EIFL staff and coordinators of EIFL partner library consortia will participate in the UKSG November Conference 2024. The theme of the conference is ‘Cybersecurity and Censorship’. 

The conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar, attracting a large number of people each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. UKSG is providing 30 free places for EIFL.

Thank you to the UKSG.

EIFL and Cambridge University Press have renewed their agreement for a further year until December 2025. The renewed agreement includes free and discounted access to journals, read & publish and waived and discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs).

Free and discounted access

12 EIFL partner countries are eligible for free or discounted access to 419 Cambridge University Press (CUP) journal titles:

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train teachers and students in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of the E-Library.

Rima Kupryte, EIFL Director, and Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will give a presentation about EIFL and its activities at the Annual meeting of the Latvian Library Consortium. The main topic of the meeting will be electronic resource acquisition and accessibility.

EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with Sage Publications for Sage Research Methods and Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1.

EIFL and Duke University Press have renewed the agreements for the e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection and the Euclid Prime Collection for a further three years. From 2025 more EIFL-partner countries will have free or discounted access to both collections. 

The e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection provides online access to 59 Duke University Press journals in the humanities and social sciences.

EIFL and Open Book Publishers (OBP) have signed an agreement which will provide libraries that are members of library consortia in EIFL partner countries with free membership of the OPB Library Membership Programme for three years. 

OBP is a non-profit open access book publisher established by academics at the University of Cambridge to publish rigorously peer-reviewed monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The agreement runs until 31st December 2027 and is open to library consortia in 33 EIFL partner countries - 

EIFL has signed a three-year renewal agreement with Infobase for Credo Reference Service: Academic Core, an online reference database with authoritative content from over 900 e-book titles,  with an emphasis on encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks, covering over 80 major subject disciplines and more than six million research concepts. 

EIFL has renewed an agreement with Wolters Kluwer Health for another three years, until 31 December 2027. From January 2025, authors from EIFL partner countries will be able to publish in several more open access journals. 

The agreement includes  waived and discounted article processing charges (APCs) for the following 13 fully open access Wolters Kluwer Health  journals that cover a broad spectrum of medical scientific disciplines: