Lyrasis today announced the 2025–2026 cohort of journals in its Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP). This year’s selection spans a broad range of disciplines and highlights the continued growth and impact of Diamond Open Access publishing, which removes financial barriers for both authors and readers.
About OACIP
Launched in 2020 to support stand-alone Diamond Open Access journals, OACIP brings together libraries, consortia, foundations, academic institutions, and research centers to fund journals that operate without subscription fees or author charges. Since its launch, the program has grown to support 26 journals. OACIP supports journals guided by their scholarly communities, advancing equitable access, transparency, and innovation in publishing. By fostering long-term sustainability, OACIP strengthens journals’ ability to mentor contributors, share research globally, and uphold the principle that scholarly knowledge is a public good.
2025-2026 OACIP Journals
The following nine journals will participate in the 2025-2026 funding cycle:
- 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.
Why This Cohort Matters
The 2025–2026 OACIP cohort illustrates the breadth and ingenuity of community-driven scholarly publishing. Two journals, Combinatorial Theory and Environmental Humanities, are renewing participants—the first journal renewals in OACIP history—demonstrating the program’s commitment to long-term, sustainable funding.
Rob Dilworth, Journals Director at Duke University Press, shared: “OACIP's funding and partnership have provided key journals — Environmental Humanities, liquid blackness and Trans Asia Photography — with the sustainable economic models they need to thrive, ensuring that their scholarship remains freely accessible to the global community. OACIP is a cornerstone of our commitment to open access. We're grateful for its instrumental support.”
Innovative partnerships with university presses are helping journals transition to diamond open access models. Biogeography, supported by Stanford University Press in collaboration with the Public Knowledge Project, launched in response to a mass resignation from a major journal, offering a globally accessible venue for ecology and evolution research. Open Mind, published by MIT Press, became the first journal supported by the Harvard Open Journals Program through a partnership with MIT and Harvard Libraries. As part of OACIP, it is now expanding a global funding community to sustain its long-term mission of accessible, high-quality cognitive science publishing, enabling early-career and interdisciplinary researchers to share their work freely.
Several journals are pushing the boundaries of publishing and scholarly communication in distinctive ways. Limn, independently published, experiments with collaborative, public-facing scholarship, bringing together anthropology, science studies, and the arts to create a space where essays, interviews, and visual work engage audiences beyond traditional academia. Latinx Talk, an independent, scholar-governed collective hosted by The Ohio State University Libraries, amplifies bilingual and multimedia scholarship, mentors contributors across career stages, and produces teaching resources used widely in classrooms and communities.
Other journals focus on advancing rigorous, ethically guided research in their fields. Precision Nanomedicine, independently published, makes high-quality research in nanoscience openly accessible, including replication studies and negative results that might otherwise remain unpublished. Semantics and Pragmatics, a society-led journal published by the Linguistic Society of America, supports high-quality, peer-reviewed research in semantics, pragmatics, and related disciplines, emphasizing global participation and inclusive editorial practices.
Finally, Weave, published by Michigan Publishing, cultivates the field of library user experience, combining research, case studies, and critical analysis to improve services and design. Through participatory peer review, professional development, and community-building initiatives, it strengthens both scholarship and practice in library UX.
Across disciplines, regions, and publishing models, these journals demonstrate how thoughtful, community-centered approaches can advance scholarship, mentor contributors, and broaden public engagement. Over the 2025–2026 cycle, OACIP will share stories, profiles, and highlights to showcase how these journals innovate and impact their fields and communities.
For renewing journal Combinatorial Theory, Editorial Board Member Victor Reiner described OACIP as "crucial" to the success of this leading mathematics journal: “[Combinatorial Theory] was founded in 2020, when almost the entire editorial board of Elsevier's Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A resigned to form Combinatorial Theory as a new Diamond OA journal. A great concern at the time was whether the modest costs of running the journal could be supported by the community – Lyrasis has shown us that it can. This frees the journal's board to focus on what is important: providing free and open access for authors and readers worldwide to the top results in our field. The journal is proud to have as board members a 2025 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lauren Williams, and two winners of the Fields Medal (sometimes known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics"), June Huh and Timothy Gowers. Thank you Lyrasis for helping us achieve our dream!"
How to participate in OACIP
Any organization in the world — libraries of any type and size, library consortia, academic departments, research centers, museums, funding agencies — can support OACIP. Visit the OACIP website for an overview of the three-step process to get started.