Next week the Bulgarian Information Consortium (BIC) will be hosting the 8th eIFL.net General Assembly. All is ready to welcome around 100 library and information technology professionals, including eIFL staff and Board members, librarians representing 40 eIFL member countries in Africa, former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Central and South East Asia and Eastern and Balkan Europe, invited ...

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 which add to the translations into Arabic, ...