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

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

a hot mess

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Sustainable Annual Payment

Institutional Type-Based Formula

minus

Support for Other OA Initiatives

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

Journals

Cultural Anthropology publishes articles that represent anthropological research, critical analysis, and academic writing of the very highest order. Read more…

Partners:

Table of ExpensesEditorial | Hosting/Access | Preservation | Infrastructure | Growth

List of Contributing Supporters/Subscribers Institutions | Libraries | Consortia | Individuals | Foundations

90%

$ Cultural Anthropology

support

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 ExpensesEditorial | Hosting/Access | Preservation | Infrastructure | Growth

List of Contributing Supporters/Subscribers Institutions | Libraries | Consortia | Individuals | Foundations

30%

$

American Academy Studies in Global Security

support

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

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.

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

Knowledge Made Public

Merci.

@OA_Network

Lisa Norberg, PrincipalK|N ConsultantsNew York, NY