Join us for the third online meet-up of open science trainers, where we will discuss training related news and activities. 

• Date and time: 4 June 2024,  09:00 UTC 
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up

EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) have invited African organizations - legal entities that own open access (OA) journals that do not charge any fees for either authors or readers (often referred to as Diamond OA journals), and where editorial teams are based - to participate in the grant call, Strengthening no-fee open access publishing in Africa. 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will talk about strategies to implement open science at the 2nd International Scientific and Technical Conference, ‘Materials and Technologies in Engineering, MTE-2024’.

Join the first webinar in the newly-launched DIAMAS Conversation series for libraries that aims to engage libraries in advancing Diamond open access (OA) in Europe. EIFL will co-facilitate the DIAMAS Conversation series, which focuses on sustainability and other issues and challenges faced by Diamond OA publishers. 

EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) invite African organizations - legal entities that own open access (OA) journals that do not charge any fees for either authors or readers (often referred to as Diamond OA journals), and where editorial teams are based - to participate in this call for proposals. 

EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) have invited African organizations - legal entities that own open access (OA) journals that do not charge any fees for either authors or readers (often referred to as Diamond OA journals), and where editorial teams are based - to participate in the grant call, Strengthening no-fee open access publishing in Africa. 

The DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) project has published a report investigating the financial sustainability of institutional publishers and service providers. EIFL is a partner in the DIAMAS project, and Milica Ševkušić, Project Coordinator for the EIFL Open Access Programme, is one of the contributors to the report.

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will be among facilitators of the 5th OpenAIRE Open Science Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp, an intensive five-day online course for librarians, data stewards, research support staff and others who are currently providing open science training or who are planning to provide open science training for researchers, research support staff and/or students. 

Join us for the second online meet-up of open science trainers, where Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will present new resources on open science training for health sciences and on open science and AI. There will also be space to discuss your training related news and activities. 

EIFL is pleased to organize a webinar on Nigeria’s new Copyright Act, adopted in 2023, in cooperation with the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC).

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will present at the International Scientific Conference: Scientific and Publishing Integrity in Biomedicine, organized by the Macedonian Association of Medical Editors (MAME), Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA) and the Faculty of Medicine of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University (UKIM), in Skopje, North Macedonia. 

EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator Milica Ševkušić will be one of the speakers at the online training workshop ‘Digital Tools for the Epigraphist’, organized by the Prometheus – Promoting Universal Values through Digital Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage - project. The workshop is co-funded by the European Commission under the Creative Europe programme. 

Ševkušić’s presentation will focus on copyright and open licences.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, and the African Journals Online (AJOL) team will speak about diamond open access at this AJOL webinar.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will chair this webinar presenting and discussing the early findings of a study assessing the impact of Plan S. The webinar is organized by OASPA (the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association).

IT coordinators from 15 public libraries in Ghana will participate in a five-day training-of-trainers programme organized by the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) and the Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) as part of the ‘Digital Learning @ Ghana Public Libraries’ project.

Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager, will attend the SCILLS programme regional meeting of projects in Ghana and Senegal.

EIFL, Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) and TechSoup are partners in the Digital Learning @ Ghana Public Libraries project, and will share plans for monitoring and evaluation of the project with other SCILLS grantees Ghana and Senegal. 

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, reports on a recent conference hosted by COMMUNIA on two important issues that create obstacles to the creation of a flourishing information ecosystem: exposure to legal liability by cultural heritage institutions for use of copyrighted works and refusals by rightsholders to license digital content.

In a letter to Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa, EIFL has urged the President to sign into law the new Copyright Amendment Bill [B13F - 2017] without further delay. 

The Bill, amending the 1978 Copyright Act, was approved by both Houses of Parliament on 29th February 2024, and sent to the President for assent. The Bill introduces new exceptions for libraries, education and people with disabilities, and it brings copyright rules in South Africa into the digital age. 

Representatives of the government agencies responsible for education and roll-out of telecommunications infrastructure, library leaders and librarians, and school principals and teachers participated in the stakeholders’ forum held in Accra, Ghana, to formally launch the Digital Learning @ Ghana Public Libraries project.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open access Programme Manager, will be one of the speakers at this meeting to support information sharing and collaboration on open access and open science across Asian countries.

The meeting is organized by COAR (the Confederation of Open Access Repositories) and the All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society College of Engineering, in conjunction with UNESCO.