EIFL Licensing

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.

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.

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.

EIFL renews agreement with De Gruyter

Jean_F — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:38:18 +0000

EIFL has renewed its agreement with the academic publisher, De Gruyter, for two more years, until 31 December 2026.

The renewed agreement provides free and discounted access to the De Gruyter journals collection. In addition, the agreement includes free or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors from EIFL partner countries for publishing articles in open access in 363 De Gruyter Gold, Hybrid and Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals.

Free or discounted reading access

EIFL, ACM renew agreement for three more years

Jean_F — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:40:54 +0000

EIFL and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have renewed an agreement to provide free access to the ACM Digital Library as well as free open access publishing for corresponding authors in ACM journals and conference proceedings for three years. The renewed agreement covers 25 EIFL partner countries and is valid until 31 December 2027.

EIFL agreements lead to increase in OA publishing

Jean_F — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:33:48 +0000

Britt-Marie Wideberg, EIFL Licensing Programme Manager, analyzes the amount of research published in open access in 2023 by authors from EIFL partner countries to find out how EIFL-negotiated open access agreements are making a difference.

UKSG November Conference 2024

Jean_F — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:32:38 +0000

EIFL staff and coordinators of EIFL partner library consortia will participate in the UKSG November Conference 2024. The theme of the conference is ‘Cybersecurity and Censorship’.

The conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar, attracting a large number of people each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. UKSG is providing 30 free places for EIFL.

Thank you to the UKSG.

EIFL agreement with Cambridge University Press

Jean_F — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:34:38 +0000

EIFL and Cambridge University Press have renewed their agreement for a further year until December 2025. 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 419 Cambridge University Press (CUP) journal titles:

E-Library training for LAOS faculty

Jean_F — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:41:48 +0000

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train teachers and students in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of the E-Library.