Resources from four EIFL webinars on copyright issues for libraries, that took place in September and October 2024, are available online. The webinars explored key topics that concern libraries - copyright and AI (artificial intelligence) for science and research; copyright and the commons (open licences); limitations and exceptions for research and development; fair use, fair dealing and fair practice. The topics were suggested by librarians in EIFL partner countries.

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.

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.

Webinar for repository managers from North and South America who are involved in Paper Pledge for the Planet, a campaign launched by EIFL, COAR (the Confederation of Open Access Repositories) and Creative Commons to help address the climate crisis by making climate research available in open repositories.

Webinar for repository managers from Africa and Europe who are involved in Paper Pledge for the Planet, a campaign launched by EIFL, COAR (the Confederation of Open Access Repositories) and Creative Commons to help address the climate crisis by making climate research available in open repositories.

Webinar for repository managers from Asia who are involved in Paper Pledge for the Planet, a campaign launched by EIFL, COAR (the Confederation of Open Access Repositories) and Creative Commons to help address the climate crisis by making climate research available in open repositories.

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, reports on the launch of a new policy document by COMMUNIA setting out four actions to empower European knowledge institutions in the digital age.

The EIFL General Assembly (GA) 2024 took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 7 - 9 October, bringing together delegates from our network of library consortia in 30 countries, representatives of our partners in the publishing industry, invited speakers and members of the EIFL management board and staff team. 

EIFL will be celebrating international Open Access Week 2024 with libraries, researchers and students in our partner countries. Open Access Week 2024 will continue the 2023 call to put ‘Community over Commercialization’ and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. 

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, will attend ‘Unharnessing Open Research in Ireland’, an event organised by the SCOIR project (Secondary rights, Copyright, Open access, Institutional policies, and Rights retention) at Trinity College, Dublin. “Scoir” is the Irish word for “unharness”.

Open repositories are a tool for climate action. By increasing the number of climate research papers openly available in repositories, EIFL, COAR (the Confederation of Open Access Repositories) and Creative Commons are collectively taking action to help address the climate crisis.  

Over 3,500 of the most-cited climate change articles have been published in the last five years as closed access; however, these articles can be made openly available in repositories because the authors retained their rights and/or have the right to deposit their accepted manuscripts. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will conduct training on building capacity for research data management for researchers, librarians and students at the annual scientific conference, Research in Biomedicine and Health: Quality, Excellence, and Performance, organized by Nicolae Testemițanu Medical Scientific Library. Ševkušić’s  training will take place on 17 October 2024.

Public Lending Right (PLR) gives authors (and other rightsholders) the right to receive payment for the non-commercial lending of books and other works by libraries. About thirty-five countries have active PLR systems - these are mostly in Europe plus Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Israel.

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.

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.

SUPRR, in collaboration with EIFL and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, wraps up a series of discussions with scholarly book publishers on new open access (OA) publishing business models. The aim of the series is to explore how Ukrainian monograph publishing can move to sustainable OA practices and how such models can be used or adapted to Ukrainian circumstances.

Session Three: Publishing infrastructure solutions and reflections:

SUPRR, in collaboration with EIFL and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, continues a series of discussions with scholarly book publishers on new open access (OA) publishing business models. The aim of the series is to explore how Ukrainian monograph publishing can move to sustainable OA practices and how such models can be used or adapted to Ukrainian circumstances.

SUPRR, in collaboration with EIFL and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, is launching a series of discussions with selected UK and US scholarly book publishers on new open access (OA) publishing business models. The aim of the series is to explore how Ukrainian monograph publishing can move to sustainable OA practices and how such models can be used or adapted to Ukrainian circumstances.

EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator Milica Ševkušić will be one of the trainers at the Portuguese 2024 Open Science Train-the-Trainers Bootcamp (Bootcamp 2024 de Formação de Formadores em Ciência Aberta). The six-day event is organized by the University of Minho and the Portugues OpenAIRE Open Access Desk. Milica’s presentation, focused on gamification, will be given online.

EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with Sage Publications for Sage Research Methods and Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1.