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The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature,[1] which was released to the public on February 14, 2002.[2] 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.[3][4] This small gathering of individuals is recognized as one of the major defining events of the open access movement.[5][6] As of 2021, the text of the initiative had been translated to 13 languages.[7]
On the 10th anniversary of 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.[8][9]