Rebecca Kennison, who is the Principal of K|N Consultants, the co-founder of the Open Access Network; and was was the founding director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, gave this talk on Come Together Right Now: An Introduction To The Open Access Network as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series.

2. MakingKnowledgePublic
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.

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

4. KeyComponents
• Goal: fund entire scholarly communication infrastructure, not
simply certain types of research output
• Funds collected, expended expressly for collaborative
partnerships
• Focus on humanities and social sciences
• Institutions asked to fund (not necessarily libraries)
• Full participation from entire higher education community,
from small community and liberal arts colleges and large
research universities alike

5. OurAssumptions
• Researchers and scholars prefer to publish in venues most
relevant to them and their peers, often those associated with
scholarly societies
• Sharing and preserving products of research and scholarship
are 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

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

7. ValueProposition
• For institutions, libraries: advance research and
scholarship, lower cost of education, support lifelong
learning
• For scholarly societies, university presses: ensure
revenue, sustain operations to maintain quality programs,
support innovation
• For individuals, foundations, corporations: access
research and scholarship to solve societal problems, fuel
economy and innovation, support education

8. SustainableAnnualPayment
$0.50/student/year of study to highest degree awarded
[AA = $1 | BA/BS = $2 | MA/MFA/MS = $3 | PhD/MD/JD = $5]
+
$5/full-time faculty
(administration, staff, and adjuncts exempt)
OR
OA student fee + Matching institutional amount
MINUS
Support for institutional HSS OA initiatives

10. Distribution
Annual payment goes toward
institutional priorities:
• Geographic/regional
• Subject discipline (e.g.,
linguistics)
• Language (e.g., French,
Spanish, Chinese, Slavic)
• Format type (OERs,
journals, monographs,
platforms)
$5,200,000
Thank
you!

11. LinguisticsasPrototype

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

13. PhasedApproach
Launch phase: Demonstrate broad support for collective
approach through membership program and test assumptions
through conversations
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

14. OurCurrentNetwork

15. Knowledge Made Public
openaccessnetwork.org
@OA_Network
oan@knconsultants.org