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

27 Aug 2025
Britt-Marie Wideberg, Manager of the EIFL Licensing Programme, analyzes the amount of research published in open access in 2024 by authors from EIFL partner countries to find out (...)
Award branding photo of three shiny brass trophies. The trophy is a metal spiral with a star on top, engraved with the words, EIFL Public Library Innovation Award.
25 Aug 2025
Growing numbers of public libraries are incorporating STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) activities in their services and programmes.  STEAM is a (...)
21 Aug 2025
Edward Elgar Publishing has added the Elgar Advanced Introductions: Law collection of textbooks to its agreement with EIFL, providing free access to the platform for institutions (...)
19 Aug 2025
Open science training is taking off in our partner countries. We conducted a survey of our partner national library consortia, and are delighted to report that last year over 10, (...)

Events

10 Sep 2025
Accra, Ghana
Ramunė Petuchovaitė, Manager of the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme ( (...)
11 Sep 2025
Online
Join us for the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, where we will (...)
22 Sep 2025 - 26 Sep 2025
Coimbra, Portugal, and Online,
EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator Milica Ševkušić will be one of (...)
30 Sep 2025 - 02 Oct 2025
Yerevan, Armenia
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 EIFL General Assembly, our major (...)

SPOTLIGHT

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

ANNUAL REPORT

In our 2024 Annual Report we share achievements and tell the stories of some of the people who have benefited from our work.

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