Presentation by Lisa Norberg from K|N Consultant, during the seminar New Models of Knowledge Dissemination and Open Access in Canada, organised the 17/11/2015 by Érudit and CRKN.

1. Open Access (OA) publishing is
in a state of flux

2. Open Access (OA) publishing is
in a state of flux
a hot mess

3. Summary Points
• We need a business model that recognizes the true costs
involved in the creation, dissemination, and preservation of the
scholarly record.
• We need a business model that supports the interests of all
stakeholders including scholars, societies, presses, and our
publics.
• We need a business model that is scalable and sustainable and
responsive to traditional as well as new and evolving modes of
scholarly communication.

5. Knowledge Made Public
The Open Access Network is a non-profit organization
leading a collective, inclusive, and global effort to
develop a scalable and sustainable solution to scholarly
communication in the humanities and social sciences.

6. http://knconsultants.org/toward-a-sustainable-approach-to-open-access-publishing-and-archiving/

7. Our Assumptions
• Researchers and scholars prefer to publish in venues most relevant to
them and their peers, often those associated with learned and
scholarly societies and presses.
• Sharing and preserving the products of research and scholarship is
the responsibility of every academic and research institution and
library.
• Current models of OA publishing based on cost-per-unit approaches
are not easily adapted to new forms of scholarly communication, thus
not scalable or sustainable.
• Research is global but support for research is local.

8. Our Proposal
We ask for an
annual institutional/
library payment.
We encourage
partnerships between
libraries, scholarly
societies, university
presses, and others.
These mission-driven
alliances develop
infrastructure and best
practices needed to
support an open and
dynamic scholarly
information ecosystem.

9. Sustainable Annual Payment
Institutional Type-Based Formula
minus
Support for Other OA Initiatives

10. Distribution of Funds
Annual payment goes toward
institutional priorities:
• Geographic/regional
• Subject discipline
• Language (French, Spanish,
Chinese, Slavic)
• Format type (OERs, journals,
monographs, platforms)
$ 1,500,000
Thank
you!
Philosophy

11. Journals
Cultural Anthropology publishes articles
that represent anthropological research,
critical analysis, and academic writing of
the very highest order. Read more…
Partners:
Table of Expenses
Editorial | Hosting/Access | Preservation | Infrastructure | Growth
List of Contributing Supporters/Subscribers
Institutions | Libraries | Consortia | Individuals | Foundations
90%
$
Cultural Anthropology
support

12. Monographs
Profound political, economic, environmental, and
technological changes now underway are shaping the
prospects for peace and human well-being in the
coming decades. Read more…
Partners:
Table of Expenses
Editorial | Hosting/Access | Preservation | Infrastructure | Growth
List of Contributing Supporters/Subscribers
Institutions | Libraries | Consortia | Individuals | Foundations
30%
$
American Academy Studies in
Global Security
support

13. Additional Funding Streams
• Open Access Network
- Organizational and individual donations
- Foundation and corporate partners and sponsors
• Societies and Publishers
- Innovative research services
- Print on demand

14. Value Proposition
• Institutions, libraries, consortia:
• Advance research and scholarship
• Lower the cost of education
• Support lifelong learning
• Scholarly societies, university presses:
• Stable revenue source
• Maintain quality
• Support innovation
• Individuals, foundations, corporations:
• Access research and scholarship
• Fuel economy
• Support education

15. Addressing Free Riders
• Tying institution and/or library rankings to measurable support
(e.g., funding) for open access incentivizes institutions/libraries
to contribute
• Governmental grant-funding agencies and foundation policies
provide carrots and sticks
• Institutional support demonstrates mission alignment
• Opportunity for anyone to give enables psychology of “doing
good”

16. Key Points
• Our plan is incremental, employing traditional roles in
evolving ways — we are not profit-driven so we can take
the long view.
• Our aim is to fund the entire scholarly communications
infrastructure — from creation to preservation —
including all of the elements that make up the scholarly
record.
• The Open Access Network is complementary, not
competitive with other OA models.

17. Phased Approach
Launch phase demonstrate broad support for collective approach
through membership program and test assumptions
Phase 1 demonstrate proof of concept by converting some
humanities and social science (HSS) publications to OA and by
providing sustainable funding to some born-digital projects
Phase 2 expand practical implementation of our model to
demonstrate it can operate at scale
Phase 3 (full implementation phase) expand funding and broaden
application and review process for proposals to include all comers,
from any discipline and from any publisher

18. Knowledge Made Public
Merci.
@OA_Network
Lisa Norberg, Principal
K|N Consultants
New York, NY