The MIT Press and Open Mind have announced a partnership with Lyrasis through the Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP), a model designed to bring together libraries, scholarly communities, and nonprofit publishers to support diamond open access journals.
Through OACIP, Lyrasis provides a community-driven framework that enables academic and public libraries, academic departments, institutions, research centers, museums, and funding agencies to collectively evaluate and fund diamond open access journals. Under this model, journals operate without charging authors or readers, with the stated objective of expanding global access to peer-reviewed research.
The MIT Press has indicated that the partnership supports its long-standing focus on open access publishing and is intended to secure sustained support for Open Mind as a fully open access journal.
Founded in 2017, Open Mind publishes research in cognitive science and covers a wide range of subject areas, including cognitive psychology, computer science and mathematical psychology, cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, comparative psychology and behavioral anthropology, decision sciences, and theoretical and experimental linguistics.
Lyrasis has confirmed that the OACIP funding window for Open Mind will remain open through July 31, 2026. Information on institutional participation is available through Lyrasis’s Open Access Community Investment Program resources.
Perspectives shared by the journal’s editorial leadership emphasize that direct support from academic libraries and institutions is viewed as central to the journal’s mission of providing universal, free access to knowledge and operating independently of corporate publishing models. The journal has also outlined that open access publishing addresses a previously limited availability of open access options within cognitive science and is intended to expand access to research in the field.
The journal has further indicated that long-term goals include expanding readership and impact, as well as contributing to broader, cooperative publishing models involving academic libraries and publishers that could benefit multiple journals over time.
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