Open Science

" ... The OAN is a transformative model of open access (OA) publishing and preservation that encourages partnerships among scholarly societies, university presses, research libraries, and other institutional partners (e.g., collaborative e-archives and repositories) who share a common mission to support the creation and distribution of research and scholarship and encourage affordable education. The OAN includes a plan to convert traditional subscription publication formats, including society- or university press–published journals and books or monographs, to OA; however, our ultimate goal is to provide an approach to funding that is fair and open and fully sustains the infrastructure needed to support the full life-cycle for communication of the scholarly record, including new and evolving forms of research output. Simply put, we intend to Make Knowledge Public ..."