Britt-Marie Wideberg, Manager of the EIFL Licensing Programme, analyzes the amount of research published in open access in 2025 by authors from EIFL partner countries to find out how EIFL-negotiated open access agreements are making a difference.  

WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/48) met in Geneva from 18 - 22 May 2026. Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, joined members of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Coalition at SCCR/48 and reports on an important breakthrough on limitations and exceptions.

Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager, highlights public library initiatives in Ghana to support students preparing for exams. 

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, joined members of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Coalition at the latest session of WIPO’s copyright committee in Geneva from 18 - 22 May 2026, and reports on an important breakthrough on limitations and exceptions.

EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with The Company of Biologists to continue free access as well as free open access publishing for corresponding authors in all five of its journals. The agreement covers 33 EIFL partner countries and is valid until 31 December 2029.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will speak about Eastern European developments and challenges with multilingual content discovery at the COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) Annual Conference 2026. More information about the conference and a programme is here. 

EIFL is a COAR founding member and Iryna is a COAR Board member. 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access (OA) Programme Manager, and Tetyana Yaroshenko, EIFL-OA and Country Coordinator in Ukraine, will speak at the Open science in Ukraine: From declarations to actions webinar celebrating Open Government Week and Science Day. 

The webinar will be in Ukrainian and see more information about it in Ukrainian. 

The webinar will focus on the practical aspects of searching, discovering, and exploring scholarly literature using the AI-powered research tools Elicit, Consensus, and ResearchRabbit. Participants will learn how the free versions of these tools can support literature reviews, identify relevant publications, uncover research trends, and improve research workflows.

It is intended for researchers, librarians, and trainers interested in using AI tools to support scholarly research and learning.

Join this EIFL webinar to learn more about research workflows using AI tools

The webinar will focus on the practical aspects of searching, discovering, and exploring scholarly literature using the free versions of AI-powered research assistants SciSpace and Undermind. Participants will learn how these tools can support literature reviews, identify relevant publications, uncover research trends, and improve research workflows.

It is intended for researchers, librarians, and trainers interested in using AI tools to support scholarly research and learning.

Following a consultation in January 2026 by the European Commission on the European Research Area (ERA) Act, six major European organisations – ALLEA, EIFL, IFLA, LIBER, OPERAS, and SPARC Europe have issued a landmark joint statement.  

The joint statement reflects on the current state of open science in Europe and outlines key remaining barriers that require a coordinated approach for open science to reach its full potential. 

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss strategies and tools to motivate your journal peer reviewers and Reviewer credits tool.

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss training programmes for editorial teams, reviewers and authors. 

EIFL’s Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, Teresa Hackett, will attend two events in Geneva: a public lecture by renowned international scholar, Professor Maggie Chon, and the 48th session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR).

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train students and teachers of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of the E-Library.

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train students and teachers of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of the E-Library.

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train students and teachers of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of the E-Library.

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

Date and time: 20 May 2026 at 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT (Convert to your timezone).

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss experiences of optimizing journal processes and workflows.

Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, which will discuss how institutions strategically plan open science training, balancing long-term capacity building with project- and funder-driven training requirements, and how these approaches can be aligned more effectively.