At the SOCRS’s meeting on Wednesday 10th November 2021, Theron Westervelt, the chair of the Committee, announced that the committee’s action plan for the next year has been submitted to the IFLA. In this meeting committee members scheduled the program for the next IFLA WLIC. Two important topics were suggested… Read More
SOCRS will have a Zoom meeting to discuss how to proceed with actions items and the topic for Open Programme in Dublin. Read More
IFLA WLIC 2021 online session sponsored by the IT Section is about OER and library IT, don't miss it! Read More
The Serials & Other Continuing Resources Committee (SOCRS) is pleased to invite the IFLA community to our programme during IFLA WLIC 2021: How Open Access Affects Serials Assessment Read More
The Zimbabwe Library Association and IFLA have prepared a joint submission for the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review of the country. Drawing on the experiences of the library field, the submission flags important trends and ways in which libraries work to support the fundamental rights to education, work, and access to science in Zimbabwe, and sets out recommendations on how more could be done. Read More
The pandemic has underlined the importance of access to information for all, but at the same time, the risks of misinformation. Libraries have a huge potential to contribute, as highlighted in a webinar organised by participants in the IFLA-Goethe Institut Emerging International Voices Programme. Read More
Returning for a second year, IFLA and Goethe-Institut present the second #EmergingInternationalVoices webinar, this time organised by the young librarians who participated in our successful series from last year! This year we will be discussing: Open Access, Infodemics and Libraries, exploring the global equity of science. Read More
Open access and open science more broadly have great potential to accelerate the research necessary to deliver on the SDGs, as well as to place high quality information into the hands of citizens, helping them take better decisions. Yet openness alone does not guarantee equity in access to… Read More
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, publishers, funders, research institutions, libraries, and other members of the scholarly community have evolved. This has resulted in a progressive shift to… Read More
In January 2021, IFLA’s Section on Academic and Research Libraries, together with IFLA Headquarters, organised a series of three webinars with experts from cOAlition S. These focused on learning more about the Rights Retention Strategy, a key part of wider efforts to promote open access, in this… Read More