Our May Instructor Spotlight is Amy Tureen. Amy will be teaching Reparations-Informed Purchasing on Tuesday, May 14 from 2 – 3 p.m. EST. Amy Tureen is the Dean of Academic Success Programs at South Puget Sound Community College. Her research focuses on multiple intersections of leadership, DEI, and both organizational and individual wellness. She is the … Read More
On November 9, 2021, the ORCID US Community consortium hosted a Community Call presentation on the importance of ORCID and how ORCID intersects with the priorities and activities of funders. Belinda Orland, Senior Manager for Research Operations with the American Heart Association (AHA) and Kristen Mueller, former Scientific Program Director with the Melanoma Research Alliance … Read More
Better together: BTAA Libraries, CDL and Lyrasis commit to strengthen Diamond Open Access in the United States April 18, 2024 – Representatives from the Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries (BTAA Libraries), California Digital Library (CDL) and Lyrasis attended the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Toluca, Mexico in October 2023. The Summit convened the … Read More
The 2025 Lyrasis Board of Trustees Election will be held Monday, April 22, through Friday, May 3. During this time, Lyrasis Members Voting Representatives will receive a ballot and vote for new board members to serve a 3-year term. In the spirit of fostering collaboration and ensuring that all voices within our community are heard, … Read More
Fedora 6.0 was released in July 2021 and marked the largest major release of the open-source repository software since Fedora 4 in 2018. With Fedora 6.0 out the door, the Program Team, in collaboration with Fedora Governance, began strategic planning to establish priorities for Fedora’s future. One of the outputs of the planning phase was … Read More
Agreement with Lyrasis and Springer Nature covers 120 institutions including Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Lyrasis and Springer Nature have reached a new Read-and-Publish (R&P) Agreement, also known as a Transformative Agreement (TA). The four-year deal covers some 120 institutions and includes eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and eight other federally designated minority … Read More
The Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) is excited to announce a new round of funding opportunities to support Diamond Open Access journals. What is OACIP? The Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) enables multiple stakeholders to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Open Access (OA) journals. Diamond OA means the journal is published … Read More
In February 2024, ORCID announced the third round of Global Participation Fund recipients, including a proposal submitted by Lyrasis for improvements to ORCID functionality in DSpace. ORCID’s relatively new Global Participation Fund program, launched in 2022 as part of ORCID’s Global Participation Program, is designed to support equity of access to ORCID, improving the visibility of … Read More
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Lyrasis have entered into an open access publishing agreement to accelerate momentum toward global open access scholarship. This partnership is one of the first and largest library consortium-based open access agreements with RSC in the United States to date. This groundbreaking agreement enables all corresponding authors affiliated with … Read More
Our March Class and Instructor Spotlight is the Performing Arts Readiness project. We have three free PAR classes coming up in March: Networking for Disaster Management in the Performing Arts March 7, 2 – 4 p.m. EST Health and Safety for Performing Arts Organizations March 14, 2 – 3:30 p.m. EST Lessons Learned from the … Read More