28 Jan 2016
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
Open access – the immediate, online, free and unrestricted availability of research results – is a powerful solution to the barriers that researchers in developing and transition economy countries face in accessing and sharing critical research that can improve people’s lives.
In collaboration with (...)
07 Dec 2015
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
Over 50 research funders and representatives of research organizations from 15 countries attended workshops in Budapest, Hungary, to revisit the Horizon 2020 open access (OA) mandate, to examine OA policy developments in Europe, and to share examples of best practice in OA policy development and (...)
23 Jul 2015
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
Zambia Library Consortium (ZALICO) has launched a national open access (OA) advocacy project that aims to transform Zambia’s research landscape.
The project is supported by EIFL, and aims to encourage OA uptake through advocacy, OA policy formulation, and to increase OA publishing in order to (...)
22 Apr 2015
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
Open Government Partnership Initiative (OGP) provides an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. OGP has 65 participating countries, which include among others the following EIFL partner countries: (...)
09 Mar 2015
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
EIFL has released a new video that shows the impact of an EIFL Open Access Programme (EIFL-OA) supported project that succeeded in opening up critical research from Kenyan researchers to the world.
The video features students, librarians, faculty and research administrator (DVC) from the University (...)
18 Dec 2014
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”
With this quote from Robin Morgan – an American poet and political theorist and activist – Roshan Karn, Director of Open Access Nepal, opened the (...)
10 Dec 2014
Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
“We have challenges, a lot of challenges in Kenya,” says Dr. Bessie Mukami, a general physician who serves at Embu General Provincial Hospital, a relatively large teaching hospital on the outskirts of the town of Embu in eastern Kenya.
“You have, maybe, one doctor to 10,000 people.”
A newly trained (...)