Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will speak at the Summer School hosted by Sumy State University as a part of the Jean Monnet module ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH-101085198 – ‘Open Science and Education in Europe (OSEE): Success Stories for Ukrainian Academia’. Kuchma will talk about open science practices in journal publishing and in research grant applications.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access (EIFL-OA) Programme Manager, and Milica Ševkušić, EIFL-OA Project Coordinator, will present at the EURAXESS ASEAN webinar on ‘The Future of Research: An Introduction to Open Science’. EIFL co-organized the webinar with EURAXESS ASEAN.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will facilitate a session during training organized by the SPOZNAJ project consortium for people who will perform the role of data stewards or related profiles of data experts (e.g. data archivists, data librarians, data managers and data consultants) at their parent organizations. 

EIFL has compiled an Open Science for Health Sciences Training Programme Outline for librarians and open science trainers. The resource aims to support university and research libraries, as well as trainers working with researchers and students, by providing a structured guide to implementing open science practices in the health sciences.

The training programme outline was created in response to requests made during a monthly meet-up of Open Science trainers, organized by EIFL. 

Public librarians are teaching children at schools across Ghana digital literacy, covering digital reading, coding, fake news, online safety and much more. Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager, reflects on the impact of the library outreach programmes. 

The second webinar in the DIAMAS Conversation series for libraries  will focus on the standards and tools crafted to enhance the quality, efficiency and sustainability of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing.

EIFL and Open Book Publishers (OBP) have signed an agreement which will provide libraries that are members of library consortia in EIFL partner countries with free membership of the OPB Library Membership Programme for three years. 

OBP is a non-profit open access book publisher established by academics at the University of Cambridge to publish rigorously peer-reviewed monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The agreement runs until 31st December 2027 and is open to library consortia in 33 EIFL partner countries - 

EIFL welcomes the launch of a new WIPO toolkit that aims to provide guidance for national legislators on copyright provisions needed by libraries, archives and museums to preserve documents, films and other national treasures entrusted to their care. The launch (online and in person) took place in Bogota, Colombia on 2-3 September 2024.

Ugne Lipeikaite, Impact Manager, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP), will share experiences of supporting innovation in public and community libraries in Africa during this webinar organized by the Metropolitan Technological University in Santiago, Chile. The webinar, titled ‘Public Libraries as a Driver for Social Innovation’, is part of the university’s DIG-UTEM 2024 webinar series.

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will give a presentation at the 11th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science – PUBMET 2024.

EIFL has signed a three-year renewal agreement with Infobase for Credo Reference Service: Academic Core, an online reference database with authoritative content from over 900 e-book titles,  with an emphasis on encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks, covering over 80 major subject disciplines and more than six million research concepts. 

What can and can’t AI do? Is it ethical and safe to use chatbots for research tasks? What’s new in AI and where's it heading? Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, shares useful EIFL resources and training tools to help librarians to answer these questions and to train, support and guide researchers and library users. 

EIFL’s report ‘Landscape of no-fee open access publishing in Africa’ will be discussed at the AfricArXiv Open Science webinar series organized by UbuntuNet Alliance and Access 2 Perspectives. The report provides an overview of open access (OA) journals in Africa that do not charge fees for either authors or readers (often referred to as Diamond OA journals). 

EIFL has renewed an agreement with Wolters Kluwer Health for another three years, until 31 December 2027. From January 2025, authors from EIFL partner countries will be able to publish in several more open access journals. 

The agreement includes  waived and discounted article processing charges (APCs) for the following 13 fully open access Wolters Kluwer Health  journals that cover a broad spectrum of medical scientific disciplines: