EIFL and OpenEdition have renewed their agreement for the OpenEdition Freemium collection of journals for one year, until December 2026.  This agreement provides libraries in 28 countries with free access to 184 journals + 17 bonus titles.

Around 80% of the journals are published in French, and other languages include English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The journals are available in HTML, PDF and ePub formats without technical (DRM) restrictions

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will travel to Laos to provide five days of training for teachers and students at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (FLP) at the National University of Laos. Training will cover content, navigation and use of the FLP E-Library in teaching, learning and research. In addition, Sevcova will deliver a public lecture, giving an overview of the E-Library.

The programme is as follows:

EIFL has joined Bluesky, the microblogging social media platform  where, from now on, you can keep up-to-date with our latest news, events and EIFL resources.

Follow us on Bluesky - @eifl.bsky.social - in addition to Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

We look forward to engaging with you on Bluesky!

Britt-Marie Wideberg, Manager of the EIFL Licensing Programme, analyzes the amount of research published in open access in 2024 by authors from EIFL partner countries to find out how EIFL-negotiated open access agreements are making a difference.  

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. 

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.

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.