions submitted by scholars, educators, and working librarians.

Join us for the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, where we will discuss training related news and activities. 

• Date and time: 13 August, 9:00 UTC.
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up.

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager will briefly present EIFL’s new model provision on Secondary Publication Rights at the User Rights Symposium 2025: Principles for Progress in Digital Copyright that takes place in Genev

The development of transparent and sustainable open infrastructures in research does not guarantee a global advancement of inclusive open science. Currently, there are several pathways towards open science that co-exist conflictingly at the global scale, and the tensions between them are not only determined by the degrees of openness and closedness, but relate to the poles of inclusiveness and exclusiveness. Within this workshop, the organizers intend to discuss these tensions.  

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager will talk about open science skills building at the Open and Sharing Data Working Group session of APAN60 conference in Hong Kong.

The 60th Meeting of the Asia Pacific Advanced Network Conference (APAN60) gathers researchers, librarians and technical experts from various countries to delve into the latest advancements in network technologies and applications. 

Iryna Kuchma and Milica Ševkušić, of the EIFL Open Access Programme will attend international conference “Open Science: Monitoring Progress, Assessing Impact,” organized by UNESCO, OpenAIRE, PathOS and EOSC Track projects, the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology and Open science monitoring initiative (OSMI) on 7–8 July 2025 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and online. 

Join us for the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, where Milica Ševkušić, of the EIFL Open Access Programme will lead the discussion on the training topic: Strategies to boost the visibility of researchers, institutions, research outputs and research activities. 

Date and time: 10 July 9:00 UTC.

Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up.

The next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa, that now includes 359 members, will take place on 16 July 2025 at 10:00 UTC. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will be one of the presenters at the webinar “Connect with the European Diamond OA Community: The Forum & Registry of the European Diamond Capacity Hub”, organized by the Horizon Europe funded projects DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA. 

EIFL will co-facilitate a regional webinar for editors and publishers of scholarly open access journals in six countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. The webinar is organized as part of the Horizon Europe funded project DIAMAS, in which EIFL is a partner. 

The EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) team has released a new ‘Small Bites’ training video for public librarians and public library trainers, focused on the effective use of icebreakers and energizers in library training sessions.

EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Manager, Ramune Petuchovaite, will attend the Internet Governance Forum 2025 (IGF2025), which brings together stakeholders from government, industry and civil society from across the world to discuss public policy issues related to internet governance. 

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train teachers in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of the E-library, created with support from EIFL, and Zotero free and open source reference management software for managing bibliographic data and related research materials.

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train teachers in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of the E-library, created with support from EIFL, and Zotero free and open source reference management software for managing bibliographic data and related research materials.

The Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) has adopted and launched an open science policy following an extensive and participatory stakeholder engagement process. 

EIFL’s agreement with Edward Elgar, which expires at the end of 2025, has been renewed for another three years, until December 2028.  Edward Elgar Publishing is one of the leading independent academic book publishers in law, business and the social sciences. Edward Elgar also publishes a growing list of peer-reviewed journals.

The renewed agreement provides free access in 30 countries to 19 journals and the Edward Elgar Development Studies & Environment e-book collections of 1,592 titles. The number of e-book titles in the collections has doubled since the last agreement. 

A range of new resources and services has been added to the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) that was  launched in 2025 for Diamond open access (OA) publishers and service, tool and technology providers. The EDCH was developed by the DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects with the aim of advancing Diamond open access publishing across Europe. EIFL is a partner in the DIAMAS project. 

We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2024 Annual Report, in which we share our achievements and tell the stories of people who have benefited from our work.

A special feature in this report highlights the work of the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) in Uganda, that has led to resourcing of public and community libraries across the country with ICT. Librarians are using the equipment in new community information services and training programmes that are helping to change the lives of many thousands of people.