Open Access Network Charleston Conference 2015

Making Knowledge 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.

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

Our Assumptions• Researchers and scholars prefer to publish in venues most

relevant to them and their peers, often those associated with scholarly societies.

• 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.

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 todemonstrate 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

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.

Annual Payment Formula

$0.50/student/years 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)

Support for institutional OA initiatives

Distribution - Think: United Way

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!

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

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

Managing the Collective

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”

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.

Knowledge Made Public

Thank you.

@OA_Network

Lisa Norberg, PrincipalK|N ConsultantsNew York, NY