Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers and discuss the benefits of detailed training plans. 

Date and time: 16 September 2026, 9:00 UTC (Convert to your timezone).

Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up.

We’re happy to share, ‘Three Principles of Digital Skills Training for Adults’, a new ‘Small Bites’ training video for public librarians and public library trainers created by the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP).

EIFL will be celebrating International Open Access Week 2026 with libraries, researchers and students in our partner countries. Open Access Week (#OAweek) is an annual, global event established by SPARC to raise awareness about open access and to call for open access to be the norm in scholarship and research.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will speak virtually about EIFL’s work on equitable open access at the LATAM Open Science Forum.

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss how expert audits inform strategic planning and shape the journal profile. 

Public librarians in Africa are invited to a Virtual Learning Circle to learn to use social media to promote library training.

“Major reform is never born of chance. It is the fruit of a shared vision, patient dialogue, sustained cooperation, and collective commitment in service of the common good,” writes Awa Diouf Cissé, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Coordinator in this article published in Senegal’s ‘Le Soleil’ newspaper. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will speak at the Female Academic Network for Africa Research and International Collaboration (FANARC) Conference. The theme of the conference is ‘Research Visibility and International Collaboration’. 

Milica will deliver a presentation titled 'Digital Tools for Research Visibility'. The conference is hosted by the Adventist University of Africa. Registration can be found here.

Join the next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa. 

Date and time: 19 August at 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT (convert to your timezone).

Rima Kupryte, Director of EIFL will attend the 18th Berlin Open Access Conference (B18) organized by OA Forward.  B18  will convene senior leaders from research institutions, library consortia, and funding bodies alongside major publishers to address a central question: What must change now to realign scholarly publishing with the interests of the research community?

Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers and discuss experiences with running workshops for research offices. Amy P. A. Asimah and Dominic Dankwah will also share their experiences of conducting open science training in Ghana.    

Date and time: 12 August 2026, 9:00 UTC (Convert to your timezone).

Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up.

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss communications, marketing, visibility and impact of Diamond OA journals. 

EIFL has renewed the agreement with Royal Society Publishing for a further three years until December 2029. The agreement provides EIFL partner countries with free or deeply discounted access to eight high-impact journals in the physical and biological sciences, and waived Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing in fully open access and hybrid journals.

Countries that are eligible for free access - 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will facilitate a webinar for the EIFL partner in DRC - Consortium des Bibliothèques Académiques du Congo. The webinar will outline the opportunities offered by the EIFL-negotiated agreements for open access (OA) publishing. Participants will learn how to identify eligible journals, submit a manuscript, understand waivers and discounts in Article Processing Charges (APCs), and adopt best practices to enhance the visibility and impact of their research. 

In an open letter to the European Parliament, EIFL joins over 35 organizations calling on the European Parliament to reject the introduction of actor-specific licences for access to public sector information and data in Europe. To address concerns about market dominance and unfair competition by very large enterprises, mechanisms for differentiated charging should instead be used. 

Join the next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa. 

Date and time: 15 July at 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT (convert to your timezone).

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss experiences of optimizing journal processes and workflows.

Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, which will discuss how institutions strategically plan open science training, balancing long-term capacity building with project- and funder-driven training requirements, and how these approaches can be aligned more effectively. 

Join the next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa. 

Date and time: 20 May 2026 at 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT (Convert to your timezone).

Join this EIFL webinar to learn how to set up and implement a mentorship programme for editorial assistants.