With support from EIFL, Addis Ababa University Libraries (AAUL) has increased access to and visibility of research from academic institutions across Ethiopia by upgrading the national open access publishing platform, Ethiopian Journals Online (EJOL), and adding 21 new journals from 10 institutions to the platform. 

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, looks back at a great week at WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization).

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, looks back at a great week at WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization).

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, looks back at a great week at WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization).

The major achievement at the 43rd session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/43) was the adoption of a work programme on limitations and exceptions (L&Es) (document SCCR/43/8), reports Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager.

The major achievement at the 43rd session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/43) was the adoption of a work programme on limitations and exceptions (L&Es) (document SCCR/43/8), reports Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager.

The major achievement at the 43rd session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/43) was the adoption of a work programme on limitations and exceptions (L&Es) (document SCCR/43/8), reports Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager.

EIFL will participate in the 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023).

The conference theme is ‘Repositories unlocked for discovery and interoperability’. Presentations and discussion will centre on the practices of the international repositories community in developing and implementing the standards, frameworks, architectures, and methodologies for open repositories to serve as knowledge representation databases for the structured web of data.

EIFL will participate in the 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023).

The conference theme is ‘Repositories unlocked for discovery and interoperability’. Presentations and discussion will centre on the practices of the international repositories community in developing and implementing the standards, frameworks, architectures, and methodologies for open repositories to serve as knowledge representation databases for the structured web of data.

EIFL will participate in the 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023).

The conference theme is ‘Repositories unlocked for discovery and interoperability’. Presentations and discussion will centre on the practices of the international repositories community in developing and implementing the standards, frameworks, architectures, and methodologies for open repositories to serve as knowledge representation databases for the structured web of data.

To mark World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April 2023, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT), Strathmore University, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP), American University Washington College of Law and EIFL, in cooperation with the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO), have organized a workshop, Promoting Access to Knowledge and the Right to Research.

To mark World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April 2023, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT), Strathmore University, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP), American University Washington College of Law and EIFL, in cooperation with the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO), have organized a workshop, Promoting Access to Knowledge and the Right to Research.

To mark World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April 2023, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT), Strathmore University, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP), American University Washington College of Law and EIFL, in cooperation with the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO), have organized a workshop, Promoting Access to Knowledge and the Right to Research.

Ramune Petuchoviate, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Manager, shares a series of training videos, made using microlearning methodology, for training public librarians and public library trainers.

Ramune Petuchoviate, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Manager, shares a series of training videos, made using microlearning methodology, for training public librarians and public library trainers.

Ramune Petuchoviate, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) Manager, shares a series of training videos, made using microlearning methodology, for training public librarians and public library trainers.

Involved in institutional open access publishing in the European Research Area (ERA) or providing publishing services for organizations based within ERA? Participate in the DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) landscape survey - 

Involved in institutional open access publishing in the European Research Area (ERA) or providing publishing services for organizations based within ERA? Participate in the DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) landscape survey - 

Involved in institutional open access publishing in the European Research Area (ERA) or providing publishing services for organizations based within ERA? Participate in the DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) landscape survey - 

In January 2023, EIFL wrote to the President of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, requesting that he sign the Copyright Bill 2022 (SBs. 688 & 769) into law at the earliest opportunity. In March 2023, the President assented to the Copyright Act, rebooting Nigeria’s copyright system for the next generation.