Join us for the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, where we will discuss how to talk to researchers and convince them to include open science in their research workflows. We will also discuss how to reach students and researchers (via emails, LinkedIn, Facebook, Teams Groups, etc.). There will also be time to share your training-related news and activities. 

Iryna Kuchma, Manager of the EIFL Open Access Programme, will give a presentation about the programme during a meeting of the national library consortium of Ukraine. The meeting, on the EIFL-Ukraine Partnership: A New Stage of Cooperation and Development, has been organized by the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, which coordinates the national consortium

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will attend the 16th General Assembly (GA) of OpenAIRE, which takes place in hybrid format. Iryna will attend remotely. 

A not-for-profit organization, OpenAIRE A.M.K.E. was established by 16 organizations - including EIFL - to ensure a permanent open scholarly communication infrastructure to support European research.

We are happy to share the fourth version of the EIFL Digital Research Literacy Training Programme Outline for Librarians, which is available for download in PDF or you can view it online. 

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. 

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.

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.