Scholarly Communication Program Overview
Working Together to Create Impactful Opportunities to Shape and Sustain Scholarly Communication
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Core Principles
- Authenticity: We prioritize causes that benefit the communities we serve and believe that we can accomplish more together than alone.
- Integrity: We cultivate trusted relationships with our members and partners through consistent, open and honest dialogue.
- Inclusivity: We recognize that diverse perspectives create empowered and influential communities.
- Innovation: We actively seek diverse opportunities to affect positive change.
- Connectivity: We strengthen connections within and across communities to foster collaboration for broad and meaningful impact.
- Sustainability: We build sustainable communities by respecting the evolving landscape of scholarly communication and developing new models for emerging needs.
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Key Features
- We negotiate best-in-class group license agreements and more equitable and sustainable pricing. We work at scale to simplify library acquisition workflows and improve value on investment for our members. Explore a list of all offers.
- We provide robust support for Open Access content programs, several at national scale.
- We build new communities to foster data exchange and interoperability services that enhance scholarly communication such as the ORCID US, Lyrasis DataCite and IRUS-US communities.
- We negotiate select digitization and supply discounts for our members from vendors vetted for their high standard of service.
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Partnerships
Lyrasis prioritizes vendor partnerships that:
- Align with the mission and values of Lyrasis and its members and partners;
- Address the needs of library and scholarly communities in unique or innovative ways;
- Advance a more open, equitable and inclusive scholarly communication ecosystem;
- Achieve sustainability both as an organization and as a Lyrasis partner; and
- Meet or exceed library and industry licensing and technical standards.
To express interest in partnering with Lyrasis, or to bring a potential vendor partner to our attention, please email us at csci@lyrasis.org.

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LyrOffers
Lyrasis members that want to receive continuing information on all Lyrasis scholarly content activities are invited to subscribe to the Lyroffers email list.
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LyrOpen
To receive updates and information about Lyrasis activities in support of open content, open source software and related services, subscribe to the Lyropen email list.