the open access network: rebecca kennison’s talk for the mit prorgam on information science
TRANSCRIPT
Making Knowledge PublicThe 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/
Key Components
• 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
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 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
Our Proposal
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.
Value Proposition
• 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
Sustainable Annual Payment
$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
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!
Linguistics as Prototype
Key Points
• 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.
Phased Approach
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 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 Current Network
Knowledge Made Public
openaccessnetwork.org@[email protected]