EIFL-FOSS

July-August newsletter is online 14 Jul 2011
Our July-August newsletter issue is online, with the latest news on EIFL and partner country activities, including a spotlight on the EIFL-PLIP programme. PDF version
EIFL Open Access programme wins SPARC Europe Award 4 Jul 2011
The EIFL Open Access (OA) programme has been chosen as the winner of the 2011 SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications for its awareness raising, advocacy and capacity building activities over the last three years...
Investigating mobile-phone access to libraries in Zimbabwe 17 Jun 2011
Providing mobile access to library services is a vital way of increasing access to information and e-resources.  Following the EIFL-FOSS Call for Participation in October / November 2010, The University of Zimbabwe Library expressed an...
Koha - making the case for FOSS 10 Jun 2011
Advocating for FOSS can be a difficult task. Providing the right kinds of information, exemplars of where it has been successful, and the benefits it may bring to your library, takes a lot of time and effort to compile, and then has to be presented...
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
SABER: an innovative approach to creating a FOSS (DSpace) Open Access Repository 1 Jun 2011
Henk van Dam of KIT, Netherlands, and Aissa Mitha Issak, EIFL Country and Open Access Coordinator for Mozambique, have worked on a case study for the EIFL FOSS website describing the success of SABER, a multi-institutional repository based on the...
FOSS Disability Tools having impact in Zimbabwe 27 May 2011
In January 2011 we announced a new pilot project at the University of Zimbabwe to support library users with visual disabilities using FOSS accessibility tools (read the news story here). They have made some impressive progress since then - here is...
May-June newsletter is online 17 May 2011
Our May-June newsletter issue is online, with the latest news on EIFL and partner country activities, including a spotlight on the EIFL-PLIP programme. PDF version
Open Access Repositories with EPrints 9 May 2011
EPrints provides an easy and fast way to set up repositories of open access research literature, scientific data, theses, reports and multimedia. Interested in finding out more about the free open source EPrints software – a flexible platform for...
OpenBiblio training for small or rural Armenian libraries 9 May 2011
Training for small and rural libraries on OpenBiblio ILS On April 19-21, 2011 in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the NAS, Republic of Armenia, training courses were organized for the 11 librarians from the Shirak, Aragatsotn, Armavir regional...
Apache Solr: implementing faceted search 20 Apr 2011
Apache Solr is an open source faceted search engine or server platform from the Apache Software Foundation. It is an application built upon Lucene – a full-text search library also from Apache. Both Solr and Lucene are written in Java. The name is...
Digital Libraries: a UNESCO funded Greenstone workshop in Mauritius 18 Apr 2011
A UNESCO-funded workshop took place between April 11th and 15th in Mauritius. A total of 14 participants were trained in the building of Digital Libraries using Greenstone Open Source Software. The event was hosted by the Mauritius Institute of...
Faceted Search: more effective and efficient searching for library users 18 Apr 2011
EIFL FOSS workshop introduces user-focussed search tools
Faceted search is becoming a popular methodology for content rich websites, catalogues and repositories, including digital libraries. It is a resource discovery approach which has the propensity to enhance user experience. There are a wide variety...
CUFTS/GODOT: helping library users discover e-resources 21 Mar 2011
EIFL workshop brings together experts to share knowledge
Enabling users to discover and access e-resources, and managing expanding e-resource collections cost-effectively, are key challenges facing libraries around the world. To address these issues, EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-Licensing organised the third EIFL-...
March-April newsletter is online 8 Mar 2011
Our March-April 2011 newsletter issue is online, with the latest news on all EIFL programmes, including a spotlight on 3 of our consortia celebrating 10 years.
Shibboleth - enabling access to commercial e-resources 3 Mar 2011
EIFL workshop brings together experts to share knowledge
Libraries in many EIFL countries are unable to get access to commercial e-resources because they don't have static IP addresses or are accessing the internet via a public or shared IP address.  Many others are unable to offer their users...
Automation of rural libraries in Armenia 3 Mar 2011
  Case Study Armenia: introducing ‘OpenBiblio’ ILS to Armenian library community Background Following the EIFL-FOSS Call for Participation in October / November 2010, Tigran Zargaryan (EIFL FOSS coordinator for Armenia) expressed a desire to...
Koha Union Catalogue for Nepali libraries 15 Feb 2011
Following the EIFL-FOSS Call for Participation in October / November 2010, a number of open source projects are getting underway in a variety of libraries.  One of these is a project in Nepal, led by Nepal FOSS Coordinator Dibyendra Hyoju at...
SubjectsPlus in Zimbabwe: helps users find e-resources 14 Feb 2011
SubjectsPlus will address one of the main challenges facing library users in the digital environment−how to locate high-quality, relevant e-resources both commercial and open access. Following the EIFL-FOSS Call for Participation in October /...
Armenia archives moving toward broader access 8 Feb 2011
Following the EIFL-FOSS Call for Participation in October / November 2010, a number of projects are getting underway in a variety of areas.  One of these, in Armenia, is designed to help archives upgrade their technology in order to provide...