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29 Apr 2021
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
How can you make sure your open science policies and strategies take account of local needs, and at the same time, accommodate broader regional priorities? There is no one answer, says Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager.  How to design open science policies that address local needs, (...)
Cartoon showing open science training bootcamp.
17 Feb 2021
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, looks forward to a challenging and busy year for open science training. Moving open access and open science training events online was a challenge and an opportunity in 2020. Training in a virtual environment diminishes the variety of interactions (...)
08 Dec 2020
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has helped raise funds for six open access and open science infrastructures, generating 2,781,525 Euros in just three years. Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, who is on the SCOSS Board, updates us on SCOSS’ (...)
14 Jul 2020
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
June was a busy month for the LIBSENSE Initiative - a collaborative space through which libraries and research and education networks (RENs) are advancing open access and open science in Africa. At a LIBSENSE virtual workshop co-organized by LIBSENSE partners, EIFL, the West and Central African (...)
People sitting and working in groups open science trainer bootcamp in Debrecen, Hungary.
06 Feb 2019
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
Members of the EIFL Open Access Programme team, Iryna Kuchma and Gwen Franck, blog about a new training format and training resources for open science trainers.  Take our training materials, build on our training format and organize your train-the-trainer event!  Open scholarship is growing in (...)
A group of women trainers who took part in the EIFL open science train-the-trainers workshop in Ethiopia in June 2017.
17 Mar 2018
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
‘Is your institution willing and committed to offer training on open access, open research data and open science as a part of standard training for PhD students?’ This is the question we asked our network a year ago. We also offered support in developing such training courses for those who were (...)
Group photo of participants at a workshop on research evaluation and data science for libraries hosted by EIFL and EIFL’s partner library consortium, Electronic Information for Libraries in Thailand, at Mahidol University in Salaya, Thailand.
21 Feb 2018
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
Open scholarship is growing in importance as a way of ensuring that there is global participation in research, improved quality and efficiency of education and science, and faster economic and social progress. Over the next two years, the EIFL Open Access Programme will support open scholarship by (...)