The document discusses the need for a sustainable open access publishing model that recognizes the true costs of scholarly communication and supports various stakeholders. It proposes an annual payment system for institutions and libraries, promoting partnerships to enhance infrastructure and best practices within scholarly publishing. The Open Access Network aims to develop a scalable solution for humanities and social sciences, ensuring broad support and funding for all aspects of scholarly communication.

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