What is OACIP?
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, museums, and funding agencies - to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Open Access (OA) journals. The program is designed to be:
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Sustainable - Investments in OACIP support costs of labor, infrastructure, contingency, and innovation of each journal.
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Principle-aligned - The
OACIP Criteria Form enables investors to make principled spending decisions and strategically fund programs that align with their missions.
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Inclusive - OACIP provides a hub for Diamond OA content published by nonprofit, academic-led publishers to sustain bibliodiversity, equity, and inclusion of scholarship.
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Collaborative - OACIP enables an array of communities to share the costs of funding scholarship
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Efficient - OACIP centralizes the administration and funding of individual journals or across the entire OACIP portfolio.
