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

CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2026– Source: EP
7 hours 9 mins ago
In an open letter to the European Parliament, EIFL joins over 35 organizations calling on the European Parliament to reject the introduction of actor-specific licences for access (...)
29 Jun 2026
Reports from projects aiming to strengthen the quality and sustainability of African no-fee open access (OA) publishing are continuing to come in, and we take pleasure in sharing (...)
26 Jun 2026
EIFL’s comments to the European Commission's Call for Evidence supporting a review of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive focus on two specific areas: (...)
18 Jun 2026
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 (...)

Events

07 Jul 2026
Online
Public librarians in Africa are invited to an online capacity-building event (...)
08 Jul 2026
Online
Join this EIFL webinar to discuss strategies and tools to motivate your journal (...)
10 Jul 2026
Online
EIFL will host a working session on Financial sustainability planning for eight (...)
15 Jul 2026
Online
Join the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, where Jonathan England, (...)

SPOTLIGHT

EIFL updates lists of journals in which corresponding authors from EIFL partner countries can publish in open access

ANNUAL REPORT

In our 2025 Annual Report we share achievements and tell the stories of some of the people who have benefited from our work.

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