2013
Became the North America facilitator for Knowledge Unlatched, enabling libraries to crowdfund open access scholarship across a range of disciplines and publishers.
2014
Became the US national facilitator for the SCOAP3, a global non-APC open access program funding journal article and book publishing in high energy physics.
- 200+ US libraries enabled OA publication of 50,000 articles across 11 leading journals.
2015
Became the North America facilitator for Open Library of Humanities (OLH), a diamond open access (OA), nonprofit, scholar-led publisher and platform for the humanities.
- 28 diamond OA journals published with the support of 80 libraries in the US and Canada.
2016
Established the Lyrasis ORCID group as a Lyrasis member consortium and community of practice for non-profit ORCID member organizations (Open Researcher & Contributor ID).
2018
Established the ORCID US Community in partnership with the BTAA, NERL and GWLA consortia, providing a national community of practice for ORCID adoption and integration.
- 200+ organizations nationwide have become members of the ORCID US Community.
2019
Partnered with Annual Reviews to launch a Subscribe to Open program, which publishes its frontlist journal issues fully OA if member support is sufficient to cover publishing costs.
- Entire collection has flipped to open with the support of 22 Lyrasis members and many other libraries worldwide.
2020
Launched Opening the Future program to crowdfund publication of Central European University Press books on an open access basis.
2020
Partnered with JISC to form the Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS-US) community, enabling participating organizations to gather open, COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for materials in repositories.
- Over 6 million item requests are reported annually.
2020
Partnered with Duke University Press to convert the journal Demography, by the Population Association of America, to a fully open access Subscribe to Open title.
- Fully open access with the support of 70 participating members.
2020
Launched the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Fund to support OA ebook publishing focusing on calls to action in environmental and humanitarian content.
2021
Established the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) to evaluate and collectively fund independent, nonprofit, scholar-led diamond OA journals.
- 6 OA journals fully funded for five years.
2021
Established the DataCite US Consortium, a national community of practice for non-profit organizations assigning DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) to their data and research outputs.
- Supported by 24 organizations, creating 5,879 DOIs for their repositories.
2021
Began offering the University of Michigan Press Fund to Mission Open Access Monographs. Around 75% of frontlist monographs are published OA with sufficient support.
- Supported by over 40 libraries worldwide.
2021
Began partnership with the Directory of Open Access Books and OAPEN for a collective membership model supporting the transition to open access for scholarly literature.
2021
Debuted the Liverpool University Press Opening the Future sustainable OA publishing model where subscriptions giving participating organizations access to select ebook backlist titles fund OA ebook publishing.
2021
Began offering the Punctum Books Supporting Library Membership Program, a collective membership model supporting the operations of a non-BPC open access independent press.
2021
Partnered with CERN in creating SCOAP3 for Books, a global OA program, funding ebooks in physics supported by libraries, governments, and research organizations.
- 100 titles published OA by the end of 2023 with the support of 69 institutions.
2022
Partnered with Lever Press for a collective membership model supporting OA publication of peer-reviewed, born digital, open access monographs at no cost to their authors.
- Supported by over 40 participating institutions.
2022
Partnered with MIT Press to offer MIT Press Direct to Open, a conditional non-BPC OA model where frontlist monographs are published OA with sufficient support.
2022
Supported the University of Toronto Press Subscribe to Open initiative for the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy.
2023
Partnered with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a community driven index of peer-reviewed OA journals from around the world and freely available online.
2023
Supported Bloomsbury Open Collections, a collective-action program to publish OA books in the field of African Studies and International Development.
2023–2024
Launch of six major open access read-and-publish (transformative) agreements, with up to 1550 articles published annually from 200+ Lyrasis institutional members.
- 2023 – Partnered with Institute of Physics (IOP) to launch a read-and-publish agreement offering unlimited OA publishing with full access to the IOP complete journal package.
- 2023 – Partnered with The Royal Society to launch a read-and-publish agreement offering unlimited OA publishing with full access to the Royal Society’s complete journal package.
- 2023 – Partnered with Cambridge University Press to launch a read-and-publish agreement offering unlimited OA publishing with full access to Cambridge’s complete journal package.
- 2023 – Launched ACM Open, a read-and-publish agreement offering unlimited OA publishing with full access to the Association for Computing Machinery’s Digital Library.
- 2024 – Launched a Springer read-and-publish agreement with all publication fees covered for OA publishing in Springer hybrid journals by corresponding authors at participating institutions.
- 2024 – Partnered with the Royal Society of Chemistry to launch a read-and-publish agreement offering unlimited OA publishing and full access to the RSC Gold journal package.
2024
Partnered with Open Syllabus, a nonprofit research organization, to provide subscriptions to their Analytics platform while also supporting their work in syllabus archiving.