The next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in Africa, that now includes 358 members, will take place on 20 August 2025 at 10:00 UTC. 

The meeting will be moderated by Femi Arogundade, of WACREN (West and Central African Research and Education Network), and Iryna Kuchma and Milica Ševkušić, of the EIFL Open Access Programme. Training programmes will be discussed and news and updates from CoP members will be shared. 

The fifth webinar in the DIAMAS Conversation Series will introduce the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) Training Platform – its structure and the training modules designed to support the growth of the Diamond open access ecosystem. The introduction will be followed by an open discussion on user experiences, needs and ideas about  how the training resources can be adapted to support capacity building at national and institutional levels.

EIFL will be celebrating International Open Access Week 2025 with libraries, researchers and students in our partner countries. Open Access Week is an annual, global event established by SPARC to raise awareness about open access and to call for open access to be the norm in scholarship and research.

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will train master’s degree students in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of Laos in the use of  Zotero free and open source reference management software for managing bibliographic data and related research materials.