“Major reform is never born of chance. It is the fruit of a shared vision, patient dialogue, sustained cooperation, and collective commitment in service of the common good,” writes Awa Diouf Cissé, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Coordinator in this article published in Senegal’s ‘Le Soleil’ newspaper. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will speak at the Female Academic Network for Africa Research and International Collaboration (FANARC) Conference. The theme of the conference is ‘Research Visibility and International Collaboration’. 

Milica will deliver a presentation titled 'Digital Tools for Research Visibility'. The conference is hosted by the Adventist University of Africa. Registration can be found here.

Join the next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa. 

Date and time: 19 August at 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT (convert to your timezone).

Rima Kupryte, Director of EIFL will attend the 18th Berlin Open Access Conference (B18) organized by OA Forward.  B18  will convene senior leaders from research institutions, library consortia, and funding bodies alongside major publishers to address a central question: What must change now to realign scholarly publishing with the interests of the research community?

Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers and discuss experiences with running workshops for research offices. Amy P. A. Asimah and Dominic Dankwah will also share their experiences of conducting open science training in Ghana.    

Date and time: 12 August 2026, 9:00 UTC (Convert to your timezone).

Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up.

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss communications, marketing, visibility and impact of Diamond OA journals. 

EIFL has renewed the agreement with Royal Society Publishing for a further three years until December 2029. The agreement provides EIFL partner countries with free or deeply discounted access to eight high-impact journals in the physical and biological sciences, and waived Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing in fully open access and hybrid journals.

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Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will facilitate a webinar for the EIFL partner in DRC - Consortium des Bibliothèques Académiques du Congo. The webinar will outline the opportunities offered by the EIFL-negotiated agreements for open access (OA) publishing. Participants will learn how to identify eligible journals, submit a manuscript, understand waivers and discounts in Article Processing Charges (APCs), and adopt best practices to enhance the visibility and impact of their research. 

In an open letter to the European Parliament, EIFL joins over 35 organizations calling on the European Parliament to reject the introduction of actor-specific licences for access to public sector information and data in Europe. To address concerns about market dominance and unfair competition by very large enterprises, mechanisms for differentiated charging should instead be used. 

Join the next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa. 

Date and time: 15 July at 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT (convert to your timezone).

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will speak at the training session on Open Research in Practice: Data Management, Sharing, Transparency and New Models of Scholarly Communication, hosted by the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association’s Research Output, Outcomes and Impact Community of Practice.

Reports from projects aiming to strengthen the quality and sustainability of African no-fee open access (OA) publishing are continuing to come in, and we take pleasure in sharing results from three projects, in Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa.

EIFL’s comments to the European Commission's Call for Evidence supporting a review of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive focus on two specific areas: facilitating research and sharing the results of publicly-funded research.

EIFL will host a working session on Financial sustainability planning for eight grantees of the ‘Collaboration for sustainable open access publishing in Africa’ project. The grantees are publishing 14 no-fee (Diamond) Open Access (OA) journals and are developing financial sustainability strategies and action plans for their journals. 

Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, where Jonathan England, OpenAIRE’s Open Science Training Specialist, will explore accessibility in open science training and share practical approaches to designing more inclusive learning experiences. The presentation will be followed by a discussion on how institutions strategically plan open science training.  

Public librarians in Africa are invited to an online capacity-building event focused on community needs assessment as the key to developing a successful library service or programme. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will facilitate the workshop, ‘Science Without Borders: Why Do We Need an Open Scholarly Infrastructure?’, organized in collaboration with the Serbian Reproducibility Network and the Open Science Community Serbia as a satellite ahead of the Application of Free Software and Open Hardware (PSSOH) conference.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will speak at the Open Journal Systems (OJS) training session for editors and reviewers of the Revue Ecosystèmes et Paysages. 

Ramune Petuchovaite, Manager of the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP), will participate in satellite meetings and the main conference of the 2026 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress (WLIC). The Congress is themed ‘Libraries Powering Transformation’.