Open Access Community Investment Program
The Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) provides a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders — including academic and public libraries, academic departments, institutions, research centers, museums and funding agencies — to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Open Access (OA) journals.
Funded OACIP Journals
Since Lyrasis launched OACIP in 2020, 26 diamond open access journals have participated in the program. For the first several years, OACIP operated on a five-year commitment funding structure. With the 2023-2024 cohort of journals, the program transitioned to a three-year commitment structure, informed by feedback from the funding community.
The 2025-2026 cohort includes two renewing journals from the founding cohort. Lyrasis is committed to giving journals the option to renew their participation in OACIP moving forward, as the program is intended to ensure long-term sustainability for diamond open access journals that often lack other means of offsetting operational costs.
2025-2026 Cohort
- Biogeography – a scholar-led, diamond open access journal transforming how biogeographical research is shared, fostering equity, inclusion and innovation.
- Combinatorial Theory – a renewing, community-owned, barrier-free journal shaping the field of combinatorics through equitable, high-quality and sustainable publishing.
- Environmental Humanities – a renewing, diamond open access journal bridging humanities and sciences to advance global conversations on climate, culture and sustainability.
- Latinx Talk – a community-governed, diamond open access journal amplifying voices and innovative scholarship in Latinx Studies through multimedia and bilingual publication.
- Limn – a scholar-led, experimental platform merging anthropology, art and public-facing scholarship to explore collaborative inquiry and innovative modes of publishing.
- Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science – pioneering sustainable, no-fee open access publishing for innovative research across psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and decision sciences.
- Precision Nanomedicine – advancing ethical, globally accessible and rigorously reviewed research in nanomedicine through a diamond open access model.
- Semantics and Pragmatics – a society-led, diamond open access journal fostering high-quality, inclusive research in linguistics, philosophy and psycholinguistics.
- Weave: Journal of Library User Experience – supporting equitable, open scholarship and community engagement in library UX research and practice.
2024-2025 Cohort
- Cambridge Journal of Human Behaviour – the student-run, interdisciplinary, international journal publishing exclusively the work of undergraduates researching human behaviour. (Fully funded for 2024-2026 term)
- Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique – the only bilingual (English and French), diamond open access, non-profit, peer-reviewed bioethics journal in Canada. (Still in need of funding for 2024-2026 term)
- Financial Services Review – as the official publication of the Academy of Financial Services (AFS), encourages open access research that examines the impact of financial issues on individuals. (Still in need of funding for 2024-2026 term)
- Foucault Studies – a diamond open access journal with a 20-year publication history and the only international journal in the English language devoted to the work and influence of Michel Foucault. (Still in need of funding for 2024-2026 term)
- Global Social Challenges Journal – aims to address urgent global social issues aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by facilitating thinking about positive new societal trajectories within an inter- and trans-disciplinary open access forum. (Still in need of funding for 2024-2026 term)
- HKS Misinformation Review – new format of peer-reviewed, scholarly publication in which content is produced and "fast-reviewed" by misinformation scientists and scholars, released under open access licensing, and geared towards emphasizing real-world implications. (Still in need of funding for 2024-2026 term)
- Observational Studies – advances open access scholarship on all aspects of observational studies, including study protocols, methodologies, descriptions of data sets, software and analyses. (Still in need of funding for 2024-2026 term)
- Trans Asia Photography – the first and only open access international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary exploration of historic and contemporary photography from Asia and across the Asian diaspora. (Still in need of funding for 2024-2026 term)
2022-2023 Cohort
- American Indian Culture and Research Journal – a diamond open access journal featuring quality research by, for, and with American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and other Indigenous Peoples and their various communities, whether they are nations, tribes, townships, villages or islands. (Fully funded for 2023-2027 term)
- Cultural Anthropology – a society journal committed to publishing ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. (Fully funded for 2023-2027 term)
- Engaging Science, Technology, and Society – a diamond open access venue for cultivating, evaluating and sharing cutting-edge research in the social studies of science, technology and medicine in transnational contexts. (Still in need of funding for 2023-2027 term)
- International Journal of Strength and Conditioning – a leading diamond open access journal published by the International Universities Strength and Conditioning Association (IUSCA), specializing in sport science, sport performance, and strength and conditioning. (Still in need of funding for 2023-2027 term)
- Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies – a diamond open access journal committed to engaging with authors and readers, so as to go beyond the traditional multidisciplinary borders of research to carve a place for interdisciplinarity. (Still in need of funding for 2023-2027 term)
- Liquid Blackness: Journal of Aesthetics and Black Studies – seeking to carve out a place for aesthetic theory and the most radical agenda of Black studies to come together in productive ways, this diamond open access journal has the goal of attending to the aesthetic work of blackness and the political work of form. (Fully funded for the 2023-2027 term)
2021-2022 Cohort
- Algebraic Combinatorics – a specialty journal dedicated to the free dissemination of research in the burgeoning field of algebraic combinatorics, spanning across and intricately linking several areas of mathematical research. (Fully funded for 2022-2026 term)
- History of Media Studies – a new, peer-reviewed, scholar-run, diamond open access journal founded to augment understanding of the ways that media have been conceived, investigated and studied around the world. (Fully funded for 2022-2026 term)
- Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication – a diamond open access journal particularly interested in the intersection of librarianship and publishing and the resulting role of libraries in both content dissemination and content creation. (Fully funded for 2022-2026 term)
2020-2021 Cohort
- Combinatorial Theory – a community-owned, barrier-free journal shaping the field of combinatorics through equitable, high-quality and sustainable publishing. (Fully funded for 2021-2025 term)
- Environmental Humanities – a diamond open access journal bridging humanities and sciences to advance global conversations on climate, culture and sustainability. (Fully funded for 2021-2025 term)
Previous Cohorts
Several journals from past cohorts are still in need of funding to meet their annual funding goals. Interested in supporting one or more of these journals? Reach out to us at oacip@lyrasis.org for more information.
Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique – the only bilingual (English and French), diamond open access, non-profit, peer-reviewed bioethics journal in Canada.
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society – a diamond open access venue for cultivating, evaluating and sharing cutting-edge research in the social studies of science, technology and medicine in transnational contexts.
Financial Services Review – as the official publication of the Academy of Financial Services (AFS), encourages open access research that examines the impact of financial issues on individuals.
Foucault Studies – a diamond open access journal with a 20-year publication history and the only international journal in the English language devoted to the work and influence of Michel Foucault.
Global Social Challenges Journal – aims to address urgent global social issues aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by facilitating thinking about positive new societal trajectories within an inter- and trans-disciplinary open access forum.
HKS Misinformation Review – new format of peer-reviewed, scholarly publication in which content is produced and "fast-reviewed" by misinformation scientists and scholars, released under open access licensing, and geared towards emphasizing real-world implications.
International Journal of Strength and Conditioning – a leading diamond open access journal published by the International Universities Strength and Conditioning Association (IUSCA), specializing in sport science, sport performance, and strength and conditioning.
Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies – a diamond open access journal committed to engaging with authors and readers, so as to go beyond the traditional multidisciplinary borders of research to carve a place for interdisciplinarity.
Observational Studies – advances open access scholarship on all aspects of observational studies, including study protocols, methodologies, descriptions of data sets, software and analyses.
Trans Asia Photography – the first and only open access international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary exploration of historic and contemporary photography from Asia and across the Asian diaspora.
2025-2026 OACIP Supporters
The success of OACIP is made possible by the funding community that forms around it. We sincerely thank our supporters:
- Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Falvey Library, Villanova University
- Iowa State University Library
- Lydia M. Olson Library, Northern Michigan University
- MIT Libraries
- New York University
- San Jose State University Library
- Tilburg University - University Library
- University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of English