Catch up with EIFL! If you missed this week’s webinar on managing OJS #OpenAccess publishing software through containers, you can view the recording & slides – zurl.co/0kxB9#OpenAccess – with a walk-through of setup & security & practical rtips for everyday management.

Dot your i's & cross your t's, upload your applications & press submit! Just 10 days left - deadline 10 November - to apply for the EIFL Public Library Innovation Award for Public library STEAM activities - zurl.co/mQ3JD

🌟What's new on EIFL's YouTube channel - webinars for #OpenAccess journal publishers, repository managers & how to boost research visibility; training tips for public #librarians; stories about public library ICT training for schoolchildren, and much more. Browse and enjoy! zurl.co/C2jzG

📣 See the latest news from @EIFLnet our September-October newsletter - zurl.co/9UQx5 - and sign up here 👉 zurl.co/rs6xw to get @EIFLnet news delivered directly to your inbox!

It’s #GlobalMILWeek 24-31 October &@EIFLnet celebrating public #libraries in #Ghana empowering people with media & information literacy skills, helping them find reliable information, communicate safely & participate in the digital world -zurl.co/24Noo#GlobalMILWeek#libraries#Ghanahanalibraries

Make it open! Find out how to share and license your research software in these two @EIFL infographics explaining the main steps for making code discoverable and reusable. Download here zurl.co/g2hWx and here zurl.co/A1CPx And happy #OAweek2025!

New links, clarifications and improvements! Guidelines, policies and templates! We've revised and updated our guide to support publishers of Diamond #OpenAccess journals to enhance the quality of their journals. See what's in the revised guide and download here zurl.co/l9Ax8#OpenAccess#OAweek

What makes a great trainer? Watch @EIFL new Small Bites video on the three key roles of a good trainer — Instructor, Facilitator, and Coach: zurl.co/7YaGR And see more ‘Small Bites’ training videos here - zurl.co/r1fu0

EIFL partners in #Moldova, #Uganda and #Zimbabwe have plenty of information, educational and awareness-raising events planned for #OAweek - zurl.co/Qbroo. Check out what's happening at Busitema University in Uganda - zurl.co/Yw9xE

Happy #OAWeek 2025 - and good wishes for your OA campaigns, webinars, workshops, panels and other events. Here's what @EIFL & our partners are doing - happy for you to join where possible - zurl.co/L8dyB

It's ready, steady go for International #OpenAccessWeek2025 – starting Monday 20 Oct @EIFL & partners in 3 continents have organized exciting awareness raising campaigns, events, webinars & more to celebrate. Check them out – there may be events you can join: zurl.co/ILIH5#OpenAccessWeek2025 Enjoy the week!

Here you are – presentations from the @EIFL General Assembly 2025. Links in the document titled Programme - zurl.co/xujhG - and thanks again to our hosts, delegates, speakers and sponsors #EIFLGA25

Inspiring testimonies about how #digital learning workshops run by Volta Regional #Library in #Ghana is empowering school students. Watch & enjoy! zurl.co/7rws7 @eifl.bsky.social

Congratulations Mary Abukutsa, named 2025 #Africa Food Prize laureate for ground-breaking work in advancing African indigenous vegetables. Mary – a passionate champion of #OpenAccess – is a leading researcher from JKUAT. Read @EIFL case study zurl.co/13Tug & more about Mary zurl.co/CZkLN

👉 Wednesday 15 October 10:00 UTC - for a lively discussion on Diamond #OpenAccess join the next meeting of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee OA publishing in #Africa, that now includes over 380 members. More here and how to join - zurl.co/IhXMg

🌍 ALMASI launches the #DiamondOA Policy Forum! 📅 29 Oct 2025, 15:00–16:30 UTC Policymakers & funders from Africa, Europe & Latin America will: ✅ Share #OpenAccess successes ✅ Co-develop recommendations ✅ Discuss regional needs 🔗 almasiproject.org/the-diamond-...

Tell us your story! Enter the competition - @EIFL Public Library Innovation Award for public #library STEAM activities. Just 4 weeks to deadline - 10 Nov 2025 - and if your library is not applying, please share with others! zurl.co/G68ty

🌟We’ll share presentations from #EIFLGA25 #Armenia soon, from the @EIFL team and guest speakers – watch our website zurl.co/qlAqD#EIFLGA25#Armeniaor details or follow us on social media – Facebook, LinkedIn.

Thank you to all the #EIFLGA25 delegates for your generosity in sharing experiences and knowledge, and your courage in addressing challenges.

The @EIFL General Assembly #EIFLGA25 ended with a cultural tour that included visits to two of #Armenia's most treasured historical sites - the ancient monastery of Geghard and the Greco-Roman Temple of Garni.

Featuring Diamond #OpenAccess publishing @EIFL General Assembly. On the panel, sharing experiences, from left, Iryna Kuchma (EIFL), Tatjana Timotijevic (Serbia), Sagar Raj Subedi (Nepal), Paul Samwel Muneja (Tanzania). Good to your hear your strategies for fostering Diamond OA - #EIFLGA25

Knowledge-sharing in full swing on Day 2 at #EIFLGA25. Delegates from @EIFL partner library consortia from Africa (Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe) share achievements, progress & ideas.

Winner! Tolgonai Kozhokanova, @EIFL Licensing Coordinator #Kyrgyzstan accepts #EIFLGA25 award for best usage of EIFL-licensed e-resources by scholars at member institutions of an EIFL partner library consortium. Award sponsored by Eclat Engineering. More about our work in Kyrgyzstan zurl.co/Zzw3T

Networking speed dating at #EIFLGA25 brings publishers and @EIFL country representatives together to explore new opportunities and collaborations.

@T_Hackett @EIFLnet presents new EIFL resources on powerful tools to boost #OA - #rights retention and #secondary publication rights #EIFLGA25 - EIFL's Guide for Libraries zurl.co/t8IFN & EIFL's position explained zurl.co/CPJ22 & the EIFL's Draft Law on Copyright zurl.co/88MOP#OA#rights#secondary#EIFLGA25#EIFLGA25

Success factors! Jeroen Bosman, Utrecht University Library 🇳🇱 shared success factors in open science & research assessment reform @UniversiteitUtrecht at #EIFLGA25. ‘People are key’ says ‪@jeroenbosman.bsky.social‬ - so involve people from the community to faculty and university leadership.

Guest speaker #EIFLGA25 Anne-Catherine Fritzinger, Deputy general director @sorbonne_univ, Paris, in charge of public engagement & knowledge dissemination, discussed SU's strong open science policy & pragmatic approach to developing openness, that includes training & an Open Science MOOC.

Spotlight #EIFLGA25 - #OpenAccess & open science journals, repositories & policies - Rafayel Barkhudaryan, Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs, Yerevan State University, spoke about the university's journals platform - zurl.co/7bdaq

At the #EIFLGA25 @T_Hackett highlights @EIFL #copyright resources #webinars, new edition of @EIFL draft law on #copyright zurl.co/mMMOu

We're in #Yerevan #Armenia and excited to welcome the @EIFL international family to the EIFL 2025 General Assembly, that starts tomorrow in the National Library of Armenia. Stay tuned via #EIFLGA25. Busy days ahead - see the programme - zurl.co/259hg

🌏 Safe travels to all delegates, partners & speakers coming to the @EIFLnet General Assembly in #Yerevan, #Armenia, starting Tuesday, 30 September. Looking forward to welcoming you and seeing you again! #EIFLGA25 zurl.co/G0DsI

New @EIFLnet guide - ‘How to check whether your organization has a ROR ID and get one if it doesn’t’ – to boost visibility & discoverability of research organizations, research output and researchers - zurl.co/aEkPN

Learn about #AI tools to support scholarly journal editors at the meeting 17 Sept 10:00 UTC of the Community of Practice (CoP) for no-fee #openaccess publishing in #Africa. Join the CoP register for the meeting – zurl.co/DH9gq @wacren.bsky.social @ajol.info

Stop by our booth at @osfair.bsky.social and meet our service managers who will be ready to answer your questions & talk about how their services can support you. OpenAIRE Membership: 15/09 12:00-2:00 Researcher Profile: 15/09 2:00-3:00 #OpenAIRE MONITOR: 15/09 4:45-5:45 #OSFair2025 #CERN

Results to celebrate! 15 Ghana public libraries & 30 library staff equip 16,500 school students with digital & digital literacy skills through EIFL-GhLA project. We've been sharing results with stakeholders in Ghana. More about the project zurl.co/lxHjo

🇬🇭 Great to meet with Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) to discuss initiatives to equip #ghana #libraries with ICT and internet. Photo - EIFL's Ramune Petuchovaite & representatives of GIFEC & Ghana Library Authority. Thank you for productive discussions! #digitalera

🇬🇭 In #Ghana this week! Ramune Petuchovaite, EIFL-PLIP Manager, met with the new leadership of the Ghana Library Authority (GhLA), and the GhLA project team to discuss results of the Digital Learning @ Ghana Libraries project. Thanks to our partners for their generous hospitality! 🙏

There’s still time to register for tomorrow's EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, where we will discuss training related news and activities. Date and time: 11 September, 9:00 UTC. To register, click the link - zurl.co/9kf8f #openaccess

Show us what you can do! Apply for the EIFL Public Library Innovation Award for #library STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Maths) activities. Deadline - 10 November - just 9 weeks away - zurl.co/EYuPP

On #InternationalLiteracyDay, @EIFLnet celebrates all the #libraries helping people develop essential #literacyskills in the #digitalera. With new skills people can navigate information online with confidence, communicate safely, and participate fully in society.

2025 @EIFLnet General Assembly takes place in Yerevan #Armenia 🇦🇲, 30 Sept– 2 Oct. Excited to welcome library consortium coordinators & publisher partners from all over the world. Thank-you to partners in Armenia for helping organize the event 👏 zurl.co/m9nEK

We’ve updated the popular EIFL Digital Research Literacy Training Programme Outline for #Librarians, with resources to help academic librarians facilitate digital literacy #training for researchers & students. Happy training - zurl.co/UMrx2#Librarians#training#OpenAccess

EIFL agreements with publishers for waived / discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) are continuing to increase #OpenAccess content published in EIFL partner countries. The numbers tell the story – check them out - zurl.co/Yf2xL

📣Award call! 👉 The 19th EIFL Public #Library Innovation Award is for public community #library STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) activities. Submissions deadline 10 Nov 2025! All the details - zurl.co/x1J6A

📣 Read now! The latest news from EIFL, including an award call for innovative public #libraries, 3 new agreements with publishers and the positive impact of our open science training and open access publishing agreements – bit.ly/45VV8mu#libraries#openaccess

New services & resources for Diamond #OpenAccess publishers and service, tool & technology providers, with EIFLnet contributions - www.eifl.net/news/whats-n... @eudch.bsky.social

Welcome news from #Uganda - the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology has adopted a strong forward-looking open science policy. Well done to the policy development team! www.eifl.net/news/uncst-a...

Read all about EIFL achievements in our 2024 Annual Report – and thank you to everyone who has contributed to and supported our work - www.eifl.net/news/2024-ei...

Welcome to EIFL on Bluesky! We’re delighted to launch our Bluesky account, where we’ll be posting our latest news, training and other events, and useful resources. We look forward to engaging with you on Bluesky! 😊