All the best for the holiday season and the New Year, with warm wishes from the EIFL Board and team. Thank you to everyone who has worked with us in 2024. We look forward to working with you again in 2025.

EIFL has renewed and expanded its agreement with World Scientific for one year, until 2025. The renewed agreement provides waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors to publish in 148 hybrid or gold open access journals in various fields, up from 111 in the previous agreement. 

Over the last three decades, World Scientific has established itself as the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region. 

EIFL has negotiated waived APCs for 26 EIFL partner countries, and discounted access APCs for 8 EIFL partner countries.

EIFL has renewed its agreement with the academic publisher, De Gruyter, for two more years, until 31 December 2026. 

The renewed agreement provides free and discounted access to the De Gruyter journals collection. In addition, the agreement includes free or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors from EIFL partner countries for publishing articles in open  access in 363 De Gruyter Gold, Hybrid and Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals. 

Free or discounted reading access 

EIFL and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have renewed an agreement to provide free access to the ACM Digital Library as well as free open access publishing for corresponding authors in ACM journals and conference proceedings for three years. The renewed agreement covers 25 EIFL partner countries and is valid until 31 December 2027.

Britt-Marie Wideberg, EIFL Licensing Programme Manager, analyzes the amount of research published in open access in 2023 by authors from EIFL partner countries to find out how EIFL-negotiated open access agreements are making a difference.  

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 -