Researchers are invited to join this webinar that explores the future of scholarly communication by bringing together perspectives from Africa, Europe and Latin America to examine how Diamond open access can contribute to a more equitable and community-driven scholarly publishing ecosystem. 

This EIFL webinar for journal editors, publishers, librarians and others involved in DOI registration will show how providing comprehensive metadata when registering DOIs for research output supports indexing, citation tracking and interoperability with scholarly databases. 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will speak at the International Conference: The library shaping tomorrow, organized by EIFL’s partner, The State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine (SSTL), to celebrate its 90th anniversary. 

The Ghana Library Authority has initiated a project aiming to transform the Ghana Library Journal into a more robust, visible, and sustainable Diamond open access journal serving the academic community in Ghana and beyond.

The Ghana Library Journal publishes research for librarians, library administrators, information scientists, academics, educators and students with an interest in Librarianship and Information Science.

EIFL has renewed its agreement with SAGE Publishing for access to and publishing in SAGE journals for a further three years, until December 2028.

Free access

Under the renewed agreement, libraries in 11 EIFL countries can get free access to the SAGE Premier collection of over 935 leading international peer-reviewed journals:

• Armenia, Congo DR, Ethiopia, Georgia, Myanmar, Palestine, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Ukraine,  Zambia

Discounted access

Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, which will discuss a checklist for organizing a successful hybrid event. There will also be time to discuss your open science training plans and challenges. 

• Date and time: 20 January, 9:00 UTC
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up

EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Manager, Ramune Petuchovaite, will join the African Public and Community Libraries Virtual Summit, organized by the African Library and Information Association and Institutions (AfLIA).

The EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) has released two new 'Small Bites' training videos for public librarians and public library trainers on the topic, Library project development. Both videos focus on writing project reports for donors, and may also be useful for other kinds of libraries that have implemented projects and are writing reports. 

EIFL’s partner library consortium in Malawi, the Malawi Library and Information Consortium (MALICO) and EIFL have organized an online meeting for MALICO member institutions and partners to learn how to update and register ROR IDs. 

Public librarians who have completed training-of-trainers programmes organized by the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) team and partners in Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Uganda and Zambia are invited to attend this informal knowledge-sharing event, the final T-break for 2025.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will speak about benefits and opportunities of the EIFL Open Access Programme for member institutions of the Consortium des Bibliothèques de l‘Enseignement Supérieur de Cote d‘Ivoire (COBES-CI). The event is organized by EIFL's partner, COBES-CI and Université Virtuelle de Côte d'Ivoire.

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will be among facilitators of the 8th OpenAIRE Open Science Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp. 

Ramune Petuçhovaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Manager, will attend the 12th Baltic Librarians’ Congress (CoBaL).

The Congress of Baltic Librarians, organized by librarians from the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), is held every five years.  The 2025 Congress will focus on the role of libraries in strengthening literacy in society.

Hawassa University in Ethiopia has initiated a project that aims to enhance the quality and sustainability of five journals: Hawassa University Journal of Law, the Journal of Science and Development, the East African Journal of Biophysical and Computational Science, the ETIOINQUIRY Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Journal of Forestry and Natural Resources. 

The five journals are Diamond open access journals published by the university. 

EIFL’s Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, Teresa Hackett, will attend two events in Geneva: the launch celebration of the Centre on Knowledge Governance and the 47th session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights.

The mission of the Centre on Knowledge Governance is to promote justice and sustainable development in policy-making institutions that govern access to and use of information, such as WIPO, WHO and WTO.

Join us for the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, which will address a range of topics, including hybrid events as a training format and a checklist for organizing a successful hybrid event; using OpenAlex, and the acceptability of the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in academic writing among students. There will also be time to discuss open science training plans. 

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

Universidade Óscar Ribas in Angola has initiated a project that will strengthen the quality and visibility of its journal, SAPIENTIAE, and expand its reach and impact in Angola and other countries in Africa. 

SAPIENTIAE is a Diamond open access multilingual (Portuguese, Spanish and English) multidisciplinary academic journal that is committed to the development of science and the dissemination of knowledge generated through research. 

Associação Multidiscipinar de Investigaçao Cientifica in Angola has initiated a project to strengthen editorial and technical capacity of the Revista Angolana de Ciências (Angolan Journal of Sciences), to build partnerships and to build capacity to publish articles in English in order to broaden the journal’s reach in Africa and other parts of the world. 

Join us for this webinar introducing UMinho Editora, the academic press of the University of Minho, and PUB IN, the Portuguese national infrastructure for scholarly journal publishing.

Pedro Principe, Carla Marques and Marta Morgado (University of Minho) will show how Open Journal Systems (OJS) is used to support the entire editorial workflow – from submission and peer review to publication –  in the two platforms and how it contributes to interoperability, visibility, and the adoption of Open Science practices in Portuguese journals.