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Full member and Working Group member of Small & Teaching-First Universities Working Group: COAPI was formed to share information and experiences and to illuminate opportunities for moving faculty-led open access forward at member institutions and advocating for open access nationally and internationally.

Supporting member. Smith Libraries supports this initiative out of MIT Press: D2O harnesses the collective power of libraries to support open and equitable access to vital, leading scholarship.

Institutional membership: DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

Path to Open aims to establish a financially stable model benefiting both publishers and authors through library support.

Knowledge Unlatched and its platform Open Research Library, offer a single platform fordiscovery of peer-reviewed open access books. Its online marketplace provides libraries and institutions with a central place to support OA collections and models from leading publishing houses. Knowledge Unlatched is owned by Wiley as of 2021. Smith pledges support for journal, eBook, and video collections.

Supporting institution. Lever produces peer reviewed, born digital, open access monographs at no cost to authors or their academic institutions.

Institutional membership: OACIP aims to support and advance open-access publishing by providing funding to high-quality scholarly journals seeking financial support to transition to an open-access model.

Supporting library: D2O harnesses the collective power of libraries to support open and equitable access to vital, leading scholarship.

Project MUSE Subscribe to Open (S2O) is an equitable open access model for scholarly journals that enables subscription journals to open access to their current content without Article Processing Charges (APCs). The Project MUSE S2O program is built around the current journal collections model, and will launch with the calendar year 2025 subscription term.

Institutional membership: supports the award-winning Open Access monograph publishing program.

Institutional membership. This network promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks. 

Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics.