Budapest Open Access Initiative

Participants at meeting in Budapest, December 1, 2001

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 conference convened in Budapest 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 has been recognised 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]

  1. ^ "Budapest Open Access Initiative, FAQ". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  2. ^ "Read the Budapest Open Access Initiative". www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-10. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  3. ^ Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data in China ... 8 September 2006. doi:10.17226/11710. ISBN 9780309180399. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  4. ^ Melissa Hagemann (13 February 2012). "Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access". opensocietyfoundations.org. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  5. ^ "Definition of Budapest compliant open access". Open Access Working Group. 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  6. ^ Bailey, Jr., Charles W. (March 2017). "An Introduction to Open Access" (PDF). Informatics Studies. 4 (1): 43–52 – via e-LIS.
  7. ^ "Budapest Open Access Initiative Translations". www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  8. ^ "Ten years on from the Budapest Open Access Initiative". www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  9. ^ "BOAI". Retrieved 11 February 2015.