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K|N Consultants (federal tax ID: 46-4698607) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides strategic and operational guidance via a range of consultation services to mission-driven organizations such as academic institutions, libraries, learned societies, scholarly publishers and university presses, government agencies, and private foundations.

K|N also legally does business as the Open Access Network.

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To foster broad knowledge infrastructure transformation through innovative, collaborative solutions that will result in more efficient and nimble systems of knowledge creation and dissemination and in expanded and more sustainable educational opportunities for disadvantaged populations.
To improve and make more efficient all stages of the research and teaching life cycle within higher education.
To create a more just, equitable, synergistic, and sustainable scholarly system that allows academic institutions and organizations, academic, national and public libraries, learned and scholarly societies, scholarly publishers and university presses, government agencies, private foundations and other mission-driven organizations to fulfill their own core missions of advancing knowledge and learning locally, nationally and globally.

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OA in the Open: Community Needs and Perspectives

Rebecca Kennison, Judy Ruttenberg, Yasmeen Shorish, and Liz Thompson This white paper and all supporting materials have been archived on LISSA (LIS Scholarly Archives). Supporting materials include data analysis and redacted transcripts of the focus groups. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services LG-73-18-0226-18. The views, findings,…

Altmetrics in Humanities and Social Sciences

Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Rebecca Kennison 30 October 2017 INTRODUCTION The spread of open digital forms of scholarly communication, combined with increasing institutional pressure to track research “impact,” has encouraged scholars and administrators in the humanities and social sciences to turn their attention to metrics that promise to help in the assessment of research outputs. However,…

A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving for Humanities and Social Sciences

In the 13 years since the Budapest Open Access (OA) Initiative launched what is now known as the “OA movement,” considerable strides have been made toward widespread adoption of the principles of OA. Practice, however, has lagged behind, as both credibility and business models have struggled to gain traction. The transition to OA from subscription-based…