Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP)

Last fall, the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) announced a third 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.

OACIP is a Lyrasis-led, community-driven initiative that enables libraries and other funders to strategically evaluate and collectively fund diamond OA journals, which do not charge fees to authors or readers. Six peer-reviewed journals are seeking support through OACIP:

The investment window is open through July 31, 2023.

Funding Update for Current OACIP Participating Journals 

The following journals are seeking investments through OACIP. Thank you to all of the organizations that have participated thus far. Each journal still needs more support. You can learn about each journal below. 

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: $13,000/year for five years
  •   Funds Still Needed: $19,250/year for five years

Cultural Anthropology is the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), based in the United States. The journal publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. SCA funds nearly half of the journal’s budget. The journal is seeking $56,025/year for five years.   

  •  Funds Already Committed: $41,900/year for five years
  •  Funds Still Needed: $14,125/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: $5,500/year for five years
  • Funds Still Needed: $34,500/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 trying to fund the remaining amount through Jisc's Open Access Community Framework. 

  • Funds Already Committed: $7,000/year for five years
  • Funds Still Needed: $21,750/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: $7,000/year for five years
  • Funds Still Needed: $33,000/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: $16,000/year for five years
  • Funds Still Needed: $27,000/year for five years

 

More information about the journals and how your organization can invest in them can be found on the Open Access Community Investment Program webpage. The investment window is open through July 31, 2023. For other Lyrasis Open Access offers, read more here.

About OACIP

The Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) is a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders — including libraries of all types, academic departments and funding agencies — to strategically evaluate and collectively fund diamond open access journals, which are journals that do not charge a fee to authors or readers. OACIP doesn’t just bring together investment opportunities in one place, it also provides important and consistent information about those opportunities to support informed and principled investment decisions. Participating publishers respond to criteria-based questions about their journal, and the responses are posted on the OACIP website. Using this approach, OACIP provides tailored matchmaking between nonprofit scholarly publishers that are seeking financial investments from organizations that want to support OA publishing that aligns with their mission and values.