K|N’s Open Access Network: Knowledge Made Public

"The Open Access Network (OAN), a project set to establish a business model for OA in the humanities and social sciences, was the topic of a key session at “Knowledge Made Public,” a May 5 conference held at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center Library. The session featured a presentation by K|N Consultants principals Rebecca Kennison and Lisa Norberg, who were joined by Martin Burke and Jessie Daniels of the CUNY Graduate Center, and Ken Wissoker, editorial director at Duke University Press, for a lively and informative discussion of OAN, K|N’s newest initiative, which will launch in mid-May. As OA practices are beginning to take hold in the culture of academic publishing, the fields of humanities and social sciences (HSS) have typically lagged behind those of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Because HSS research is rarely funded as fully as STEM, the article processing charges (APCs) that OA journals charge researchers to make up the difference in subscription revenue can be prohibitive. In addition, OA has yet to become an ingrained part of the scholarly communications ecosystem, and current practices remain divisive ..."