The LIS Scholarship Archive (osf.io/preprints/lissa) has fully launched and we are ready to help you open your work! The LIS Scholarship Archive, in partnership with the Center for Open Science, is a free, open, and community-led archive for scholarship in library and information science and allied fields.The infrastructure of LISSA is completely open source and all materials and associated metadata on LISSA will be permanently, publicly available.

The LIS community has shown support and leadership in open access to scholarship. We are working towards the goal of open LIS alongside the internationally renowned e-LIS, an e-print repository for LIS documents. While e-LIS has long provided a place for depositing traditional LIS scholarship, we look to provide an option for a broader range of works. We look forward to possible future collaboration with e-LIS in sharing the LIS disciplinary repository space.

On LISSA, LIS workers, students, trainees, and other in the field can make their incredible work open and discoverable, from metadata records to oral histories to manuscripts to data. Currently on LISSA, there are preprints, postprints, grant narratives, posters, book manuscripts, data, and code, in a variety of languages, from a diverse authorship! Let’s keep this going! If you are someone who works in LIS and who supports open scholarship, this is what you can do:

• Submit your work in less than 5min.
• Spread the word about LISSA, and encourage others to submit their work!

You can always get updates from LISSA on lissarchive.org or Twitter @LISSArchive (@LISSA_SCHOL for a feed of new uploads!) or via email (lissarchive@gmail.com). Feel free to reach out to us!