About: eIFL-OA Program: Promoting and Advocating for Open Access in Developing and Transition Countries
eIFL-OA Program seeks to enhance access to, and greater use of research findings, increase the efficiency of research and developments, accelerate use and innovation, stimulate economy. To achieve this, we apply the developing practices of Open Access as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ ).
eIFL-OA Program
· builds networks of Open Access repositories, Open Access journals, Open Access education materials;
· provides training and advice on Open Access policies and practices;
· empowers library professionals, scientists and scholars, educators and students to become open access advocates.
eIFL.net has launched a portal for institutional repositories from developing and transition countries: http://eifl.cq2.org. It gives every visitor free access to hundred thousands full-text research findings in a consistent and harmonised way.