2019 Annual Report, EIFL

"2019 saw the continuation of a global shift in negotiations with journal publishers. Starting from 2019, all EIFL’s negotiations included not only free or discounted subscriptions to paywalled journals, but also discounts and waivers of Article Processing Charges (APCs), which are the fees authors pay to make their articles available in open access. As a result, authors from EIFL partner countries can now publish their articles in open access for free or at greatly reduced APCs in over 700 open access journals from four publishers. We expect these numbers to grow.

We are excited about a new project which started in October in Myanmar to establish a national open access repository that will collect, disseminate and preserve all research output from universities. The Myanmar Education, Research and Learning (MERAL) Portal project, in collaboration with the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, the Rectors’ Committee, and the National Institute of Informatics of Japan, builds on EIFL’s significant support for open access in Myanmar since 2015...."