KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

EIFL works in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America

E-LIBRARIES FOR MYANMAR

Connecting university students with research online

The right to read

Advocating for people with print disabilities

Power of open access

Helping doctors to access health research in Kenya 

Public Library Innovation

Changing lives of children in Kibera

EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) works with libraries to enable access to knowledge for education, learning, research and sustainable community development. Our vision is a world in which all people have the knowledge they need to achieve their full potential.

News

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08 Jun 2023
COAR (the Confederation of Open Access Repositories) is calling for your feedback on draft recommendations for depositing, managing, and curating multilingual and non-English (...)
Library storage of printed versions of newspapers.
19 May 2023
EIFL and the international library, archives and museum communities have called on WIPO to finalize the new Toolkit on Preservation (document SCCR/43/4) without making any further (...)
15 May 2023
We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2022 Annual Report, in which we share our achievements and tell the stories of people who have benefited from our work.  We (...)
05 May 2023
EIFL has renewed the agreement with JSTOR that provides access to more than 67,000 high-quality backlist titles from over 100 publishers.  The agreement is valid until 30 June (...)

Events

12 Jun 2023
Online
Join this EOSC Future webinar to learn more about the procedures for onboarding (...)
12 Jun 2023 - 15 Jun 2023
Somerset West, South Africa
EIFL will participate in the 18th International Open Repositories Conference ( (...)
27 Jun 2023
Online
The Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities was adopted by WIPO (...)
03 Sep 2023 - 08 Sep 2023
Bremen, Cologne, Frankfurt, Germany
Five public librarians, from Ghana, Kenya, Namibia and Uganda, will travel to (...)

SPOTLIGHT

21 more journals added to upgraded Ethiopian open access journals platform

ANNUAL REPORT

In our 2022 Annual Report we share achievements and tell the stories of some of the people who have benefited from our work. And we include a special feature highlighting EIFL’s contribution to implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - the first-ever international standard for open science.

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