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:

EIFL has joined Bluesky, the microblogging social media platform  where, from now on, you can keep up-to-date with our latest news, events and EIFL resources.

Follow us on Bluesky - @eifl.bsky.social - in addition to Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

We look forward to engaging with you on Bluesky!

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 how EIFL-negotiated open access agreements are making a difference.  

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 in 30 EIFL partner countries.