Open Access Network

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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 and support open access publishing in the humanities and social sciences.{{cite web|title=What is the Open Access Network?|url=http://www.openaccessnetwork.org|website=Open Access Network|accessdate=28 February 2015}} 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.{{cite web|last1=Seeley|first1=Alexis|last2=Norberg|first2=Lisa|last3=Kennison|first3=Rebecca|title=A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access|url=http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/scalable-and-sustainable-approach-open-access|website=Educause Review|date=15 September 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Anderson|first1=Rick|title=the scholarly kitchen|url=http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/05/05/a-modest-proposal-for-scaled-up-open-access/|website=A Modest Proposal for Scaled-up Open Access|date=5 May 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Norberg|first1=Lisa|title=Digital Publishing - Open Access|url=http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/innovation-in-digital-publishing/digital-publishing-open-access/|website=Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health|publisher=New York Academic of Medicine|accessdate=28 February 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Straumsheim|first1=Carl|title=Sustaining Open Access|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/12/new-open-access-publishing-model-praised-audacity-sustainability-concerns-remain|publisher=Inside Higher Ed|date=12 May 2014}}