Mapping Diamond Open Access Journals: A Nationwide Study of the U.S. Scholarly Publishing Landscape
October 2025 - February 2027
Lyrasis, the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs, and the California Digital Library are leading the Mapping U.S. Diamond Open Access Journals project, funded by the Gates Foundation. This study will be the first national mapping of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing in the United States. Diamond OA journals are peer-reviewed, free for both authors and readers, and operate without commercial profit motives. The project will illuminate the decentralized U.S. Diamond OA landscape, identify key challenges, and produce actionable recommendations to support sustainable, community-governed scholarly publishing.
Advisory Board
An Advisory Board of experts from across scholarly publishing provides guidance to ensure the project’s scope, methods, and outputs are grounded in community realities and relevant to decision-makers and practitioners. The Advisory Board includes:
- Jason Colman, Director, Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan
- Lauren Collister, Research Engagement Manager, Invest in Open Infrastructure
- Raym Crow, Senior Consultant, SPARC
- Jessica Dallaire-Clark, Senior Coordinator, Open Access Development, Érudit
- Brian Dillon, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian, MIT Libraries
- Tim Elfenbein, Principal, Forthcoming LLC
- Annie Johnson, Associate University Librarian for Research, Teaching, and Technology, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
- Marcel LaFlamme, Director, Research Policy and Scholarship, Association of Research Libraries
- John Sherer, Director, UNC Press
Stay Informed
Please complete the U.S. Diamond Open Access Landscape Assessment Interest Form to receive updates about the project.
Contacts
- Sharla Lair, sharla.lair@lyrasis.org, Lead Strategist, Open Scholarship, Lyrasis
- Kate McCready, kate.mccready@btaa.org, Program Director for Open Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance
- Catherine Mitchell, catherine.mitchell@ucop.edu, Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization, California Digital Library
- Emily Goff, emily@goffgroupllc.com, Data Collection and Analysis Lead, Goff Group, LLC
