EIFL has renewed an agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP) for a further year until 31 December 2025. The agreement includes free and discounted access to journals and online products and waived article processing charges (APCs) to fully open access (Gold) journals.

Access to Journals and Online Products

Libraries from the following countries can subscribe to a full collection of 375 journals and a range of online products:

Free access to Oxford Journals and Online Products 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will chair this OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) webinar focusing on quality in open access publishing and drawing on experiences from different regions of the world (East and North Africa, Southeast Europe and North America).

Bring your questions and issues with running your repositories to our webinar and discuss good practices in repository setup and management. 

BibliON’s Digital Reading Clubs are offering spaces for intellectual and emotional exchanges about books for people from across Brasil, creating a sense of belonging among people of all ages and socio-economic and educational backgrounds who share similar interests. 

The BibliON Reading Clubs are part of the São Paulo state public libraries system and serve as an extension of the digital services offered by public libraries. In this way, BibliON improves and expands citizens' access to reading and culture.

We are delighted to name three winners of the 18th EIFL Public Library Innovation Award, for Public libraries that integrate digital reading and writing to enhance services.

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How do you get teenagers reading? Librarians in Lithuania have found an answer in ‘FrienshipLand’ (Draugoteka), a comprehensive year-long programme meticulously crafted to rekindle a passion for reading among teenagers. 

The programme was launched in January 2023 and is being delivered through 39 public libraries in Panevėžys, Kaunas and Klaipėda counties. By November 2024 the programme had engaged thousands of teenagers in the three counties in meaningful reading experiences. 

Makati City Library is bringing new digital reading and writing experiences to children living in six underserved barangays (suburbs) on the outskirts of Makati City in the Philippines, and engaging whole families in children’s educational journey. 

The library, located in the city centre, is less accessible to people living in the barangays. To address this challenge the library has created a mobile digital reading and writing programme titled 'Let's Read Together’.

Ramune Petuchovaite and Ugne Lipeikaite of the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) will participate in this knowledge-sharing event for regional and branch library managers and ICT coordinators from libraries across Ghana, and representatives of government agencies, telecommunication companies and NGO’s that have an interest in advancing education, digital literacy and digital inclusion in Ghana.

Britt-Marie Wideberg , EIFL Licensing Programme Manager, will attend the 17th Berlin Open Access Conference (B17), which is organized by the OA2020 Initiative on behalf of the Max Planck Society.

ALMASI, a three-year EU-funded project involving 15 partners that aims to strengthen non-profit open access publishing across three regions - Africa, Latin America and Europe - has been launched in Madrid, Spain. 

Jevgenija Sevcova of EIFL will give a presentation during the Science Communication Week in Kyrgyzstan. Her presentation will focus on electronic resources and publication opportunities available via EIFL to scientists in Kyrgyzstan. More about EIFL’s work and resources available through EIFL in Kyrgyzstan.

EIFL has negotiated a renewal agreement with EBSCO Information Services, providing discounted access to the EBSCO eBooks Academic Subscription Collection for three more years. 

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.

The first meeting of the new Community of Practice (CoP) formed to support editors and publishers of no-fee open access journals and books in Africa takes place on 22 January 2025 at 10:00 UTC. 

First in a series of EIFL webinars about using Open Journal Systems (OJS) free and open source software that facilitates the management and publishing of scholarly journals. The webinars will focus on interesting examples of OJS implementation. 

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Iryna Kuchma and Milica Ševkušić from the EIFL Open Access Programme will participate in the public launch of the EU-funded project, ALMASI: Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally, on 14 January, and the public launch of the European Diamond Capacity Hub, on 15 January. The events will be hosted by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), and will take place at the Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (MUNCYT). 

Iryna Kuchma and Milica Ševkušić from the EIFL Open Access Programme will participate in the kick-off meeting of the new EU-funded project ALMASI: Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally. The event will be hosted by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), and it will take place at the Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. 

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 is one of several international partners that have come together to form ALMASI, a project that aims to provide the research community with an aligned, nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem spanning three world regions: Africa, Europe and Latin America. 

EIFL’s Iryna Kuchma participated in the Ukrainian Open Science Forum in Lviv (21-23 November 2024), and shares news about the launch of the Ukrainian Reproducibility Network.