No Fees? No Problem: Advancing Diamond Open Access (Online)

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Celebrate International Open Access Week 2026 at Harvard Library.

Join us for a conversation with special guests Denis Bourget of Peer Community In (PCI) and Melissa Seelye of the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP).

While some forms of open access remove paywalls from readers just to place them in front of authors, no-fee (diamond) open access does away with paywalls altogether. Scholars can read groundbreaking research free of charge, and authors can contribute to the conversation unfettered by fees.

Denis Bourget and Melissa Seelye will share how PCI and OACIP — both diamond open access initiatives — are breaking down barriers and creating new ways to support scholarly research. OACIP provides a community-driven framework that enables the evaluation and collective funding of diamond open access journals. PCI offers thematic platforms to review preprints, as well as the multidisciplinary, indexed, and diamond open access Peer Community Journal, where validated preprints can be published without author-side fees.

Learn about how OACIP and PCI are advancing the creation, sharing, and publication of diamond open access scholarship.

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