From: Kate McCready <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:01:00 -0500
We're excited to share this news with all of you!
Better together: BTAA Libraries, CDL and Lyrasis commit to strengthen
Diamond Open Access in the United States
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April 18, 2024 - Representatives from the Big Ten Academic Alliance
Libraries (BTAA Libraries), California Digital Library (CDL), and Lyrasis
attended the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access [OA]
<https://globaldiamantoa.org/diamond-open-access-conference/en/home-2/> in
Toluca, Mexico in October 2023*. The Summit convened the international
community to engage in dialog about how to advance Diamond OA to secure
scholarly research as a public good and ensure equitable access to both the
publishing and reading of that research. You can learn more from the
recently released Report of the 2nd Diamond Open Access Conference
<https://www.scienceeurope.org/our-resources/2nd-diamond-oa-conference-report/>
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The Summit made evident the substantial global commitment to Diamond OA. If
the United States is to be a strong participant in this important global
movement, it is our observation that collaborative action is needed to
develop this model at a national scale within the US as an equitable,
robust, and values-driven pathway to open access. We acknowledge the deep
commitment to Diamond OA already exemplified by the activities of the
library publishing and repository communities in the US, and we seek to
build on this commitment, strengthening the Diamond OA pathway by
committing to working together and making our shared resources go further.
The BTAA Libraries, CDL, and Lyrasis already partner in a host of related
areas including collective funding programs for Diamond OA initiatives,
increased adoption of persistent identifiers, and support for robust OA
infrastructure services that enhance discovery and access. The Global
Summit has inspired us to go further together – to pool our efforts and
combine our strengths to help realize the potential of Diamond OA as a
critically important pathway toward open scholarship. We see this work as a
necessary companion to other substantial commitments and investments that
our organizations are already making to transform the scholarly publishing
landscape and increase access to the results of scholarly research.
Ultimately, we hope that a successful collaboration among our three
organizations will inspire action, put wind in the sails of those who are
already pursuing Diamond OA, and create new on-ramps for those who at
present have not found the right opportunity to engage. These aspirations
reflect our organizations’ mutual commitment to use collective action to
advance Diamond OA in the US. In the next few months, we will be sharing
news of a specific set of activities aligned with these aspirations. The
time is right to align our organizations’ work with the momentum happening
in the global community.
We are better together.
Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost & Executive Director, California
Digital Library
John Wilkin, Chief Executive Officer, Lyrasis
Maurice York, Director of Library Initiatives, Big Ten Academic Alliance
To learn more, please contact:
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Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist, Open Access & Scholarly Communication
Initiatives, Lyrasis
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Kate McCready, Visiting Program Officer, Academy Owned Scholarly
Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance
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Catherine Mitchell, Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization,
California Digital Library
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* Diamond Open Access (OA) refers to a scholarly communication framework in
which there is neither a cost to the reader to read nor the author(s) to
publish. Diamond OA publications and platforms are often led and owned by
scholarly communities.
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About the Big Ten Academic Alliance:
The Big Ten Academic Alliance is the nation’s preeminent model for
effective collaboration among research universities. For more than half a
century, these world-class institutions have advanced their academic
missions, generated unique opportunities for students and faculty, and
served the common good by sharing expertise, leveraging campus resources,
and collaborating on innovative programs. Governed by the provosts of the
member universities, the Big Ten Academic Alliance coordinates shared
programs and initiatives through its Champaign, Illinois headquarters. The
fifteen world-class libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance include
Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University,
Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University,
Rutgers University, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University
of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of
Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of
Chicago.
About the California Digital Library:
The systemwide library for the ten University of California campuses, the
California Digital Library (CDL) is committed to advancing open access to
scholarly research via a number of innovative strategies or “pathways”.
Among these is eScholarship Publishing, a Diamond open access library
publishing program supported by the UC system and offered free of charge to
UC-affiliated editors, authors, and publications. eScholarship offers
publishing and production tools as well as professional support and
consulting services for journals, preprints, monographs, and other original
scholarship. eScholarship’s publications (including its nearly 100 OA
journals) often traverse traditional disciplinary boundaries, explore new
publishing models, support under-represented voices within the scholarly
record, and reach communities and/or professionals in applied fields beyond
academia.
About Lyrasis:
Lyrasis is a community-supported membership organization whose mission is
to support enduring access to the world’s shared academic, scientific, and
cultural heritage through leadership in open technologies, content
services, digital solutions, and collaboration with archives, libraries,
museums, and knowledge communities worldwide.
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*Kate McCready*
Visiting Program Officer for Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing
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The nation's premier higher education consortium of top-tier research
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