1. Community Led
OA Publishing
Programs in the
United States
Sharla Lair
Senior Strategist, Open Access & Scholarly
Communication Initiatives
Lyrasis
sharla.lair@lyrsis.org
2. Lever Press | leverpress.org
Collaborative open access book publisher run by a collective of libraries
• The publication of innovative, interdisciplinary peer reviewed
research
• Fully open access books with no mandatory author fees
• Rich media digital books with simultaneous print editions
• Teaching and learning resources as well as research
• The creation of cross-institutional library book publishing models
https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2986
3. Lever Press | leverpress.org
• Shared Governance
• Governing Board
• Editorial Board
• Email Discussion List
• Publishing workshops
• 2023 Prose Award Finalist
• La Princesse de Clèves
• New and forthcoming titles
https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2986
4. University of Michigan Press (UMP)
Fund to Mission | ebc.press.umich.edu
OA monograph model to transition UMP frontlist
• Aim: Publish at least 75% of the frontlist OA each year
• Supporting institutions receive perpetual access to paywalled frontlist
and term access to entire backlist
• Innovative digital scholarship hosted on open source platform
• UMP Library Partner Group
• Shared investment in strengthening humanities and social sciences
infrastructure, scholarship, and open learning resources
https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2708
5. The Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment
Program provides a community-driven framework that
enables multiple stakeholders to evaluate and
collectively fund Diamond Open Access journals.
Sustainable
Investments in OACIP support
costs of labor, infrastructure,
contingency, and innovation of
each journal
Principle-aligned
The OACIP Criteria Form
enables investors to make
principled spending decisions
and strategically fund programs
that align with their missions
Inclusive
Published by nonprofit
publishers (university presses,
library publishers, independent
publishers) to sustain
bibliodiversity, equity, and
inclusion of scholarship
Collaborative
OACIP enables an array of
communities to share the costs
of funding scholarship
Efficient
OACIP centralizes the
administration and funding of
individual journals or across
the entire OACIP portfolio
Sharla Lair | Lyrasis | sharla.lair@lyrasis.org OACIP Webpage: https://bit.ly/LYR_OACIP
6. Thank you to all OACIP Supporters!
Amherst College
Ashé Cultural Arts Center/Alliance for
Cultural Equity
Bates College
Big Ten Academic Alliance
Bowdoin College
California Digital Library
Carleton College
Colby Bowdoin Bates Consortium
Colby College
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas (CSIC)
Cornell University
Cornell University Department of Science
& Technology Studies
Davidson College
Dickinson College
Duke Cultural Anthropology Department
Duke University
Franklin and Marshall College
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gettysburg College
Hollins University
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Indiana University
Indiana University-Purdue University-
Indianapolis
Iowa State University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
KU Leuven
Lafayette College
Louisiana State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Michigan State University
Mount Holyoke College
Murray State University
New York University
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
Portland State University
Princeton University
Purdue University
Reed College
Rice University
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Smith College
South Dakota State University
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
Technische Informationsbibliothek
Temple University
University of Idaho
University at Buffalo
University of Arkansas
University of British Columbia
University of California - Berkeley
University of California - Davis
University of California - Irvine
University of California - Irvine School of
Social Sciences
University of California - Los Angeles
University of California - Merced
University of California - Riverside
University of California - San Diego
University of California - San Francisco
University of California - Santa Barbara
University of California - Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
University of Manchester
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Oklahoma
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rhode Island
University of Rochester
University of Saskatchewan
University of Sheffield
University of Tennessee Knoxville
University of Texas at Austin
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison
VIVA, Virginia’s Academic Library
Consortium
VU Amsterdam
Wayne State University
Wesleyan University
Western University
William & Mary
Yale University
7. First Campaign | 2020 - 2021
● 27 Institutions
○ 3 Countries
● Committed: $237,535 for five years
• Two Diamond OA Journals FULLY FUNDED!
○ Combinatorial Theory | eScholarship
○ Environmental Humanities | Duke
University Press
Second Campaign | 2021 - 2022
● 39 Institutions
○ 3 Countries
● Committed: $277,500 for five years
• Three Diamond OA Journals FULLY FUNDED!
○ Algebraic Combinatorics | Centre
Mersenne
○ History of Media Studies | Media Studies
Press
○ Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly
Communication | Iowa State Digital Press
Third Campaign | 2022 - 2023
• American Indian Culture and Research Journal |
eScholarship and UCLA American Indian Studies
Center
• Cultural Anthropology | Society for Cultural
Anthropology | FULLY FUNDED!
• Engaging Science, Technology, and Society |
Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
• International Journal of Strength and
Conditioning | International Universities Strength
and Conditioning Association
• Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary
Studies | Education and Liberal Arts Project
• Liquid Blackness | Duke University Press
Funding still needed!
Deadline: December 15, 2023
Contact: oacip@lyrasis.org
8. Thank you!
Sharla Lair
Senior Strategist, Open Access & Scholarly
Communication Initiatives | Lyrasis
sharla.lair@lyrsis.org