EIFL: News

Partnership with Endangered Archives Programme for Digitisation of Armenian Rare Books

The Endangered Archives Programme has awarded the Fundamental Scientific Library with a two year grant (August 2008 – August 2010) for preservation of the libraries endangered
collections.

One of the largest collections of early printed books and periodicals in the Republic o

Two new Open Access Journals from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia launched two Open Access journals: Armenian Journal of Mathematics and Armenian Journal of Physics.

Fundamental Library of Sciences awarded with NATO Networking Infrastructure Grant

NATO Networking Infrastucture Programme has awarded the Fundamental Scientific Library of Armenia with a grant to enable the harmonization of the Academy of Sciences network infrastructure with GEANT, a multi-gigabit pan-European data communications network, reserved specifically for research and education use. In order to do so, local tele

Portal of the Armenian Digital Library launched

Since January 2007 the Fundamental Scientific Library of Armenia has been carrying out a series of activities to introduce Open Source Software solutions to the academic community, librarians, students and library users. Within this framework, the leading scientific institution in the country, the National Academy of Sciences, is building

Developing a new scholarly communication system based on Open Access

The Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation in Armenia has granted the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with a one year grant to develop an Open Access based scholarly communication system for the national academic community.

The Fundamental Scientific Library of the Natio

Open Access briefing paper also available in Armenian

The short briefing paper on Open Access prepared by Key Perspectives is a useful resource to understand what Open Access is and what it is not. eIFL has encouraged the translation of this work in the local languages within its network. The latest contributions have been kindly made by the Armenian and Bulgarian library consortia