Introducing the Open Access Network ARCS 2015
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The document proposes a new sustainable approach to open access publishing and archiving. It suggests that all tertiary institutions pay an annual fee based on their Carnegie classification and number of students and faculty. This would provide stable funding to partnerships between scholarly societies, libraries, publishers and presses to support open access publishing operations, convert research outputs to open access formats, and develop new scholarly communication infrastructure and best practices. The goal is to fund the entire scholarly communications lifecycle from creation to preservation through an incremental approach that supports existing models.
Introducing the Open Access Network ARCS 2015
- 5. UnderlyingAssumptions -Researchers and scholars need/prefer to publish in venues most relevant to them and their peers, often those associated with scholarly societies. -Sharing the products of research and scholarship is the responsibility of every research institution. -While not every institution or scholarly society has the capacity to support a publishing enterprise, each has the ability and responsibility to support those who do.
- 6. UnderlyingAssumptions -The mission of academic and research library is to support dissemination, collection, organization, and preservation of scholarly output whatever form it takes. -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.
- 7. TheProposal All tertiary institutions pay annual fee based on their Carnegie (or similar) classification and number of FTE faculty and students.
- 8. TheProposal Partnerships among scholarly societies, libraries, publishers or university presses, and others receive stable annual funding to support operations, convert research output to open access, and embrace new forms and formats of scholarly communication.
- 9. TheProposal Together these mission-driven alliances develop infrastructure and best practices needed to support open and dynamic scholarly information ecosystem.
- 10. KeyPoints • Our aim is to fund the entire scholarly communications infrastructure — from creation to preservation. • Our plan is incremental, meeting academics, societies and presses where they are — we are not profit-driven so we can take the long view. • The Open Access Network is not additive or competitive with other OA models — it is complentary; supportive.
- 11. Talk. Tinker. Test. Free Rider
- 12. SimpleandTransparent $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) Disclaimer: Dollar amounts based on assessment of market tolerance. Actual amounts might differ. Among variables: Should public institutions pay same as private ones? How would model work in global South? Goal is nevertheless fee structure based on numbers that are publicly reported and therefore completely transparent.