EIFL news

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.

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.

No-Fee Open Access Publishing in Africa Community of Practice

Jean_F — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:12:31 +0000

Based at an African organization and publishing a no-fee open access (OA) journal or books? Apply to join a new Community of Practice that launches in December 2024.

Over 140 African no-fee journal editors have already expressed their interest in participating in the Community of Practice to share experiences, discuss opportunities for collaborations and partnerships, and collectively advocate for no-fee OA publishing (often referred to as Diamond OA) on the continent and globally.

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

Free OA publishing in Microbiology Society titles

Jean_F — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:17:19 +0000

EIFL has signed a three-year agreement with the Microbiology Society, allowing authors from 33 EIFL partner countries to publish for free in all six fully open access and hybrid journals published by the society.

The agreement starts on 1 January 2025 and runs for three years, until 31 December 2027.

The agreement includes waived article processing charges (APCs) for the following six journals:

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.

17 grants to strengthen no-fee OA publishing in Africa

Jean_F — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:53:18 +0000

EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) take pleasure in announcing the award of 17 grants that will strengthen the quality and sustainability of no-fee (Diamond) open access journals and journal hosting platforms across Africa.

The grants, of up to US$20,000 each, were awarded to 17 projects focused on strengthening no-fee open access journals and open access journal platforms in nine countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia).

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL-OA Manager wins award

Jean_F — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:39:09 +0000

Iryna Kuchma, Manager of the EIFL Open Access Programme, has won the NDLTD ETD Leadership Award 2024, which recognizes individuals whose leadership and vision has helped to raise awareness of the benefits of open access electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), and whose efforts have improved graduate education and research through the use of technology.

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: