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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,...
Renewal agreement for Cambridge Journals Online 11 Apr 2013
EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with Cambridge University Press for Cambridge Journals Online.  The agreement runs until 31 December 2013 and is open to EIFL-partner consortia in 36 countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia...
Mary Ann Liebert Journals now available through EIFL 11 Mar 2013
We are pleased to announce that we have negotiated discounted pricing for the Mary Ann Liebert Journals Collection for members of EIFL-partner consortia in the following countries: Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine Available...
Five library ICT services improve farmers’ lives 14 Feb 2013
Five public library agricultural services funded by EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) have assessed their impact. We take pleasure in sharing the results. Read about how –   Berd Public Library in Armenia increased...
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:...
Recommendations to advance OA in Eastern Europe 14 Nov 2012
UNESCO, jointly with the National Library of Belarus, organised a “Regional Consultation on Open Access to Scientific Information and Research” from the 5th - 7th September 2012 in Minsk, the Republic of Belarus. More than 40 participants from 20...
Renewal agreement for the Taylor & Francis Online Journal Library 7 Nov 2012
EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with the Taylor & Francis Group for the Taylor & Francis Online Journal Library. The agreement runs until 31 December 2015, and offers discounted pricing to EIFL-partner consortia, and member institutions...
Open Access Week in Latvia 23 Oct 2012
The Library of the University of Latvia celebrates international Open Access Week for the fourth year in a row. This year during the Open Access Week, the Library organizes two major events. On October 24 from 6pm till 8pm there will be a...
New agreement for IET Digital Library 28 Sep 2012
EIFL has signed a new agreement with The Institution of Engineering and Technology for the IET Digital Library. The agreement runs until 31 December 2015, and offers discounted pricing to EIFL-partner consortia, and member institutions, in the...
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...
Regional Consultation on OA Concept and Policies 15 Aug 2012
UNESCO will be organizing a Regional Consultation on “Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies” in Minsk, Belarus, from 5 to 7 September 2012. The Consultation is being organized in the framework of the 90th...
New agreement signed with Cengage Learning 12 Jul 2012
EIFL has signed a new agreement with Cengage Learning for a range of Gale e-resources: Biography in Context (new) Business Insights: Global (new) General OneFile Global Issues in Context  GREENR (new) Student Resources in...
Library webinars a hit with Latvian farmers 9 Jul 2012
Klintaine Public Library’s new webinar service is a big hit with farmers, who report that it is saving them time and money and helping them clarify complex tax and subsidy regulations. ‘Hand in Hand’ – the brainchild of Klintaine Public Library – is...
OpenAIREplus workshop: Linking OA publications to data 22 Jun 2012
On June 11, an OpenAIRE workshop “Linking open access publications to data – policy development and implementation” was organized as a pre-Nordbib meeting at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. All talks were recorded and the film clips and slides can...
2nd OpenAIRE Summit 22 Jun 2012
On 21/22 November, 2012 in Göttingen State and University Library, the 2nd OpenAIRE Summit "Enlightenment in the Knowledge Society: From Pilot to Service" will present the results of the OpenAIRE project, which supports the EC FP7 Open Access Pilot...
EIFL open access advocacy grants deliver big results 28 Feb 2012
Libraries reaching out to research communities in developing and transition countries
Open access (OA) seeks to remove price and permission barriers that prevent knowledge from being shared. OA increases visibility, usage and impact of research and provides significant economic, social and educational benefits. The EIFL-OA programme...
OA Advocacy at the University of Latvia: A case study 17 Feb 2012
Ugis Skele reports about the results of the EIFL-funded project: “Information about Open Access movement and resources at the University of Latvia“. Key achievements: An Open Access institutional repository was launched in May 2011; currently there...
PLIP meeting succeeds despite snowstorms 7 Feb 2012
Representatives of EIFL’s 14 new Public Library Innovation Programme (PLIP) services arrived safely in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in January for their first meeting, despite snowstorms that swept across Europe, grounding aircraft and interrupting road and...