The Open Access Network (OAN) encourages partnerships between scholarly societies, research libraries, and other institutional partners in order to support the infrastructure of

scholarly communication Scholarly communication involves the creation, publication, dissemination and discovery of academic research, primarily in peer-reviewed journals and books. It is “the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evalu ...

and support

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre o ...

publishing in the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at th ...

and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the o ...

. It was launched in 2015 by K, N Consultants, the not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization which authored the well-received white paper on which the OAN is based.

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External links

Open Access Network websiteK, N ConsultantsKennison, R. and Norberg, L. (2014) "Toward a scalable and sustainable approach to open access publishing and archiving for humanities and social sciences societies: a proposal"
2015 establishments in New York (state) Open access projects