KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

EIFL works in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America

E-LIBRARIES FOR MYANMAR

Connecting university students with research online

The right to read

Advocating for people with print disabilities

Power of open access

Helping doctors to access health research in Kenya 

Public Library Innovation

Changing lives of children in Kibera

EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) works with libraries to enable access to knowledge for education, learning, research and sustainable community development. Our vision is a world in which all people have the knowledge they need to achieve their full potential.

News

17 Jun 2024
EIFL has published a new guide on Rights Retention and Secondary Publishing Rights to support researchers and authors in EIFL partner countries.  Authors (or in some cases, their (...)
07 Jun 2024
The DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) project has launched the Diamond OA Standard (DOAS) tool for institutional (...)
A librarian teaches school students in a school classroom online safety skills, using a whiteboard and projector for slides.
03 Jun 2024
Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Impact Manager, tells how training of public library trainers in Ghana is shifting library perspectives on (...)
Screenshot from video recording, clockwise from top left, EIFL’s Teresa Hackett introduces speakers Dr Desmond Oriakhogba, Associate Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Dr John O. Asein, Director-General, Nigerian Copyright Commission, and Jonathan Band PLLC.
24 May 2024
At a recent webinar organized by EIFL in cooperation with the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), experts agreed that Nigeria’s Copyright Act, 2022 (adopted in 2023) is one of (...)

Events

03 Jul 2024
Online
Join us for the fourth EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, where we (...)
03 Jul 2024
Online
EIFL will organize an online information session with EIFL’s partner, the (...)
24 Jul 2024
Online
Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Impact (...)

SPOTLIGHT

EIFL updates lists of journals in which corresponding authors from EIFL partner countries can publish in open access

ANNUAL REPORT

In our 2023 Annual Report we share achievements and tell the stories of some of the people who have benefited from our work. The report also celebrates the 20th anniversary of the EIFL Open Access Programme with a special feature about the contribution that the programme has made to facilitating the open sharing of research over two decades.

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