K|N Consultants

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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.

Your tax-deductible donation will help us:

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.

Upon receipt of your donation you will receive a letter for your records that confirms your tax-deductible contribution and includes our federal nonprofit tax ID number.

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A Preservation Primer

As we discuss at length in our white paper “A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving for Humanities and Social Sciences”, preservation of the scholarly record should be at the heart of any scholarly communication enterprise — and academic and research libraries have an important role to play in ensuring that…

Project Briefing: Toward a Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving

In a presentation given at the Coalition for Networked Information’s 2013 Fall Membership Meeting in Washington, DC, K|N’s principals outlined our proposal for a transformative rethinking of open-access publishing, with the goal of engaging the audience in a conversation about the pros and cons of our proposed model. The five most important components of the…