The next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa, that now includes 359 members, will take place on 16 July 2025 at 10:00 UTC. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will be one of the presenters at the webinar “Connect with the European Diamond OA Community: The Forum & Registry of the European Diamond Capacity Hub”, organized by the Horizon Europe funded projects DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA. 

EIFL will co-facilitate a regional webinar for editors and publishers of scholarly open access journals in six countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. The webinar is organized as part of the Horizon Europe funded project DIAMAS, in which EIFL is a partner. 

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.

EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Manager, Ramune Petuchovaite, will attend the Internet Governance Forum 2025 (IGF2025), which brings together stakeholders from government, industry and civil society from across the world to discuss public policy issues related to internet governance. 

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train teachers in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of the E-library, created with support from EIFL, and Zotero free and open source reference management software for managing bibliographic data and related research materials.

The Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) has adopted and launched an open science policy following an extensive and participatory stakeholder engagement process. 

EIFL’s agreement with Edward Elgar, which expires at the end of 2025, has been renewed for another three years, until December 2028.  Edward Elgar Publishing is one of the leading independent academic book publishers in law, business and the social sciences. Edward Elgar also publishes a growing list of peer-reviewed journals.

The renewed agreement provides free access in 30 countries to 19 journals and the Edward Elgar Development Studies & Environment e-book collections of 1,592 titles. The number of e-book titles in the collections has doubled since the last agreement. 

A range of new resources and services has been added to the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) that was  launched in 2025 for Diamond open access (OA) publishers and service, tool and technology providers. The EDCH was developed by the DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects with the aim of advancing Diamond open access publishing across Europe. EIFL is a partner in the DIAMAS project. 

We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2024 Annual Report, in which we share our achievements and tell the stories of people who have benefited from our work.

A special feature in this report highlights the work of the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) in Uganda, that has led to resourcing of public and community libraries across the country with ICT. Librarians are using the equipment in new community information services and training programmes that are helping to change the lives of many thousands of people.

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

EIFL's Milica Ševkušić will hold a full-day training session titled How to improve the visibility of individual researchers and their research outputs on 5 June 2025. The training will address the challenges of ensuring proper attribution and discoverability of research in the digital age and explain to participants how to navigate open science practices towards enhancing the visibility and impact of their research.