Rima Kupryte, Director of EIFL will attend the 18th Berlin Open Access Conference (B18) organized by OA Forward.  B18  will convene senior leaders from research institutions, library consortia, and funding bodies alongside major publishers to address a central question: What must change now to realign scholarly publishing with the interests of the research community?

EIFL has renewed the agreement with Royal Society Publishing for a further three years until December 2029. The agreement provides EIFL partner countries with free or deeply discounted access to eight high-impact journals in the physical and biological sciences, and waived Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing in fully open access and hybrid journals.

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EIFL has renewed its read & publish agreement with the European Respiratory Society. The agreement is open to libraries and authors from 36 EIFL partner countries.

From January 2027 to December 2029, the agreement will cover free and discounted read & publish prices for access to and publishing in its flagship journal, the European Respiratory Journal, and three other journals.

We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2025 Annual Report, in which we share our achievements and tell the stories of people who have benefited from our work.

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.  

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.

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.

EIFL has signed a three-year agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica Ltd providing discounted pricing for Britannica Academic, a comprehensive, authoritative digital library featuring expert-reviewed encyclopedia articles, primary sources, journals, and multimedia.

Libraries in 29  EIFL partner countries are eligible to access Britannica Academic through this agreement. The agreement starts on 1 April 2026 and runs for three years, until 31 March  2029.