Open access – the immediate, online, free and unrestricted availability of peer-reviewed research literature, and open science – collaborative and transparent research, are powerful solutions to the barriers that researchers in developing and transition countries face trying to access and share critical research that can improve people’s lives.

WHAT WE DO

IMPACT

people trained
20 years of EIFL-OA
Open Access and Open Science policies

NEWS

Iryna Kuchma, Manager of the EIFL Open Access Programme, has won the NDLTD ETD (...)
Open repositories are a tool for climate action. By increasing the number of climate (...)
EIFL has compiled a new guide, Choosing a Journal for Your Research: Checklist for (...)

BLOG

What can and can’t AI do? Is it ethical and safe to use chatbots for research tasks (...)
In December 2023 a group of librarians and open science enthusiasts organized a (...)
Enhancing open science and open research skills in our partner countries is among (...)

EVENTS

Webinar for repository managers from Africa and Europe who are involved in Paper (...)
Webinar for repository managers from North and South America who are involved in (...)
Iryna Kuchma, Manager of the EIFL Open Access Programme, will speak at this Fiji (...)
EIFL-OA IN ACTION
EIFL and partners in the DIAMAS project enhance op (...)
EIFL helps launch a national open access policy an (...)
EIFL and partners AJOL and WACREN launch three-yea (...)
EIFL has had an outsized impact on the development of Open Access globally. Since the EIFL-OA programme launched 20 years ago, EIFL has been at the forefront of raising awareness of, and support for, Open Access. EIFL's unique ability to work with their national library consortia in over 35 developing and transition countries, allows the organization to facilitate the open sharing of the wealth of research produced in these countries so as to create a global research commons, one of the greatest ambitions of the Open Access movement.
Melissa Hagemann, Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)

CONTACT US

For questions, please contact the Open Access Programme Manager Iryna Kuchma:  iryna.kuchma@eifl.net