Content tagged Open access

Supported by the international scholarly community and global coalitions of stakeholders, the push toward Open Access has gained momentum in the past few years as the relationships among authors,...

Event - 16 February 2021

Tags: Collection development, Library collections, Open access, Programme, Acquisition and Collection Development

Faced with global challenges, the need to promote cooperation and collaboration amongst those looking for solutions is vital. Open science promotes just this. With UNESCO preparing a draft...

News - 22 January 2021

Tags: Access to information, Open access, Open science, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

IFLA has submitted its response to a call for comments on UNESCO’s draft Recommendation on Open Science. The Recommendation is due to be agreed later this year. Our comments focus on...

Publication - 22 January 2021

Tags: Access to knowledge, Open access, Open science, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

The International Science Council (ISC) is working together with science funders to bring together insights and ideas from the scientific community to support the achievement of the Sustainable...

News - 6 October 2020

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Capacity building, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Open access, Open science, Policy, Sustainability

The recording for the session is now available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/mG2fhsJZbzs. Increasingly, the governments and private organizations which fund research are mandating...

Event - 3 September 2020

Tags: Open access, Scholarly communications, Webinar, Serials and Other Continuing Resources

IFLA has provided input to a UNESCO consultation on Open Science, highlighting the need to ensure that Open Science brings benefits to all, and helps deliver solutions to key global challenges...

Publication - 18 June 2020

Tags: Access to information, Open access, Open science, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section and Metropolitan Libraries Section invites interested professionals from any library to submit a short (10 minutes or less) video or multimedia work for...

News - 3 February 2020

Tags: Access to information, Accessibility, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Communications, Cultural heritage, Digital libraries, Education, Electronic resources, Freedom of information, Information technology, International cooperation, Library outreach, Library services, Open access, Metropolitan Libraries

Update: IFLA 2020 has been cancelled: https://2020.ifla.org/.   The Social Sciences Libraries Section and the Science & Technology Section are co-hosting a...

News - 24 January 2020

Tags: Open access, Social Science Libraries

The Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section (SOCRS) invites colleagues to submit proposals for its two-hour open session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC...

News - 23 January 2020

Tags: Open access, Serials

On 23 November 2019, UNESCO adopted a recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER). This marks the culmination of a long effort to which IFLA has contributed from the perspective of...

News - 12 December 2019

Tags: Copyright, Education, Licensing, Open access, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

Recorded at the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, from Wednesday, October 9, at 10:00 CET, until Friday, October 11, 2019, at noon CET. More at https://ilds2019....

Publication - 12 November 2019

Tags: Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Benchmarking, Best practices, Big data, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Czechia, Data management, Digital divide, Document delivery, eBooks, Electronic document delivery, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Networking, Open access, Research support, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing, Videos

Published on behalf of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section’s Standing Committee, this freely-accessible eBook is a testimonial reflecting the state-of-the-art in the...

Publication - 4 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, Benchmarking, Best practices, Big data, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Digital divide, Document delivery, eBooks, Electronic document delivery, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Intellectual property, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Library collections, Open access, Publications, Research support, Scholarly communications, Statistics and evaluation, User experience, Conference proceedings, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

The IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section (DDRS) proudly announces release of the 16th IFLA ILDS (Interlending and Document Supply) Conference Proceedings.  ...

News - 4 November 2019

Tags: Czechia, Document delivery, eBooks, Interlibrary loans, Open access, Publications, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

​ The Sixth tri-annual International Conference on Digital Landscape (ICDL) will take place at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, India. According to its website,...

Event - 12 September 2019

Tags: Conference, Development, Digital divide, Digital inclusion, Digital preservation, India, Open access

The General Directorate for Libraries of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is organising its XVII International Conference on University Libraries around the general theme...

Event - 24 April 2019

Tags: Conference, Copyright, data protection, Mexico, Open access, Open education, Open science

​ Intergovernmental Organisations both shape the policies and priorities of governments, and inform the international debate. By going making their publications freely – and...

News - 4 April 2019

Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Open access, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

IFLA has agreed a statement calling on Intergovernmental Organisations (IGOs) to make their research and data available to the public for free, and without unnecessary limitations on use....

Publication - 4 April 2019

Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Open access, Statements

​To celebrate Open Education Week 2019, IFLA releases a brief on open educational resources (OER). It underlines the role that librarians can play in creating, curating and ensuring access to...

News - 4 March 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, E-learning, Education, Open access, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

“Big Data can reshape the world and save lives. By analyzing it, we can find answers to challenges such as climate change and global epidemics. Economies can be stimulated....

Publication - 12 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, data mining, Open access, text and data mining, Text mining, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements

OpenCon annual conferences seek to bring together a diverse, representative, and highly engaged group of participants in the field of open access, open data and open education. The Conference can...

Event - 2 November 2018

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Conference, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Open access, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

It’s Open Access Week! This year’s topic is “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge”. It raises questions such as “How do we ensure sustainability...

News - 22 October 2018

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Copyright, Open access, Open source, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage will take place on October 27, and has the theme “Your Story is Moving”.   Here is what UNESCO says about the theme...

News - 2 October 2018

Tags: Access to knowledge, Archives, Associations, Cultural heritage, Digital humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Education, Open access, Preservation, Resource discovery, Society

At the 2018 World Library and Information Congress in Kuala Lumpur, SOCRS held an open program on scholarly communication. The program featured papers from across Asia and Africa.  The main...

News - 4 September 2018

Tags: Africa, Asia and Oceania, Bibliometrics, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, eBooks, Electronic resources, Open access, Professional development, Scholarly communications, Serials and Other Continuing Resources

UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation – has become an important player in the field of open educational resources. At its 39th General Conference in...

Publication - 4 June 2018

Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Education, Open access, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Publications

UNESCO is preparing a Draft Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER), as the next step forwards in its work in the area. Given the strong role of libraries in many countries in promoting...

News - 4 June 2018

Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Education, Open access, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

2018 IFLA World Library and Information Congress Open Session 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 24 - 30 August 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Call for Papers: The Document...

News - 22 December 2017

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Communications, Digital resources, Document delivery, Electronic document delivery, eLending, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Open access

Our participation to Mozfest was a blast. We met new people and learned a lot from them. Read about the experience and learn the new web literacy tools Mozilla made available to all. One...

News - 16 November 2017

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Cooperation, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Internet access, Knowledge society, Open access, Open source, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

NUEVA YORK, 17 de julio de 2017 — La Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Bibliotecarios y Bibliotecas (IFLA), en colaboración con el Grupo de Tecnología...

News - 14 August 2017

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, DA2I, Development, IAP, Libraries for development, Open access, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, United States of America, Press Release

Art Libraries Section Off-site session - 22.08.2017, 14:00 – 17:00 Chair: Sandra Ludig Brooke, Princeton University, United States Location: Museum of Architecture in Wrocław...

News - 11 August 2017

Tags: architecture, Art history, Open access, Art Libraries

NEW YORK, 17 July 2017 — The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), in partnership with the Technology and Social Change Group at the University of...

News - 17 July 2017

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, DA2I, Development, IAP, Libraries for development, Open access, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, United States of America, Press Release

‘The world must think hard about how information is shared, in order to promote inclusive access, facilitate collaboration, and ensure real world impact’. On Friday 14...

News - 16 July 2017

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, DA2I, Development, HLPF, IAP, Libraries for development, Open access, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, United States of America

Satellite conference of the IFLA Section on Serials and Other Continuing Resources, co-sponsored by the IFLA Section on Acquisition and Collection Development and the European Solidarity Center (...

Event - 14 July 2017

Tags: Open access, Poland, Satellite Meeting, Serials, Serials and Other Continuing Resources

IFLA Statement on Government Provision of Public Legal Information in the Digital Age (2016), translated into German. Prepared by IFLA’s Law Library Section and adopted by the IFLA Governing...

News - 12 July 2017

Tags: Access to information, Digital preservation, Law, Open access, Preservation, Statements, Law Libraries

L’atelier pour les professionnels de la documentation juridique d’Afrique francophone (conservateurs, bibliothécaires, documentalistes, archivistes) a été organis...

News - 29 June 2017

Tags: Access to information, Côte d'Ivoire, Open access, Law Libraries

L’atelier pour les professionnels de la documentation juridique d’Afrique francophone (conservateurs, bibliothécaires, documentalistes, archivistes) a été organis...

Publication - 27 June 2017

Tags: Access to information, Côte d'Ivoire, Legal Information, Open access, Publications, Law Libraries

The workshop on free access to legal information was opened on 29 May 2017 by the Secretary General of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire, Mr. Latte Ahouanzi. Organized jointly by...

News - 2 June 2017

Tags: Access to information, Côte d'Ivoire, Legal Information, Open access, Law Libraries

On December 6 & 7, 2016, IFLA’s Law Library Section in cooperation with the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) and William S. Hein & Co., organized a workshop on Open...

Publication - 27 March 2017

Tags: Africa, Open access, Publications, Law Libraries

Five years ago IFLA released its current Statement on Open Access. With the importance of access to knowledge acknowledged by the Sustainable Developemnt Goals, its recommendations are as strong...

News - 25 October 2016

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Open access, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

A workshop for law librarians in Anglophone Africa organized by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Law Libraries Section, in cooperation with the International Association...

Event - 10 October 2016

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Open access, Uganda, Workshop, Law Libraries

Libraries today urged all players to work together and apply their efforts to build an open science system. In a statement responding to the conclusions of the EU Competitiveness Council,...

News - 9 June 2016

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Knowledge society, Open access, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The University of Queensland (UQ), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Griffith University welcomed today’s announcement that Brisbane will host the international Open Repositories...

News - 16 May 2016

Tags: Australia, Conference, Open access, Asia and Oceania

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – Singapore (SG) – 17 June 2015 IFLA and Brill are pleased to announce that the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), from the...

News - 17 June 2015

Tags: Awards, Brill, Open access, WLIC2015, Press Release

by Dr. Anup Kumar Das, Documentation Officer, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India In March 2015 UNESCO, in collaboration with the...

News - 24 April 2015

Tags: Curriculum, Open access, Open access, UNESCO, Asia and Oceania

IFLA and Brill are pleased to announce the 2015 IFLA/Brill Open Access award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access award is created to reward initiatives that facilitate and/or promote Open...

News - 14 April 2015

Tags: Announcement, Awards, Brill, Open access, WLIC2015

Slides from Hot Topics sessions, IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2014, Lyon, France. Radical collaboration - libraries working together in new ways James G Neal...

Informational Page - 23 October 2014

Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Conferences, Hot Topics, Open access, radical change

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 23 June 2014 IFLA and Brill are pleased to announce that Knowledge Unlatched, from the United Kingdom, has been selected as this year’s...

News - 23 June 2014

Tags: Awards, Brill, Open access, WLIC2014, Press Release

العربية IFLA and Brill are pleased to announce the 2014 IFLA/Brill Open Access award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access award is created to reward initiatives that facilitate and...

News - 17 April 2014

Tags: Announcement, Awards, Brill, Open access, WLIC2014

Clarifying IFLA's position and strategy IFLA is committed to the principles of freedom of access to information and the belief that universal and equitable access to information is...

Publication - 1 February 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Open access, Statements

Please browse the "Open Access converging on Collection Development" Call for papers on the 2014 WLIC conference website here, and share widely with your colleagues!

News - 10 December 2013

Tags: Acquisitions, Collection development, Digital resources, France, Open access, Acquisition and Collection Development

[DOC] | [PDF]       Open Book Publishers wins the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 31 May 2013...

News - 31 May 2013

Tags: Awards, Brill, Open access, WLIC2013, Press Release

The social sciences have made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the economic, political and social life of nations in the past century. Social science libraries now have an...

Publication - 3 May 2013

Tags: Access to information, Cuba, Open access, Publications, Social Science Libraries

Just off the press as Nr 158 in the IFLA Publications Series…fully bilingual English/Español title! Read all about it: Open Access and Digital Libraries / Acceso...

News - 3 May 2013

Tags: Access to information, Open access

العربية Brill and IFLA are pleased to announce the new Brill/IFLA Open Access award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access award is created to reward initiatives that facilitate and...

News - 15 April 2013

Tags: Announcement, Awards, Brill, Open access, WLIC2013

On Thursday 17th May 2012 IFLA, along with its organising partners Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Scholarly Publishing and...

News - 22 May 2012

Tags: Access to information, Open access, Switzerland, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)

Session 116 — Science and Technology Libraries 14 August 2012 09:30 - 11:30 | Room: 5bc | SI Data curation, access, and preservation are integral to the advancement of research in...

News - 6 April 2012

Tags: Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Information professionals, Open access, Science and Technology Libraries

français Following the endorsement of IFLA's Statement on Open Access by the Governing Board, April 18th 2011—and the subsequent approval from the Governing Board during the WLIC in...

News - 11 October 2011

Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Open access

      Berlin/The Hague, 9 August 2011— In a common effort to promote the work of IFLA, De Gruyter Saur is making sixteen IFLA Publications available...

News - 9 August 2011

Tags: Announcement, De Gruyter Saur, Open access, Publications

Just off the press as Nr 153 in the IFLA Publications Series Read all about it: Open Access to STM Information Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries 

News - 22 July 2011

Tags: Copyright, Open access

This book contains a plethora of different viewpoints and research results from all over the world, bringing them together to provide a global perspective on the various issues that comprise...

Publication - 22 July 2011

Tags: Copyright, Open access, Publications

The Main Library of The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, in association with IFLA Africa Section, is sponsoring an IFLA satellite meeting which will be held in Barbados at the...

Event - 24 June 2011

Tags: Advocacy, Barbados, Copyright, Open access, Satellite Meeting, Africa

Clarifying IFLA's position and strategy IFLA is committed to the principles of freedom of access to information and the belief that universal and equitable access to information is...

News - 15 April 2011

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Announcement, Open access

News - 4 April 2011

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Announcement, Copyright, Netherlands, Open access

News - 11 February 2011

Tags: Access to knowledge, Announcement, Copyright, Open access

Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge: Action for Europe Date 14 - 15 April 2011 Location Koninklijke Bibliotheek National Library of...

IFLA Group or Activity - 26 January 2011

Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Netherlands, Open access

The session on agricultural libraries was held on August 12, 2010 on the theme "Current trends in agricultural information services for farmers." Evincing great interest on the theme,...

News - 30 December 2010

Tags: Open access, Agricultural Libraries

Conference Session 96 Law Libraries, Government Libraries and Government Information and Official Publications 12 August 2010 13:45 - 15:45 Creating an international legal...

News - 4 August 2010

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Copyright, Democracy, Document delivery, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Information policies, Intellectual property, Open access, Policy, Law Libraries

français Copyright for Creativity launch video    "In many countries, copyright law, through exceptions and limitations, has long supported the essential...

News - 6 May 2010

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Announcement, Copyright, Europe, Exceptions and limitations, Open access, Preservation

Open Access has a profound effect on the role of academic libraries. Focus is shifted from being a gatekeeper for information created elsewhere towards being actively involved in supporting the...

Event - 12 April 2010

Tags: Open access, Satellite Meeting, Sweden, Science and Technology Libraries

The IT Section is pleased to announce the latest issue of the Newsletter - December 2009. The latest issue of the IFLA ITS Newsletter features the following articles: IT Section...

News - 22 December 2009

Tags: Information technology, Intellectual property, Internet access, Knowledge management, Open access, Open source, Preservation, Information Technology

Following an earlier call for papers, the National Libraries Section and the Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters have agreed to collaborate on the theme National libraries promoting open...

News - 18 December 2009

Tags: Open access, National Libraries

World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly 10-15 August 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden Theme: Opening Doors to Spectacular Collections: Access to Multi-sensory,...

News - 2 December 2009

Tags: Acquisitions, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Call for Papers, Collection development, Electronic collections, Electronic resources, Gothenburg, Library collections, Open access, Sweden, Acquisition and Collection Development

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in collaboration with IFLA Newspaper Section is organizing the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 at IGNCA, New Delhi in India....

Event - 16 November 2009

Tags: Conference, Digital preservation, India, Open access, News Media