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EIFL Digital Research Literacy Training Programme

ხუთ, 01/02/2024 - 17:15

Welcome to the third version of the EIFL Digital Research Literacy Training Programme Outline for Librarians, which is available for download in PDF or you can view it online

Surveys on diamond OA publishing in Africa

ორშ, 29/01/2024 - 19:33

Respond to these two surveys to help us to better understand challenges faced by the diamond open access (OA) community in Africa and to plan for grant funding calls for projects to strengthen African diamond OA publishing initiatives.

EIFL renews agreement with Taylor & Francis

ორშ, 29/01/2024 - 13:07

EIFL has renewed an agreement with Taylor & Francis, for a year until 31 December 2024. The agreement includes discounted access to journals and waived and discounted article processing charges (APCs).

DISCOUNTED ACCESS

The agreement includes discounted access to 1,982 journals. Libraries in 20 EIFL countries are eligible for discounted access to the Taylor & Francis Science & Technology, and Social Science & Humanities Journals Collections 

Unlocking Knowledge Conference

ორშ, 29/01/2024 - 12:51

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, will moderate a panel at the ‘Unlocking Knowledge Conference’ which will bring together EU policymakers, academics and civil society to discuss how to enable knowledge institutions to play a bigger part in creating a flourishing information ecosystem.

Open Science for Ukrainian Higher Education System (Open4UA) project

ხუთ, 25/01/2024 - 20:29

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: 

Congratulations to EIFL Innovation Award winners

ოთხ, 24/01/2024 - 11:05

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 - 

Online safety: Innovation Award

სამ, 23/01/2024 - 17:00

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.

Digital rights & inclusion of forcefully displaced populations: Innovation Award

სამ, 23/01/2024 - 14:36

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. 

Climate Action: Innovation Award

სამ, 23/01/2024 - 13:45

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. 

Online safety: Innovation Award

სამ, 23/01/2024 - 13:18

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.

New Legislative Developments in support of Open Science – Bulgaria and Slovenia

ორშ, 22/01/2024 - 19:32

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 renews agreement with Oxford University Press

ორშ, 22/01/2024 - 19:14

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).

Access to Journals and Online Products

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 - 

Research Data Management workshop in Serbia

ოთხ, 17/01/2024 - 10:51

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. 

Open4UA project kick-off meeting

პარ, 12/01/2024 - 11:19

The Open Science for Ukrainian Higher Education System (Open4UA) Erasmus+ project will host a two-day meeting at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in Kyiv. EIFL is a Open4UA project partner, and Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will participate in the meeting. 

Integrating ORCID in repositories and CRIS systems

ორშ, 08/01/2024 - 17:18

Join the OpenAIRE coffee break on integrating ORCID in repositories and CRIS systems, with Paloma Marín-Arraiza from ORCID. The coffee break is organized by the University of Vienna as ORCID Austria Consortium Lead.

EIFL checklist for using OJS in journal publishing

ორშ, 08/01/2024 - 12:52

We have updated the EIFL checklist of good practices in using the free and open source software, Open Journal System (OJS), for journal editing and publishing. 

South Africa’s Copyright Bill: don’t let the schedule slip

პარ, 22/12/2023 - 15:34

EIFL has written to the National Assembly, one of South Africa’s two Houses of Parliament, expressing concern at apparent delays in the adoption of the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB). We urged the committee in charge of the bill (Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition) to do all in their power to ensure that the schedule for the Bill is not allowed to slip. 

EIFL-PLIP T-break: Online safety training for youth

ოთხ, 20/12/2023 - 19:15

Public librarians who have completed training-of-trainers programmes organized by the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) team and partners in Kenya, Namibia, Uganda and Zambia are invited to attend this informal knowledge sharing event - a ‘T-break’, where T stands for trainers - on the topic, ‘Online safety training for youth’.

EIFL agreement with Cambridge University Press

სამ, 19/12/2023 - 18:27

EIFL and Cambridge University Press have renewed their agreement for a further year until December 2024. The renewed agreement includes free and discounted access to journals, read & publish and waived and discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs).

Free and discounted access

12 EIFL partner countries are eligible for free or discounted access to 411 Cambridge University Press (CUP) journal titles:

Open access and open science in Tanzania

ორშ, 18/12/2023 - 20:39

EIFL began supporting open access in Tanzania in 2009, working with our partner library consortium, the Consortium of Tanzania Universities and Research Libraries (COTUL).