Open Access Community Investment Program
The Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) provides a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders — including academic and public libraries, academic departments, institutions, research centers, museums, and funding agencies — to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Open Access (OA) journals.
Program Principles
- Sustainable - Investments in OACIP support costs of labor, infrastructure, contingency and innovation of each journal.
- Principle-aligned - The OACIP Criteria Form enables investors to make principled spending decisions and strategically fund programs that align with their missions.
- Inclusive - OACIP provides a hub for Diamond OA content published by nonprofit, academic-led publishers to sustain bibliodiversity, equity and inclusion of scholarship.
- Collaborative - OACIP enables an array of communities to share the costs of funding scholarship
- Efficient - OACIP centralizes the administration and funding of individual journals or across the entire OACIP portfolio.
Journals Seeking Funding
2025-2026 Cohort
The nine diamond open access journals in this year’s cohort seek three-year funding commitments. For more information about each journal, visit the webpages linked below or explore the 2025-2026 Lyrasis OACIP Catalog. If you are interested in investing in one or more these journals, visit our How to Invest page.
- 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.
Previous Cohorts
Several journals from past cohorts are still in need of funding to meet their annual funding goals. Interested in supporting one or more of these journals? Reach out to us at oacip@lyrasis.org for more information.
Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique – the only bilingual (English and French), diamond open access, non-profit, peer-reviewed bioethics journal in Canada.
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society – a diamond open access venue for cultivating, evaluating and sharing cutting-edge research in the social studies of science, technology and medicine in transnational contexts.
Financial Services Review – as the official publication of the Academy of Financial Services (AFS), encourages open access research that examines the impact of financial issues on individuals.
Foucault Studies – a diamond open access journal with a 20-year publication history and the only international journal in the English language devoted to the work and influence of Michel Foucault.
Global Social Challenges Journal – aims to address urgent global social issues aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by facilitating thinking about positive new societal trajectories within an inter- and trans-disciplinary open access forum.
HKS Misinformation Review – new format of peer-reviewed, scholarly publication in which content is produced and "fast-reviewed" by misinformation scientists and scholars, released under open access licensing, and geared towards emphasizing real-world implications.
International Journal of Strength and Conditioning – a leading diamond open access journal published by the International Universities Strength and Conditioning Association (IUSCA), specializing in sport science, sport performance, and strength and conditioning.
Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies – a diamond open access journal committed to engaging with authors and readers, so as to go beyond the traditional multidisciplinary borders of research to carve a place for interdisciplinarity.
Observational Studies – advances open access scholarship on all aspects of observational studies, including study protocols, methodologies, descriptions of data sets, software and analyses.
Trans Asia Photography – the first and only open access international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary exploration of historic and contemporary photography from Asia and across the Asian diaspora.
2025-2026 OACIP Supporters
The success of OACIP is made possible by the funding community that forms around it. We sincerely thank our supporters:
- Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Falvey Library, Villanova University
- Iowa State University Library
- Lydia M. Olson Library, Northern Michigan University
- MIT Libraries
- New York University
- New York University
- San Jose State University Library
- Tilburg University - University Library
- University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of English