ELibUkr

ELibUkr was established in September 2008 through the efforts of Tetiana Yaroshenko, director of Kyiv-Mohyla Library, and Marta Farion, President of Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America, with an initial grant from USAID, and collaboration with Northwestern University, with the assistance of David Bishop, former Northwestern Librarian, and Michael Radnor of Northwestern University.  It was an effort to bring access to global digitized knowledge and information to Ukraine’s universities through a central portal and management at NaUKMA.

The three first universities that formed the ELibUkr Consortium were National University “Kyiv-Mohyla-Academy”, National Karazin University of Kharkiv, and National Fedkovych Chernivetski University.  By 2020, ELibUkr has expanded to serve 36 universities, in a collaborative consortium that includes sharing of resources, seminars, training sessions, and conferences. 

The project’s official opening took place on January 26, 2009, with the participation of US Ambassador William Taylor, Ambassador William Green Miller, the director of USAID in Ukraine, founding president Vyacheslav Bryukhuvetsky, members of Ukraine’s Parliament, the Deputy Minister of Ukraine, rectors of participating universities, and members of the business community, civil society, and press.

The ELibUkr project expanded access to the world’s licensed databases including EBSCO, Gale, Oxford UP, ProQuest Dissertation, Lexis-Nexis, Emerald, Eastview, Business Insights, and many others.  ELibUkr is a success story of Ukraine and has received several grants and donations from donors and sponsors in Ukraine and North America.  

ELibUkr joined the project “Ukrainian Quality Assurance E-Service for Education” in an effort to reform the university system through honesty in research and education.