Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP)
Last fall, the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) announced another round of funding opportunities to support Diamond Open Access publishing by scholarly journals. Diamond open access refers to content published immediately open access with no fees for authors or readers.
This is a reminder that five journals participating in the current round of the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) still need more funding to meet their funding goals. OACIP provides a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Open Access journals.
Lyrasis invites libraries and library consortia of any size or type, academic departments, research centers, and funding agencies from anywhere in the world to join the growing OACIP Funding Community and pledge your support in OACIP today.
Information About Each Journal
American Indian Culture and Research Journal is among the premier peer-reviewed journals in Native American studies. It is published by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center (AISC) in the United States and will be published through a new partnership with eScholarship Publishing. Production costs an average of $60,000 per year, $30,000 of which the journal has secured from UCLA, their home institution. The journal is seeking $32,250/year for five years.
- Funds Already Committed: $26,500/year for five years
- Funds Still Needed: $5,750/year for five years
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society is a peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) in the United States. The journal is known as a venue for cultivating, evaluating, and sharing cutting-edge research in the social studies of science, technology, and medicine in transnational contexts. ESTS seeks support to enhance its infrastructural contributions to OA publishing and data sharing, and its abilities to editorially support its increasingly diverse community of authors, reviewers, and readers. Incoming contributions will be used to cover approximately half of the journal's annual operating costs and develop an operating reserve. The journal is seeking $40,000/year for five years.
- Funds Already Committed: $18,000/year for five years
- Funds Still Needed: $22,000/year for five years
International Journal of Strength and Conditioning is a leading peer-reviewed journal published by the International Universities Strength and Conditioning Association in the United Kingdom. The journal specializes in sport science, sport performance, as well as strength and conditioning. The journal is seeking $28,750/year for five years through OACIP, which is 55% of total operating costs. Member libraries of Jisc in the UK are also working to provide support for this journal through their Open Access Community Framework program in partnership with OACIP.
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- Funds Already Committed: $12,000/year for five years
- Funds Still Needed: $16,750/year for five years
Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Education and Liberal Arts Project (E.L.A. Project) in India. The journal aims to establish a dialogue with scholars worldwide about how language itself has necessitated the progression from a multidisciplinary approach to an interdisciplinary one. The journal is seeking $40,000/year for five years.
- Funds Already Committed: $12,000/year for five years
- Funds Still Needed: $28,000/year for five years
Liquid Blackness: Journal of Aesthetics and Black Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by Duke University Press on behalf of liquid blackness Limited in the United States. The journal develops innovative approaches to address points of convergence between the exigencies of Black life and the many ways in which blackness is encountered in contemporary sonic and visual culture. The journal is seeking $43,000/year for five years.
- Funds Already Committed: $34,500/year for five years
- Funds Still Needed: $8,500/year for five years
OACIP General Fund
If your organization would rather support OACIP in general rather than any specific journals, you are welcome to contribute to the OACIP General Fund. In this round, contributions collected in the OACIP General Fund will be used to fill any journals’ funding gaps at the end of the campaign.
Participation Deadline
The OACIP investment window for this round expires on December 15, 2023.
More information about the journals and how you can invest in them can be found on the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program webpage.