EIFL-OA

Open access policy at Covenant University, Nigeria 10 Feb 2011
Covenant University has introduced a policy that all refereed publications in journals, conferences, books, be deposited in the University Repository. This applies to faculty and Post-graduate students alike. (Source: ROARMAP) With this policy,...
Join NDLTD and participate in ETD 2011 7 Feb 2011
News from EIFL partners
Last year EIFL and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) decided to work together to promote the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and...
Implementation of open content licenses 31 Jan 2011
The survey attempted to gather information from a broad spectrum of research institutions in developing and transition countries in order to get a better understanding of the current state of the implementation of open content licenses. We looked at...
Open access journals of Polish Academy of Sciences 31 Jan 2011
The Polish Academy of Science has decided to further expand availability of research by publishing twenty-one of its journals across various scientific disciplines in open access. Versita Open has been chosen as the technology and publishing...
OpenAIRE is good for global research 11 Jan 2011
OpenAIRE - the European infrastructure for open access to research results. In 2007, the European Union spent €228 billion ($301 billion) or 1.85% of GDP on research and development. “Europe 2020” - the European Union’s strategy for smart and...
OpenAIRE launches 2 Dec 2010
EIFL is a partner in OpenAIRE to provide open access to EU-funded scientific research results OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), an EC-funded project, launched the OpenAIRE infrastructure and presented the first results...
UNESCO, ASSAf and EIFL organize an OA workshop 20 Nov 2010
UNESCO, in collaboration with the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and EIFL, is organizing a workshop on the benefits of Open Access for research dissemination, usage, visibility and impact. The workshop will take place in Pretoria (...
International Open Access Week Report 12 Nov 2010
The largest, most successful International Open Access Week was organised on October 18-24. With just under 900 participants in 94 countries, this year’s event was no less than three times larger than it was just a year ago. Hundreds of videos,...
EIFL partners with Maghreb universities 12 Nov 2010
The vision for the future of Maghreb (North African) universities is that students and faculty will have easy-to-use, online access to a wide variety of scientific and technical information. This vision will become reality through a three-year EC...
Open Access Week 2010 begins – activities in EIFL partner countries 21 Oct 2010
  October 18 marks the start of Open Access Week 2010, as thousands of scholars, faculty, and students in nearly 90 countries worldwide participate in events to raise awareness and advance understanding of the benefits of open access. A...
Changing research in Mozambique with a shared institutional repository 3 Sep 2010
An institutional repository (IR) is a publicly accessible archive where the work published by authors affiliated with the university is available online. According to the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), there are over 1,700...
OpenAIRE Guidelines 1.0: Guidelines for content providers of the OpenAIRE information space (July 2010) are released 24 Aug 2010
The OpenAIRE Guidelines 1.0 will provide orientation for repository managers to define and implement their local data management policies in compliance with the Open Access demands of the European Commission. Furthermore they will comply with the...
A call to the African Union to consider Open Access policies, publishing, and repositories 20 Aug 2010
  Is Open Access to information through libraries on the agenda at the African Union when it comes to assessing countries’ development under the African Peer Review Mechanisms? – asks Matseliso M. (Tseli) Moshoeshoe-Chadzingwa, National...
The Metamorphosis Foundation launched Digital Repositories website 21 Jul 2010
The Metamorphosis Foundation launched Digital Repositories website as an adaptation of the Digital Repositories infoKit published by JISC infoNe. It is available in Macedonian language and will soon be released in Albanian language as well. The...
Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries - an updated version after comments 9 Jul 2010
The first version of the report was released on July 7, 2010 with request for comments and more case studies on using open content licenses by open access journals and open access repositories in developing and transition countries. This is a second...
Coming soon: a new repository of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova 5 Jul 2010
    The Scientific Library of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova - an active member of the Consortium eIFL Direct Moldova - has won a grant from the Norway Embassy in Romania to create the country's first thematic...
Update: EIFL-OA program and network workshops and presentations in May-June 5 Jul 2010
    A lot has been going on in EIFL-OA program and network since our last newsletter. On May 12-14 we gave a training on “HOW TO Open Repositories: Setting up an open access repository, Policies and Legal Issues, Expanding Content...
Report on Open Repository Development in Developing and Transition countries is released 5 Jul 2010
  This study was conducted with the cooperation of eIFL.net, the University of Kansas Libraries, the DRIVER project and Key Perspectives Ltd. The aim was to create an inventory of current digital repository activities in developing and...
Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries is released 5 Jul 2010
  The survey attempted to gather information from a broad spectrum of research institutions in developing and transition countries in order to get a better understanding of the current state of the implementation of open content licenses. Open...
Who's Using DSpace registry 25 Jun 2010
  The DSpace Global Outreach Committee is updating the "Who's Using DSpace" registry, the most popular page on the DSpace website. Our goal is to keep everyone's repository information updated to help facilitate connections between users and...