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...
EIFL releases results of OA advocacy grants
8 Mar 2013
EIFL-OA programme is pleased to release the case studies of the results of its advocacy grants. These case studies describe the results of the 2012 national and institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research...
OA awareness-raising at El Neelain Uni, Sudan
20 Feb 2013
SudHENL project – Open Access (OA) Advocacy at Sudan Higher Education Institutions National Level – will host an OA awareness-raising event for graduate students at El Neelain University.
Read more about the project key achievements, strategies,...
OA awareness-raising at Soba Hospital, Sudan
20 Feb 2013
SudHENL project – Open Access (OA) Advocacy at Sudan Higher Education Institutions National Level – will host an OA awareness-raising event for the health care providers at Soba Hospital examination centre.
Read more about the project key...
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...
Advocating for open access in Kenya and Sudan – case studies
5 Feb 2013
Knowledge without Boundaries: Advocacy campaign in Kenya for open access and institutional repositories
The overall goal for the project was to promote and advocate for open access (OA) initiatives to a range of stakeholders – policy makers and...
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:...
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...
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 campaign case studies: Malawi, Sudan, Zimbabwe
15 Feb 2012
EIFL has provided small grants to support national and institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities.
Below are the results of institutional campaigns from Malawi, Sudan, and Zimbabwe as...
Sudanese consortium organises FOSS workshop
11 Jan 2012
On 2 January, 2012, the University of Khartoum Electronic Library held a training session on the Koha Integrated Library Management System, which will be implemented in 3 major public universities in Sudan: University of Khartoum; Sudan University...
EIFL-FOSS regional seminar explores tools for libraries
15 Nov 2011
EIFL and UNESCO partner to bring together library directors and IT staff to learn about free software solutions for libraries
Library directors and technical staff from 14 countries across Africa met in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to attend an...
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...
Open Access workshop at the University of Khartoum
2 Nov 2011
On November 17, 2011, Dspace@ScienceUofK, the Faculty of Science, University of Khartoum institutional repository (OASCIR project) will organize an Open Access workshop. EIFL Open Access Programme Manager was invited to give a presentation.
The...
EIFL Poster at Berlin9
28 Oct 2011
At the upcoming Berlin9 conference, the EIFL-OA programme will present a poster that describes 11 OA advocacy campaign projects from across the EIFL network: Botswana, Estonia, Ghana, Latvia, Lithuania, Malawi, Poland, Slovenia, Sudan, Ukraine, and...