We have renewed our agreement with the Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing for three years, until 2028. For the first time, the EIFL-IOP agreement includes free or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) for publishing in open access in IOP hybrid journals in addition to free or discounted read access to the IOPscience Extra package.

EIFL has negotiated free access to the IOPscience Extra package for 19 EIFL partner countries, and discounted access for nine EIFL partner countries.

EIFL has renewed and expanded its agreement with World Scientific for one year, until the end of 2026. The renewed agreement provides waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors to publish in 145 hybrid or gold (fully) open access journals in various fields.

Over the last three decades, World Scientific has established itself as the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region. 

EIFL has negotiated waived APCs for 26 EIFL partner countries, and discounted APCs for eight EIFL partner countries.

The EIFL-Cambridge University Press (CUP) agreement has been renewed for a further year, until December 2026. The renewed agreement includes free and discounted access to journals and publishing in open access in CUP journals. 

Free and discounted read access to 423 CUP journal titles

13 EIFL partner countries are eligible for free access:

• Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Kosovo, Laos, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Palestine, Senegal, Sudan, Ukraine

6  EIFL partner countries are eligible for discounted access:

EIFL has renewed its agreement with SAGE Publishing for access to and publishing in SAGE journals for a further three years, until December 2028.

Free access

Under the renewed agreement, libraries in 11 EIFL countries can get free access to the SAGE Premier collection of over 935 leading international peer-reviewed journals:

• Armenia, Congo DR, Ethiopia, Georgia, Myanmar, Palestine, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Ukraine,  Zambia

Discounted access

EIFL and OpenEdition have renewed their agreement for the OpenEdition Freemium collection of journals for one year, until December 2026.  This agreement provides libraries in 28 countries with free access to 184 journals + 17 bonus titles.

Around 80% of the journals are published in French, and other languages include English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The journals are available in HTML, PDF and ePub formats without technical (DRM) restrictions

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will travel to Laos to provide five days of training for teachers and students at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (FLP) at the National University of Laos. Training will cover content, navigation and use of the FLP E-Library in teaching, learning and research. In addition, Sevcova will deliver a public lecture, giving an overview of the E-Library.

The programme is as follows:

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