(9 June 2016) China’s first ‘Fair Use Week’ took place in Beijing City on 19-20 May 2016 with the theme ‘Copyright issues in information services’. The event was co-organized by the Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LCAS), EIFL’s partner, and is one of four library-organized events in China in 2016. Fair use is…
(1 June 2016) Ten librarians from EIFL’s partner universities in the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project will travel to Hong Kong on a five-day study tour organized by EIFL in partnership with the University of Hong Kong Library. From 13 to 17 June 2016, the librarians will visit University of Hong Kong Library and Lingnan University Library. The…
(30 March 2016) “Today, with the unprecedented access to diverse research materials online, we are witnessing encouraging progress in the academic efforts of Myanmar researchers and students,” says Professor Dr Thida Win, Rector of the University of Mandalay. The University of Mandalay has taken ownership and control of their research publications, is designing an open…
(18 March 2016) EIFL has invited guest blogger Dr Ku Liping, of the National Science Library, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, to share highlights from the growing open access and open data movement in China. He covers open access policies and their impact, data librarianship, awareness raising and advocacy backed up with impressive numbers.…
(10 February 2016) EIFL, in association with the University of Mandalay and the University of Yangon, will run a series of seminars and meetings to finalize institutional open access policies and launch open access repositories. The seminars and meetings will take place between 2 – 9 March, and are part of the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar…
(25 November 2015) Mr Jonathan Band J.D was a guest speaker at an EIFL webinar on 24 November 2015 on the Google Books decision, what it is and why it is important for libraries. The presentation examined the background to the Google Books case that began over a decade ago in 2004, as well as the…
(8 October 2105) To fulfill the promise of the right to read for blind, visually impaired and other print disabled people, EIFL is supporting ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty in partner countries, and its implementation into national copyright law. In a project supported by the EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme, the Mongolian Libraries Consortium (MLC)…
(21 September 2015) On 3-4 September 2015, EIFL co-organized the first seminar in Nepal dedicated to library copyright issues, in cooperation with the Nepal Library and Information Consortium (NeLIC). The sub-regional seminar provided an introduction to copyright and the copyright system, as well as library provisions in the copyright law of Nepal and other countries.…
(23 July 2015) For over a year now, 166,000 students and 4,000 academic staff at seven universities in Myanmar have had round-the-clock access to more than 10,000 scholarly journals and 130,000 academic books. An e-library project led by the international NGO Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) is providing instant access to resources across all disciplines…
(29 May 2015) EIFL has a new seven-month project ‘Open Access: Greater Reach for Research’ with Open Access Nepal – a student led initiative – that will advocate for open access in major universities and colleges in five regions of Nepal. In a few weeks universities will be opened again in Nepal (they have been…
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