Edward Elgar Publishing has added the Elgar Advanced Introductions: Law collection of textbooks to its agreement with EIFL, providing free access to the platform for institutions in 30 EIFL partner countries. 

Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager, will join this webinar on using outcome measurement to improve library services. 

The webinar is organized by the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. Registration is open, and is free for all.

Growing numbers of public libraries are incorporating STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) activities in their services and programmes. 

STEAM is a learning approach that stimulates curiosity and creativity, and builds skills that are useful for education, work and day-to-day life, like problem solving, critical thinking, communications and collaboration, while simultaneously developing learners' knowledge of STEAM subjects. 

Open science training is taking off in our partner countries. We conducted a survey of our partner national library consortia, and are delighted to report that last year over 10,000 researchers, students, research administrators and librarians were trained in open access and open science by the consortia or their member libraries.

EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP) for another three years. The agreement provides free access to 19 peer-reviewed journals for institutions in 29 EIFL partner countries.

MSP is a scholar-led non-profit publisher, with a mission to serve the maths community through high-quality publishing. Journals are published in the areas of mathematics and engineering. New journal titles are automatically added to the collection.

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

• Date and time: 11 September, 9:00 UTC.
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up

EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator Milica Ševkušić will be one of the trainers at the Portuguese 2025 Open Science Train-the-Trainers Bootcamp (Bootcamp 2025 de Formação de Formadores em Ciência Aberta). Milica’s presentation will focus on Gamification . The five-day bootcamp is organized by the University of Minho.

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 has renewed its agreement with William S. Hein & Co for three more years, until December 2028.

Through this agreement, institutions in 37 EIFL partner countries can subscribe at discounted prices to three products: the customized HeinOnline package for EIFL, the HeinOnline package for EIFL plus the Law Journals Library, and the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals.

The next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa, that now includes 358 members, will take place on 20 August 2025 at 10:00 UTC. 

The meeting will be moderated by Femi Arogundade, of WACREN (West and Central African Research and Education Network), and Iryna Kuchma and Milica Ševkušić, of the EIFL Open Access Programme. Training programmes will be discussed and news and updates from CoP members will be shared. 

The fifth webinar in the DIAMAS Conversation Series will introduce the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) Training Platform – its structure and the training modules designed to support the growth of the Diamond open access ecosystem. The introduction will be followed by an open discussion on user experiences, needs and ideas about  how the training resources can be adapted to support capacity building at national and institutional levels.

EIFL will be celebrating International Open Access Week 2025 with libraries, researchers and students in our partner countries. Open Access Week is an annual, global event established by SPARC to raise awareness about open access and to call for open access to be the norm in scholarship and research.

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train master’s degree students in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of  Zotero free and open source reference management software for managing bibliographic data and related research materials.

Ramunė Petuchovaitė, Manager of the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP), will participate in the final stakeholder event of the Digital Learning @ Ghana Public Libraries project.

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 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 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.