EIFL news, blogs, events, media

Digital Learning @ Ghana Public Libraries

Jean_F — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:44:50 +0000

Ramune Petuchovaite and Ugne Lipeikaite of the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) will participate in this knowledge-sharing event for regional and branch library managers and ICT coordinators from libraries across Ghana, and representatives of government agencies, telecommunication companies and NGO’s that have an interest in advancing education, digital literacy and digital inclusion in Ghana.

17th Berlin Open Access Conference

Jean_F — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:21:42 +0000

Britt-Marie Wideberg , EIFL Licensing Programme Manager, will attend the 17th Berlin Open Access Conference (B17), which is organized by the OA2020 Initiative on behalf of the Max Planck Society.

ALMASI project kick-off meeting and launch

Jean_F — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:06:26 +0000

ALMASI, a three-year EU-funded project involving 15 partners that aims to strengthen non-profit open access publishing across three regions - Africa, Latin America and Europe - has been launched in Madrid, Spain.

Kyrgyzstan Science Communication Week

Jean_F — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:27:38 +0000

Jevgenija Sevcova of EIFL will give a presentation during the Science Communication Week in Kyrgyzstan. Her presentation will focus on electronic resources and publication opportunities available via EIFL to scientists in Kyrgyzstan. More about EIFL’s work and resources available through EIFL in Kyrgyzstan.

EIFL renews EBSCO e-books agreement

Jean_F — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:26:10 +0000

EIFL has negotiated a renewal agreement with EBSCO Information Services, providing discounted access to the EBSCO eBooks Academic Subscription Collection for three more years.

No-fee OA publishing in Africa CoP

Jean_F — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:46:19 +0000

The first meeting of the new Community of Practice (CoP) formed to support editors and publishers of no-fee open access journals and books in Africa takes place on 22 January 2025 at 10:00 UTC.

OJS: Best Practices and Use Cases

Jean_F — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:31:08 +0000

First in a series of EIFL webinars about using Open Journal Systems (OJS) free and open source software that facilitates the management and publishing of scholarly journals. The webinars will focus on interesting examples of OJS implementation.

Webinar 1 -

Public Launch of the ALMASI project and the European Diamond Capacity Hub

Jean_F — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:21:22 +0000

Iryna Kuchma and Milica Ševkušić from the EIFL Open Access Programme will participate in the public launch of the EU-funded project, ALMASI: Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally, on 14 January, and the public launch of the European Diamond Capacity Hub, on 15 January. The events will be hosted by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), and will take place at the Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (MUNCYT).

ALMASI project kick-off meeting

Jean_F — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:08:24 +0000

Iryna Kuchma and Milica Ševkušić from the EIFL Open Access Programme will participate in the kick-off meeting of the new EU-funded project ALMASI: Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally. The event will be hosted by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), and it will take place at the Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.

EIFL renews agreement with World Scientific

Jean_F — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:29:23 +0000

EIFL has renewed and expanded its agreement with World Scientific for one year, until 2025. The renewed agreement provides waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors to publish in 148 hybrid or gold open access journals in various fields, up from 111 in the previous agreement.

Over the last three decades, World Scientific has established itself as the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region.

EIFL has negotiated waived APCs for 26 EIFL partner countries, and discounted access APCs for 8 EIFL partner countries.