The following public affirmation was co-authored by library and faculty participants of the OATIP workshop.

On August 28-29 2019, library and faculty participants from 17 universities and consortia came together at the Open Access Tipping Point workshop in Washington DC to learn from one another, express our shared values, and pursue a more open and equitable scholarly communication ecosystem.

While our approaches and strategies may take different forms, we affirm the importance of using journal license negotiations to promote open access to our scholarship and to support sustainable business models, including the elimination of dual payments to publishers.

We will advocate broadly, and work with our stakeholders both locally and in existing consortia, to advance these common goals.

Ivy Anderson, California Digital Library

Kristin Antelman, University of California Santa Barbara

Clare Appavoo, Canadian Research Knowledge Network

Jonathan Bengtson, University of Victoria

Kum-Kum Bhavnani, University of California Academic Senate

Sylvie Brouder, Purdue University

Curtis Brundy, Iowa State University

Philip Bourne, University of Virginia

David Carlson, Texas A&M University

Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University

Colleen Conway, University of Michigan

Bob Ferry, University of Colorado Boulder

Trent Hill, University of Washington

James Hilton, University of Michigan

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University of California Berkeley

Michael Masson, University of Victoria

Robert May, University of California Academic Senate

Robert H. McDonald, University of Colorado Boulder

Chris Nelson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Denise Pan, University of Washington

Rebecca Richardson, Purdue University

Richard Schneider, University of California San Francisco

Michael J. Scott, San Francisco State University

Hilary Seo, Iowa State University

David Staack, Texas A&M University

Mark Stover, California State University, Northridge

Andrew Suarez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Anthony So, Johns Hopkins University

John Unsworth, University of Virginia

Günter Waibel, California Digital Library

Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University

Evviva Weinraub, University at Buffalo

Brigitte Weinsteiger, University of Pennsylvania

Elaine L. Westbrooks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

John Wilkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Institutional affiliations listed for identification purposes only.