“Major reform is never born of chance. It is the fruit of a shared vision, patient dialogue, sustained cooperation, and collective commitment in service of the common good,” writes Awa Diouf Cissé, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Coordinator in this article published in Senegal’s ‘Le Soleil’ newspaper. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will speak at the Female Academic Network for Africa Research and International Collaboration (FANARC) Conference. The theme of the conference is ‘Research Visibility and International Collaboration’. 

Milica will deliver a presentation titled 'Digital Tools for Research Visibility'. The conference is hosted by the Adventist University of Africa. Registration can be found here.

Join the next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa. 

Date and time: 19 August at 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT (convert to your timezone).

Rima Kupryte, Director of EIFL will attend the 18th Berlin Open Access Conference (B18) organized by OA Forward.  B18  will convene senior leaders from research institutions, library consortia, and funding bodies alongside major publishers to address a central question: What must change now to realign scholarly publishing with the interests of the research community?

Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers and discuss experiences with running workshops for research offices. Amy P. A. Asimah and Dominic Dankwah will also share their experiences of conducting open science training in Ghana.    

Date and time: 12 August 2026, 9:00 UTC (Convert to your timezone).

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

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss communications, marketing, visibility and impact of Diamond OA journals. 

EIFL has renewed the agreement with Royal Society Publishing for a further three years until December 2029. The agreement provides EIFL partner countries with free or deeply discounted access to eight high-impact journals in the physical and biological sciences, and waived Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing in fully open access and hybrid journals.

Countries that are eligible for free access - 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will facilitate a webinar for the EIFL partner in DRC - Consortium des Bibliothèques Académiques du Congo. The webinar will outline the opportunities offered by the EIFL-negotiated agreements for open access (OA) publishing. Participants will learn how to identify eligible journals, submit a manuscript, understand waivers and discounts in Article Processing Charges (APCs), and adopt best practices to enhance the visibility and impact of their research. 

In an open letter to the European Parliament, EIFL joins over 35 organizations calling on the European Parliament to reject the introduction of actor-specific licences for access to public sector information and data in Europe. To address concerns about market dominance and unfair competition by very large enterprises, mechanisms for differentiated charging should instead be used. 

Join the next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa. 

Date and time: 15 July at 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT (convert to your timezone).

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss experiences of optimizing journal processes and workflows.

Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, which will discuss how institutions strategically plan open science training, balancing long-term capacity building with project- and funder-driven training requirements, and how these approaches can be aligned more effectively. 

Join the next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa. 

Date and time: 20 May 2026 at 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT (Convert to your timezone).

Join this EIFL webinar to learn how to set up and implement a mentorship programme for editorial assistants.

We’re happy to share reports from three more projects strengthening the quality and sustainability of no-fee open access (OA) journals in Africa. 

Join this ‘Virtual Break’ - an informal online discussion organized by the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) on ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Public Libraries'. As AI tools become more widely used, we will explore practical training experiences and resources to help public librarians enhance their AI literacy and improve community understanding of this technology. In this session (up to 90 min), we will have two speakers:

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will give a keynote address at the 5th CARLIGH International Conference 2026, which is themed ‘The Open Movement in Times Of Urgency and Rapid Change’.

CARLIGH – the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana – is an EIFL partner library consortium. More information about the conference.  

EIFL’s Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, Teresa Hackett, will participate in a National Workshop on Public Lending Right in the context of the EU Acquis on Copyright. The workshop is organized by the State Agency on Intellectual Property (AGEPI) and the Library Association of the Republic of Moldova, in collaboration with EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) and WIPO, with the support of EU4IP project and the Swiss PartnershIP Moldova. It is being held on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April.

Ready to move from awareness to action? Join this interactive, hands-on 1.5-hour workshop to learn how to support and fund open infrastructures and help your institution to do the same. The workshop is organized by the Forum for Open Research in the Middle East and North Africa in partnership with the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS). 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager and SCOSS Board Member, is among experts giving input at the workshop. EIFL is a member of SCOSS.

In April 2026, EIFL submitted comments for a public consultation organized by the Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia on the Draft Law on Copyright and Related Rights (2026). The amendments seek to harmonize Serbian law with two EU Directives (Directive 2012/28 on orphan works and Directive 2014/26 on collective management organizations), and to implement the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with disabilities into national law.