Electronic information for Libraries (EIFL)

« EIFL, AJOL and WACREN announce the award of 17 grants to strengthen quality and sustainability of no-fee OA journals and journal platforms (…) »

« EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) invite African organizations – legal entities that own open access (OA) journals that do not charge any fees for either authors or readers (often referred to as Diamond OA journals), and where editorial teams…

« EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network), with support from Wellcome, are launching a three-year project that will strengthen the quality and sustainability of diamond open access (OA) publishing services across Africa while maintaining their diversity. (…) »

Recommendations to foster global equity in open access publishing from the first in a series of online workshops.

Universal Open Access is the first of Eight fundamental principles for scientific publishing, developed under ISC’s project on Scientific Publishing and adopted by ISC Members by…

(…) Target audience
Open Science policymakers, Research Funding Organizations and Research Performing Organizations managers, librarians, repository managers and academic institutional copyright experts. (…) »

« (…)The OpenEdition Freemium for Journals collection licensed by EIFL is available for free to everyone to read in HTML format via the publisher’s website. Through the agreement negotiated with EIFL, additional features, such as accessing and downloading journals in PDF or ePUB formats, are available at no cost (OpenEditions usually…

« EIFL has produced this checklist to support editors and publishers of open access journals using OJS software. OJS is created by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), which is a multi-university initiative developing free and open source software to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing. (…) »

« Join us in this webinar to find out more about Coko (the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation) and their community-based approach to developing open and shared publishing infrastructure.
Guided by the vision, ‘better, faster, more open publishing’, Coko facilitates publishers, funders, developers, researchers, service providers, and others to work together to…

« EIFL developed this checklist to help repository managers and administrators, librarians and other support staff involved in managing scholarly output at research and educational institutions to enhance their DSpace open access repositories. (…) »

« EIFL has renewed an agreement with Taylor & Francis that guarantees no – or highly reduced – Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors from EIFL partner countries who publish in a Taylor & Francis open access journal. (…)

The agreement benefits authors from 37 EIFL partner countries:

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,…