EIFL has joined the Open Science for Ukrainian Higher Education System (Open4UA) Erasmus+ project, which aims to reform the higher education system by prioritising open science to advance the growth of Ukraine’s knowledge-driven economy for the post-war recovery. 

The three-year project will: 

We are delighted to name four winners of the 17th EIFL Public Library Innovation Award, for Public libraries addressing one of three pressing global issues: Safety online; Climate change action and Digital inclusion of forcibly displaced populations

Congratulations to - 

Prelog City Library and Reading Room, a small library staffed by just two librarians serving the town of Prelog in Croatia, is making a huge impact across the country with its ‘GEL - Guerrilla Education for Librarians’ programme. GEL is an online safety training programme targeting librarians, with a strong training-of-trainers component enabling librarians who have undergone the training to pass on their knowledge to the communities they serve.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, thousands of forcefully displaced and traumatized families have taken refuge in the city of Lviv in western Ukraine. Housed in temporary shelters, these families are struggling to rebuild their lives and integrate into a new and unfamiliar environment. 

‘The Fifth Element’, a project of Lviv Regional Children's Library, helps children of displaced families through a combination of interactive and fun training in digital skills, information literacy and critical thinking, and psychological support. 

The city of Ust-Kamenogorsk in East Kazakhstan is badly polluted. The main atmospheric polluters are the giant metallurgy and chemical companies which pump toxic gases into the air. In addition, the city struggles with solid waste disposal, resulting in unauthorized dumping by citizens, the accumulation of garbage in backyards and litter in the streets, parks and children’s sports grounds. 

More and more children and youth across Kenya are going online as internet infrastructure improves and connectivity and digital devices become more affordable. This is good news for digital inclusion, but the lack of digital literacy and online safety skills leaves young internet users vulnerable to threats like grooming, cyberbullying and fraud, says Eliphas Nyamogo, founder and director of Fahari Community Initiative, which runs the Fahari Community Library in Migori, Kenya.

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager will participate in this webinar to discuss exciting new legislative developments in support of open science in Bulgaria and Slovenia. 

EIFL has renewed an agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP), for a further year until 31 December 2024. The agreement includes free and discounted access to journals and online products and waived article processing charges (APCs).

Libraries from the following countries can subscribe to a full collection of 375 journals and a range of online products:

Free access

18 countries can access Oxford Journals and Online Products free of charge - 

In December 2023 a group of librarians and open science enthusiasts organized a workshop on Research Data Management (RDM) for Serbian researchers and librarians. They drew on the training methods and materials tested during EIFL and OpenAIRE open science train-the-trainer bootcamps held during 2023. Participants’ feedback was overwhelmingly positive, writes Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, who was one of the workshop trainers.