[BOAI] 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative

[Iryna Kuchma]

[Forwarded message from Heather Joseph <heather at sparcopen.org>]

*“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an
unprecedented public good.” **- *The Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002

Fifteen years ago, the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) brought
together a diverse group of stakeholders and launched a worldwide campaign
for open access (OA) to all new peer-reviewed research. The BOAI
deliberately drew together existing projects to explore how they might
“work together to achieve broader, deeper, and faster success.”

“By "open access" to this [research] 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 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.”


The BOAI is a groundbreaking initiative that has been widely embraced by
stakeholders, and that has stimulated significant progress toward the
global understanding and adoption of open access. The BOAI was the first to
define the term “open access,” and its definition has since become
canonical, frequently cited in the context of open access policies,
practices, and laws around the world. Also, the BOAI’s recognition of
complementary strategies for implementing OA has been adopted extensively
across disciplines and in numerous countries.


The 15th anniversary of the BOAI offers an opportunity to take stock of our
collective progress. To do this, feedback was solicited through an open
survey, and we received responses from 69 countries around the world.
Additionally, we have convened a small working group to synthesize the
community feedback and use it to reflect on the values, impact, and
continued relevance of the BOAI. The Working Group will review and digest
the responses received and provide updated recommendations to reflect the
current status of the movement.


Later this week, we’re looking forward to the release of a comprehensive
reflection on where the open access movement has been and where it may be
headed, written by Jean-Claude Guédon, one of the original drafters of the
BOAI, and a noted thought leader in the open access community.


In the meantime, watch the BOAI 15 twitter feed (@TheBOAI
<https://twitter.com/TheBOAI>) and  #TheBOAI starting today for a series of
tweets showcasing some of the reactions collected from the wider Open
community on the impact of the BOAI and on open access in general. As
recommendations are formulated, these will be supplemented with more
action-oriented items from members of the BOAI 15 Working Group, which
include:

*Juan Pablo Alperin*, Assistant Professor and an Associate Director of the
Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University

*Virginia Barbour*, Executive Director, Australian Open Access Strategy
Group

*Leslie Chan*, University of Toronto, Scarborough & Founder, Bioline
International

*Martin Eve*, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at
Birkbeck, University of London

*Eve Gray*, Research Consultant in the IP Law Unit, University of Cape Town

*Melissa Hagemann*, Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundations

*Heather Joseph*, Executive Director, SPARC

*Iryna Kuchma*, Open Access Program Manager, EIFL

*Erin McKiernan*, Assistant Professor, National Autonomous University of
Mexico

*David Prosser*, Executive Director, Research Libraries UK

*Kathleen Shearer*, Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access
Repositories

*Nick Shockey*, Director, Right to Research Coalition

*Peter Suber*, Director, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication

*Jan Velterop*, Senior Consultant, Open Access/Scholarly Publishing

*Iara Vidal*, PhD in Information Science, Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro


For more information, please visit the BOAI 15 website
<http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai15-1>.
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