Lyrasis has been proud to serve as an Organizational Home for community supported, open-source technologies for more than 10 years. With this rich and extensive experience comes the opportunity for reflection and improvement. In 2024, we developed a coordinated and deliberate approach to strengthen and grow the Organizational Home service, enhance its impact and foster … Read More
It’s been six years, and the ORCID US Community is still steadily growing, with plenty of exciting updates and important information from across the community below. Past newsletters can be found in the ORCID US Community Blog. To contribute to future newsletters, please email orcidus@lyrasis.org. Thank you! Community Snapshot Member institutions = 203 (as of … Read More
The Palace Project, an audio and ebook app for libraries, moves to nonprofit Lyrasis. JUNE 24, 2025 — The Palace Project — a mobile app and digital platform that provides ebooks and audiobooks to more than 700 libraries — is changing ownership. Co-created by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Lyrasis in 2020, … Read More
Lyrasis, a nonprofit member organization serving the global landscape of academic and public libraries, scholarly research, archives, museums and galleries, is pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of the Lyrasis Catalyst Fund. The Lyrasis Catalyst Fund is an award program that provides support for new ideas and innovative projects from the Lyrasis membership. Through the … Read More
Launched in January 2021, as a consortium for any non-profit in the US looking to get started with DataCite DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers), the Lyrasis DataCite US Community is dedicated to supporting open research infrastructure and best practices for making research and scholarly materials more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Community Snapshot Participating … Read More
Why Lyrasis Membership Matters At Lyrasis, we believe in the boundless power of knowledge and the strength of a shared journey. Ad astra — to the stars — is more than a Latin phrase or a Star Trek reference. It is our commitment. In every challenge, every moment of uncertainty, and every shifting landscape, we … Read More
On May 14, 2025, organizers from Lyrasis, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), GO FAIR US, and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), hosted the first call for initial stakeholders interested in participating in the US RAiD Pilot, funded by a grant from the National … Read More
Our May Instructor Spotlight is S. Michele Echols. Michele will be teaching the webinar, Charting Your Career Path: Building a Personalized Professional Development Plan, on Tuesday, May 20, from 2 – 3:30 p.m. S. Michele Echols, MLS, MS, is a thought-leader librarian with experience working in public, academic and school libraries. Echols owns the … Read More
We are excited to announce that a new offer is now available for Pluto Journals via Lyrasis! Beginning in 2025, Lyrasis has partnered with Pluto Journals to provide supporter membership subscriptions to Pluto Journals catalogue of peer-reviewed, Diamond open access (OA) social science journals. The Diamond OA status of these journals means that there is never … Read More
Lyrasis is deeply concerned about the Trump administration’s recent executive order, Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, which calls for the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The order directs the acting IMLS director to take immediate steps to eliminate the agency to the maximum extent allowable by law by … Read More