Oxford University Press (OUP) and Lyrasis have entered into a groundbreaking open access agreement intended to accelerate momentum toward global open access scholarship.
This groundbreaking three-year agreement enables all corresponding authors affiliated with participating academic institutions to publish open access (OA) in more than 500 OUP scholarly journals, both fully OA and hybrid, with no open access fees and no limits on the number of OA articles able to be published. The agreement delivers reading access to the Oxford Full Journals Collection of 350-plus subscription-based titles, which span the humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, mathematics, physical and life sciences, and other subjects. Authors who publish OA under this agreement may select from several available Creative Commons license choices.
Thirty-five institutions representing more than 235,000 students and thousands of faculty and staff are participating in this agreement, with further growth expected. Participants range from research institutions to regional universities to liberal arts colleges, signaling the broad benefits of these deals. Participants’ researchers publish an annual average of 98 articles with OUP.
Exclusive discounts are available for institutions that are part of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) community and are Lyrasis members. These institutions may be able to join this agreement for a deeply discounted fee. Discounts are also offered to small institutions. OUP and Lyrasis are committed to expanding access to OA publishing and scholarly content for underresourced institutions that are historically underrepresented in scholarly publishing.
Celeste Feather, Senior Director of Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives at Lyrasis, said, “The mission of Lyrasis is to catalyze and enable equitable access to the world’s knowledge and cultural heritage. A strengthened collaboration with Oxford University Press advances this mission by empowering our members and their constituents, expanding access to paywalled scholarship, and creating sustainable opportunities for researchers to publish open access.”
Alison Denby, Vice President of Journals at Oxford University Press, said, “We are delighted to coordinate with Lyrasis to facilitate open access publishing for a wide range of institutions and provide access to vital high-quality research across a broad array of discipline areas. This agreement helps support OUP’s mission to ensure that high-quality research is as widely circulated as possible in order to support education, research and scholarship.”
Christopher Hollister, Head of Scholarly Communication with the University at Buffalo (UB), said, “We’ve been exploring read-and-publish spaces for some time now, with modest success. However, this new Lyrasis-negotiated agreement with Oxford has generated a new kind of enthusiasm among faculty across our schools and departments, confirming for them that the UB Libraries are a critical partner in the rapidly shifting landscape of scholarly publishing.”
This open access agreement joins other Lyrasis agreements with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Cambridge University Press, Elsevier (limited to current participants), IOP Publishing, The Royal Society of Chemistry, The Royal Society and Springer Nature, along with a host of OA programs that use business models with no costs to authors and readers.
For questions about this agreement, please contact michael.rodriguez@lyrasis.org.
About Lyrasis
Lyrasis is a community-supported membership organization whose mission is to support enduring access to the world’s shared academic, scientific and cultural heritage through leadership in open technologies, content services, digital solutions and collaboration with archives, libraries, museums and knowledge communities worldwide.