<div dir="ltr"><div class="">Today is the 13th anniversary of the original<span class="" id="parent-fieldname-title"> Budapest Open Access Initiative </span>(BOAI) public statement <a href="http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read">http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read</a> and the 3d anniversary of its 10th anniversary update <span class="" id="parent-fieldname-title">Ten years on from the Budapest Open Access Initiative: setting the default to open
</span> <a href="http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations">http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations</a>. <br><br><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/109377556796183035206" class="">Peter Suber</a> writes in his Happy birthday to the Budapest Open Access Initiative post: <br><br>"As
we put it in the 10th anniversary statement, the BOAI "didn't invent
the idea of OA. On the contrary, it deliberately drew together existing
projects to explore how they might 'work together to achieve broader,
deeper, and faster success.' But the BOAI was the first initiative to
use the term 'open access' for this purpose, the first to articulate a
public definition, the first to propose complementary strategies for
realizing OA, the first to generalize the call for OA to all disciplines
and countries, and the first to be accompanied by significant funding."<br><br><i>Happy Valentines Day</i> to all who are working for OA worldwide!"<br><br>(<a href="https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/Zjom4LyUXLM">https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/Zjom4LyUXLM</a>)<br><br><a rel="nofollow" class="" href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23oa"> </a><a href="https://t.co/ftgai2P87z" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" class="" target="_blank" title="https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/Zjom4LyUXLM"><span class=""></span><span class=""></span></a></div></div>