Open Access Programs

Lyrasis advances Open Scholarship initiatives and programs that empower diverse institutions to engage across the evolving scholarly communication landscape.

We support Open Access (OA) publishing programs as well as open research infrastructure programs, all aligned with the core principles of the Lyrasis Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives department.

The OA business models and terms used on this page are described in this glossary from KU Leuven.

Lyrasis honors the participating institutions as OA Champions as they are instrumental in the global effort to make knowledge accessible to all.

Open to Lyrasis Members

ACM Open – read-and-publish agreement that offers unlimited OA publishing along with unlimited access to paywalled content, to enable the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to flip to full OA by 2026.
Annual Reviews Subscribe to Open – institutions subscribe to journal packages, and if support is sufficient, Annual Reviews publishes its frontlist journal issues gold OA.
Bloomsbury Open Collections – a subscribe-to-open type program to publish scholarly open access books in key subjects (gratis backlist access included). Subject areas are African Studies + International Development, Environment + Climate Change and Gender + Sexuality.
Cambridge University Press Read & Publish Agreement – transformative agreement offering unlimited OA publishing along with full access to Cambridge’s paywalled journal content.
IOP Publishing Read & Publish Agreement – transformative agreement with unlimited OA publishing and full access to the IOPscience Extra journal package.
MIT Press Direct to Open – a conditional non-BPC open access model that, if support is sufficient, allows MIT Press to publish its monograph frontlist to open access.
Royal Society of Chemistry Read & Publish Agreement – transformative agreement to allow unlimited gold OA publishing and full access to the RSC Gold journal package.
Springer Nature Read & Publish Agreement – transformative agreement offering full access to all Springer imprint journals along with OA publishing in Springer imprint hybrid OA journals, as well as a la carte subscription opportunities for Nature-branded titles and other Springer Nature content.
The Royal Society Read & Publish Agreement – transformative agreement with unlimited OA publishing along with full access to journal Package S.

Open to U.S. Participants

Demography Subscribe to Open – institutions subscribe to this population research journal, and if annual support is sufficient, Duke University Press publishes its frontlist issues immediate open access with no author fees.
Knowledge Unlatched – invites libraries to collectively fund the open access publishing of books, journals, and infrastructure across multiple disciplines and publishers.
Liverpool University Press Open Planning Subscribe to Open Journals – institutions subscribe to either or both urban planning journals, and if support is sufficient, Liverpool University Press publishes the journals’ frontlist issues immediate open access.
Open Library of Humanities – a collective subscription model for libraries to support humanities-focused, peer-reviewed, diamond open access journals.
Punctum Books: Special Collections – a collective non-BPC preservation initiative that, if support is sufficient, allows punctum books to republish re-designed print and open access editions of the back catalogs of historically significant independent presses founded by structurally marginalized groups whose operations have ceased.
Punctum Books Supporting Library Membership Program – a collective membership model supporting the operations of a non-BPC open access independent press that specializes in publishing paradigm-shifting monographs in the humanities and social sciences.
SCOAP3 – a global non-APC open access program to fund journal articles and books in high energy physics supported by libraries, governments, and research organizations.

Open to Global Participants

Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy Subscribe to Open – institutions subscribe to this journal addressing climate change, and if support is sufficient, Toronto University Press publishes its frontlist issues immediate open access.
Lever Press – a collective membership model supporting the operations of a native open access press governed by a community of liberal arts institutions that publish peer-reviewed open access monographs at no cost to authors.
Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) – a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders to efficiently and strategically evaluate and collectively fund diamond open access journals. Open to global participants.
Opening the Future – a conditional non-BPC open access model that, once support is sufficient, allows Opening the Future publishers to publish frontlist monographs open access. Participating publishers include Central European University Press Opening the Future and Liverpool University Press Opening the Future.
University of Michigan Press Fund to Mission Open Access Monographs – a conditional non-BPC open access model that, if support is sufficient, allows University of Michigan Press to publish at least 75% of their monograph frontlist open access.

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