Becoming an institutional member
FJN institutional membership is available to any organization interested in promotion of scholarly research under the Fair Open Access Principles. Examples of such organizations are university libraries, research funders and charitable foundations; for-profit publishers are specifically excluded. FJN institutional membership is completely separate from any other support that the organization in question may give to diamond OA journals, including publishing services. Institutional membership is always at the discretion of the FJN board.
There are three levels of membership: brown ($2000/year), orange ($5000/year), blue ($10000/year), and we prefer a minimum 3-year commitment. The money is used for some basic running expenses (website, charities registration, etc), for grants to FJN journals to improve their performance, for activities such as commissioning resources to share with the community (e.g. in 2022 from PKP for OJS Plan S compliance) and defraying expenses for attendance at important conferences on Diamond OA.
Institutional members will be listed prominently on the FJN website and advertised on our Twitter account. Each institutional member is eligible to put forward one representative annually to stand for election to the governing board, but they do not themselves have voting rights in the organization, and only one such representative can serve at any time. Orange and Blue members can automatically have a member on the Advisory Board.
Current institutional members
- MIT Libraries (brown)
- University of Pittsburgh Libraries (blue)
- UCLA Libraries (blue)
- Purdue University Libraries (blue)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (brown)
- Iowa State University Libraries (brown)
- Harvard Library (brown)