Come Together Right Now: An Introduction to the Open Access Network
Officially launched just over a year ago, the Open Access Network (OAN)offers a transformative, sustainable, and scalable model of open access(OA) publishing and preservation that encourages partnerships amongscholarly societies, research libraries, and other partners (e.g., academicpublishers, university presses, collaborative e-archives) who share acommon mission to support the creation and distribution of open researchand scholarship and to encourage more affordable education, which can be adirect outcome of OA publishing. Our ultimate goal is to develop acollective funding approach that is fair and open and that fully sustainsthe infrastructure needed to support the full life-cycle for communicationof the scholarly record, including new and evolving forms of researchoutput. Simply put, we intend to *Make Knowledge Public*.