The following article was posted on behalf of University of Michigan Press. The 2023 Michigan Ebook Collection marks the third year of University of Michigan of Press’s renewed commitment to open access through its Fund to Mission program. This OA monograph model has allowed UMP to better align with our mission of sustainably distributing scholarship … Read More
LYRASIS is pleased to announce that the supporters of the LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) have achieved the 2022 funding goals! What is OACIP? OACIP [pronounced O-A-C-I-P] is a community-driven framework that enables collective stakeholders to evaluate and fund open access content initiatives in a strategic way. OACIP brings together investment opportunities in … Read More
In 2021, DOAB and OAPEN entered into a new partnership with LYRASIS to develop its services for U.S. partners. As the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) continues to grow, now including well over 50,000 open access books, Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist of Open Access and Scholarly Communication at LYRASIS, and Tom Mosterd, Community … Read More
LYRASIS has signed an Expression of Support for working with small independent publishers as recommended by the recent report, How to enable smaller independent publishers to participate in OA agreements. This report was released on behalf of cOAlition S and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers by Information Power, a consultancy service specializing … Read More