The Budapest Open Access Initiative ( BOAI ) is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature , which was released to the public on February 14, 2002. It arose from a convening in Budapest organized by the Open Society Institute on December 1–2 2001 to promote open access, which at that time was also known as Free Online Scholarship . This small gathering of individuals is recognized as one of the major defining events of the open access movement . As of 2021, the text of the initiative had been translated to 13 languages.
17-540: (Redirected from BOAI ) Boai or BOAI may refer to: Budapest Open Access Initiative , conference convened by the Open Society Institute in 2001 Bo'ai County , in Henan, China Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Boai . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
34-452: A new statement was released which reaffirmed the BOAI's definition of open access, its goals, strategies and commitment to make progress. It also contained "the new goal that within the next ten years, OA will become the default method for distributing new peer-reviewed research in every field and country", policy recommendations for universities, research funding agencies, recommendations on choosing
51-810: Is an international statement on open access and access to knowledge . It emerged from a conference on open access hosted in the Harnack House in Berlin by the Max Planck Society in 2003. Following the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002 and the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing in 2003, the Berlin Declaration was a third influential event in the establishment of the open access movement. Peter Suber has referred to
68-482: Is when authors deposit a copy of their own text to open archives on the internet. Preferably these archives should conform to the standards of the Open Archives Initiative and make it easy for users to find the texts. Second, scholars should launch new online open access journals and help other periodicals to adapt the principles of open access. In 2012 on the 10th anniversary of the original initiative,
85-615: The Budapest initiative defined open access to research, lay out strategies for achieving this, and began the "open access movement" or "social movement" phase of open access advocacy. The initiative was sponsored with a US$ 3 million grant from the Open Society Institute . The 16 original signatories of the Budapest Open Access Initiative included prominent early advocates for open access: In February 2002,
102-498: The development and assessment of open access related tools and measures. As of November 2022 , there are 769 signatories of the declaration. At a 2005 follow-up conference, the declaration was refined to two key principles: signatories should require researchers to deposit a copy of their work in an open access repository and encourage the publication of work in open access journals when available. Today these two concepts are often called "green OA" and "gold OA", respectively, and
119-546: The first and most widely used definitions of open access, which was subsequently reaffirmed, 10 years after it was first published: By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to
136-413: The fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. The document contains one of
153-415: The increasing importance of the internet and the previous discussions on the need for open access, it offered the following definition of an open access contribution: Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions: The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display
170-441: The initiative in 2012, the original initiative was reaffirmed and supplemented with a set of recommendations for achieving open access in the next 10 years. The opening sentence of the BOAI encapsulated the purpose and potential of an open access movement: An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish
187-429: The internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. In 2001, the BOAI recommended two complementary strategies in order to achieve open access to scientific literature. First, scholars should follow the practice of self-archiving which
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#1732852069103204-403: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boai&oldid=932728867 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Budapest Open Access Initiative On the 10th anniversary of
221-638: The optimal licence ( CC-BY ), designing open access repository infrastructure, and advocacy for achieving open access. In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the original declaration, the BOAI2020 Steering Committee released four high-level recommendations alongside a set of subrecommendations. Along with the 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities and 2003 Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing ,
238-399: The signatories released BOAI in a version that could be signed by the public. As of February 2016 , over 5,900 individuals and 800 organizations had signed it. By 2023, this was over 6800 individuals and 1600 organizations. Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
255-557: The three events combined as the "BBB definition" of open access as the three overlap with and inform one another. The declaration was drafted at an October 2003 conference held by the Max Planck Society and the European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) project. More than 120 cultural and political organizations from around the world attended. The statement itself was published on October 22, 2003. Acknowledging
272-723: The work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving. It also encouraged researchers and institutions to publish their work in accordance with these principles, advocate for open access and help in
289-425: The work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. A complete version of
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