Nepal

Renewal agreement for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine Online 14 May 2013
EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with Oxford University Press for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine Online.  The agreement runs until 31 December 2015 and is open to EIFL-partner consortia in 14 countries: Albania, Armenia, Cambodia, Kosovo (...
Renewal agreement for Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online 14 May 2013
EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with Oxford University Press for Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online.  The agreement runs until 31 December 2015 and is open to EIFL-partner consortia in over 40 countries: Albania, Armenia,...
New agreement for Credo Online Reference Service, Academic Core Collection 10 May 2013
EIFL has signed a new agreement with Credo for Credo Online Reference Service, Academic Core Collection. The agreement runs until 31 December 2015, and is open to members of EIFL-partner consortia in the following 27 countries: Albania, Belarus,...
EIFL statement in support of LDC TRIPs waiver 4 Mar 2013
In the run-up to the World Trade Organization (WTO) TRIPS Council meeting on 5-6 March 2013, EIFL issued a statement in support of the request by least developed countries (LDCs) for an extension, without pre-condition, of the LDC transition period...
Renewal agreement for OED Online and Oxford Reference Online 8 Feb 2013
EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with Oxford University Press for the Oxford English Dictionary Online and Oxford Reference Online.  The agreement runs from 1 January 2013 until 31 December 2013 and is open to EIFL-partner consortia in over...
New agreement for Pediatric Neurology Briefs 7 Jan 2013
EIFL has signed a new agreement with Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishing for the Pediatric Neurology Briefs (PNB). The agreement runs until 31 December 2015, and is open to members of all 48 EIFL-partner consortia in the following countries:...
NepJOL celebrates OA Week, Nepal 16 Oct 2012
Lal Bahadur Chouhan, Tribhuvan University Central Library (Nepal) reports about two new journals that have been added to Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL): International Journal of Infection and Microbiology joined on 06/08/2012; and Nepalese Journal...
Five innovative library ideas win awards 12 Oct 2012
Five public and community libraries won grants of US$10,000 for innovative community development ideas during the Beyond Access 2012 conference in Washington. Three of the winners are current grantees of EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (...
New agreement for EBSCO eBook Academic Subscription Collection 26 Sep 2012
EIFL has signed a new agreement with EBSCO Publishing for the EBSCO eBook Academic Subscription Collection. The agreement runs until 31 December 2015, and offers discounted pricing to EIFL-partner consortia in the following countries: Armenia,...
New agreement for IMF eLibrary 10 Sep 2012
EIFL has signed a new agreement with IMF Publications for the IMF eLibrary, the IMF's premier research tool. The agreement runs from 1 September 2012 to 31 December 2014, and offers free or highly discounted access to members of EIFL-partner...
New agreement for SAGE Research Methods 5 Sep 2012
EIFL has signed a new agreement with SAGE Publications for SAGE Research Methods. The agreement runs from 1 September 2012 to 31 December 2015, and offers discounted pricing to EIFL-partner consortia, and member institutions, in the following...
Four libraries win EIFL-PLIP economic wellbeing award 8 Aug 2012
EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) is delighted to announce the winners of the first Innovation Award – for library services that improve community economic wellbeing. Congratulations to four libraries in four continents: Africa...
The winners of EIFL call for proposals: Open access advocacy campaigns 20 Jun 2012
Following the success of last year's grant competition (see EIFL-OA case studies), the EIFL-OA programme invited new proposals for national or institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. Over 40 proposals were...
Case studies document FOSS solutions for libraries 15 Feb 2012
Through its pilot project programme, EIFL-FOSS encourages implementation of FOSS solutions in libraries. In 2011, new pilot projects from Armenia, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Zimbabwe were selected to demonstrate implementation of a service that...
EIFL-PLIP libraries to share learning in Ljubljana 5 Jan 2012
Grantee libraries from the first two phases of EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (PLIP) will share learning at the grantee meeting in Ljubljana (Slovenia) this month. Over 30 librarians from Africa, Latin America and Europe will attend the...
EIFL celebrates Open Access Week 2011 7 Nov 2011
Over 30 partner countries conduct activities
Fifth annual event draws broad global participation, highlights deep community commitment to open access Open Access Week, the annual event celebrating the global movement towards open access to research and scholarship, kicked off for the fifth...
EIFL 2010 annual report is online 6 Jun 2011
Our 2010 annual report is out and available for download! Read about our successful year, all made possible thanks to ongoing collaboration with our partner countries and the continued support of our funders. Read the 2010 EIFL annual report
DOAJ: new milestones 18 Apr 2011
Today the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) includes 6410 journals from 111 countries in more than 50 languages.  2793 journals are providing metadata on article level, which means that 554412 articles are searchable from DOAJ. ...
EIFL-FOSS Apache Solr Online Workshop 4 Apr 2011
Apache Solr is an open source search engine platform which is used by many public and commercial websites. It underpins faceted search user interface and provides various advanced features such as spelling suggestion, auto-suggest and snippet...
EIFL-FOSS Faceted Search Online Workshop 4 Apr 2011
Faceted search is becoming a contemporary and de facto search tool for content rich websites, in particular online stores and digital libraries. It is a resource discovery approach which has the propensities to enhance user experience. In this...