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EIFL welcomes plans for a European Research Area Act #ERAAct #FifthFreedom that aims to strengthen Europe’s research infrastructures & address barriers to free movement of researchers, scientific knowledge & innovation. Read the blog by @EIFL Teresa Hackett & Iryna Kuchma – zurl.co/ojfr0

📣 Awards, resources, an update on #ERAAct #FifthFreedom #OpenScience that will transform research in Europe, agreements to benefit many thousands of scholars – all this & more in the @EIFL newsletter – zurl.co/7C8wo Like what you see? Sign up for future newsletters zurl.co/UNKGf

🎉 Celebrations! Photos from a ceremony held by eThekwini Municipality Libraries in 🇿🇦 to honour Woodhurst Public Library for winning an @EIFLnet innovation award for its programme of fun maths, digital skills & coding activities for students - zurl.co/Rdkat

😳 Apologies to everyone who tried unsuccessfully to download the updated @EIFL Checklist: Good practices in using OJS software for journal editing and publishing (Version 4). We have fixed the error👏 and you can download the Checklist here - zurl.co/ln3Bn

👉 We've updated the EIFL checklist of good practices in using free & open source software Open Journal Systems (OJS). Checklist Version 4 includes an overview of 2025 release of OJS 3 (OJS 3.5.0-3), latest plugins & a lot more. Details & download zurl.co/rZWgH #OpenAccess @pkp.sfu.ca

See @EIFL news - zurl.co/fhAmq - for a policy brief for supporting no-fee OA publishing in #Africa & some real-life examples of journal funding used by institutions, #OpenAccess journals @ OA journal platforms. 🙏 to all co-authors @ajol.info @wacren.bsky.social @wellcometrust@bsky.social

Catch up! If you missed @EIFLnet webinar on why it's important to provide detailed metadata when registering DOIs you can view the webinar recording and see the slides here - zurl.co/54VaI #Research, #OpenAccess #Scholar #AcademicChatter #Science

🌟Celebrations in Colombia. Members of the Biblioteca EPM celebrate winning @EIFLnet Public #Library Innovation Award for library STEAM programmes. The library's STEAM service & robotics clubs are inspiring educators & future engineers. More here - zurl.co/X3y1z. 🙏 for sending us the photos!

👏 Results of EIFL project to strengthen the Journal of Student Affairs in #Africa, a Diamond #OpenAccess journal & leading platform for student affairs in African higher #education. 🙏to JSAA for a really interesting report - zurl.co/6MvMW @wacren.bsky.social @ajol.info @wellcometrust.bsky.social

More good news for scholars in @eifl countries! We've renewed our agreement with OUP for free & discounted access to journals & online products & waived APCs when publishing in fully #OpenAccess journals - for details zurl.co/cFbGx @academic.oup.com @OxfordJournals

🎓🖊️Great news! Authors from @EIFL partner countries can publish research in #OpenAccess for free or at discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) in 3,027 journals – 100 more than last year! See where you can publish – zurl.co/JDOpK

Reminder! Sign up for this @EIFL webinar 11 Feb 9:00 UTC for #librarians, #OpenAccess journal editors & publishers on why it's important to provide detailed metadata when registering DOIs for research - zurl.co/Vnl0L

Nakaseke Public Library 🇺🇬 has introduced coding lessons for children in partnership with Be Well Child Initiative #Uganda. Inspired by a study visit to Romania through EIFL IYALI programme, children are now learning Scratch and programming robots. #ICT4D #DigitalTransformation

New resources to advance #DiamondOA in Africa, Europe, and Latin America!

✅Scoping Report on Non-for-profit Publishing Ecosystems
✅Landscape Report on Diamond OA Publishing
✅Advocacy Materials: talking points, videoclips and organisation guide for online events.

Find resources: u2l.fr/9qt8bo

🎓Good news for scholars in @EIFLnet countries! We've renewed our agreement with @tandfonline, offering discounted access to T&F journals in 11 countries & waived/discounted APCs for authors to publish in T&F #OpenAccess journals in 32 countries. Details - zurl.co/l4lGb @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Congratulations to the four public libraries in China, Colombia, Croatia and South Africa that have just been announced as the winners of the EIFL Public Library #InnovationAward for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) learning activities in libraries! zurl.co/AViFJ

👉Discuss promotion strategies for Diamond #OpenAccess journals at tomorrow's meeting of the CoP for no-fee OA publishing in #Africa: 21 Jan 2026, 10:00 UTC/11:00 WAT/12:00 CAT/13:00 EAT. For details - zurl.co/UqJzs @AJOLinfo @wacren.bluesky.social

Calling all open science trainers! Join the first @EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers for 2026, which will discuss a checklist for organizing a successful hybrid event.
* Date and time: 20 January, 9:00 UTC
* Registration: zurl.co/mDhbN
#OpenAccess

Funders: want to strengthen Diamond OA? Go beyond short-term projects. The DIAMAS Recommendations highlight how you can lead systemic change with coordinated, long-term support. Here’s what to do. 👇

👏 We've expanded our agreement with IOP (the Institute of Physics) to include free or discounted read access to the IOPscience Extra journals package plus waived or discounted APCs when publishing in #OpenAccess in IOP hybrid journals. More here zurl.co/c4ewf @ioppublishing.bsky.social

Learn more about ROR & why ROR IDs matter for recognition & attribution of research in this webinar - zurl.co/lr7bu. Presenter Milica Ševkušić also walks you through the @EIFL Guide: ‘How to check whether your organization has a ROR ID and get one if it doesn't’ - zurl.co/SDZc9.

The Drain of Scientific Publishing The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

‪"Platforms such as SciELO, Redalyc, Latindex or AJOL offer quality, community-governed alternatives ... Yet, these regional models remain undervalued in evaluation systems shaped by Northern priorities, perpetuating global inequities in defining research quality."

arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

🌟 Great news for researchers in 34 EIFL partner countries. We've renewed our agreement with World Scientific, providing waived or discounted APCs for authors to publish in 145 fully (gold) or hybrid #OpenAccess journals. See which @EIFL countries benefit - zurl.co/Lrc8g @worldscientific.bsky.social

📣The latest news from @EIFL! Grants announced; what’s happening at WIPO; useful resources for #libraries, scholars & #OpenAccess journal editors & publishers. All this & more in the EIFL newsletter. Enjoy! zurl.co/BLHtk To get news from EIFL delivered to your inbox, sign up here - zurl.co/hJdta

🎓👏📣 Good news! We've renewed our agreement with Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org Terms include free and discounted access to journals and publishing in #OpenAccess in CUP journals for scholars in 34 countries – for details zurl.co/elamt

Exciting developments at 2 SA🇿🇦 journals that have completed projects funded by EIFL aiming to strengthen no-fee #OpenAccess publishing in #Africa. See what's happening at South African Journal of Science and Image & Text – zurl.co/VRjQr @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ajol.info @wacren.bsky.social

Check out our series of 10 webinars on best practices in using OJS free & open-source software for #OpenAccess scholarly journals, with ideas, suggestions & tips plus examples from 7 countries. Make OJS work for you! zurl.co/Hew6r Thanks to presenters for sharing expertise & experiences.

EIFL’s Teresa Hackett is back from Geneva where she joined advocates at WIPO promoting #copyright law reform & the adoption of modern copyright laws that maximize access to knowledge, and also attended the launch of the new Centre on Knowledge Governance. Read Teresa’s blog -
zurl.co/86UWn

Catch up with EIFL! If you missed our webinar on best practices in using OJS for #OpenAccess publishing, with national (PUB IN) and institutional (UMinho) examples from #Portugal, you can see the webinar recording & slides here – zurl.co/mPltd Enjoy! @pkp.sfu.ca

We've awarded grants to 16 projects in 9 countries to strengthen the quality & sustainability of no-fee (Diamond) #OpenAccess journals & journal hosting platforms in #Africa. Meet the grantees - zurl.co/ros6h @EIFL #AJOL #WACREN @Wellcome Trust.