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EIFL in Congo

EIFL has been working in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2015. We supported the creation of the Consortium des Bibliothèques Académiques du Congo (COBAC) and are working with publishers to help provide libraries in the DRC with access to a wide range of scholarly e-resources. EIFL agreements with publishers also allow authors in the DRC to publish in open access in hybrid or fully open access journals at waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs).

With EIFL support, Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs in Goma (ULPGL-Goma), adopted the first institutional open science policy in the country - Charte de l’ULPGL pour la science ouverte - in August 2022, and created an institutional open access repository. EIFL has been working in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2015.

Library Consortium Information

Consortium:

Consortium des Bibliothèques Académiques du Congo (COBAC)

Type of members:

University libraries and research libraries

Members:

EIFL-Licensed resources:

View the complete list of e-resources, technology products and Article Processing Charges that have been negotiated for members of COBAC. See the full list of all the journals that EIFL has negotiated terms for open access publishing for researchers in Congo. For more information please contact the Licensing Coordinator in Congo.

MEET OUR COORDINATORS

Jean Baptiste Unen

Licensing Coordinator

Eliezer Mwongane

Country Coordinator

EIFL IN ACTION

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Open Science in the Democratic Republic of Congo

EIFL contributes to open science and ope (...)

Open Access Programme

Open Climate Campaign

EIFL, Creative Commons and SPARC partner (...)

Open Access Programme

NEWS

EIFL renews agreement with Wolters Kluwer

EIFL has renewed an agreement with Wolters Kluwer, for a further year (...)

EIFL renews agreement with Brill

EIFL has renewed an agreement with Brill, for a further three years (...)

EIFL renews agreement with The Company of Biologists

EIFL has signed an agreement with The Company of Biologists to (...)

BLOG

Falling short: the status of RROs in Africa

A new report (2022) examining the status of reproduction rights (...)

Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, gives an overview (...)

EIFL celebrates Fair Use/Fair Dealing week

EIFL is participating in Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual (...)

EVENTS

Engaging meaningfully in WIPO: IFLA webinar

EIFL will present at an IFLA webinar for librarians in Sub-Saharan (...)

Open science policies in Francophone Africa

Join this EIFL and LIBSENSE webinar (in French) with Cécile Coulibaly (...)

Consortium des Bibliotheques Academiques du Congo

EIFL, together with the Consortium des Bibliotheques Academiques du (...)