Today is the 24th birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

Best known for catalyzing the #OpenAccess movement in 2002, the BOAI has been continuously active and formed a nonprofit organization just last year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-transitioning-to-organization-to-support-the-development-of-equitable-open-access/

See the org's progress report on its first year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-celebrates-anniversary-and-reflects-on-progress-of-first-year-as-an-organization/

The latest version of the BOAI recommendations is its 20th anniversary statement.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

In contrast to the earlier BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focuses on a small number of top priorities:

1. Adopting #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my contributions to #BOAI (2002), #BOAI10 (2012), and #BOAI20 (2022), and honored to serve on the org steering committee.

Happy #ValentinesDay to all who work for #OpenAccess worldwide.

Unclear on the concept

This editorial in a #Wiley journal praises Wiley for promoting equitable #OpenAccess publishing in #LatinAmerica through #ReadAndPublish agreements that discount #APCs in proportion to national GDP.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71964

PS: To me, equitable OA moves 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 from both APCs and read-and-publish agreements. For the arguments, see the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, especially recommendations 3 and 4.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20 #DEI #Publishing #ScholComm

Today is the 23d birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

BOAI is still active and issued its 20th anniversary recommendations in 2022.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

Unlike previous BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focused on just a small number of top priorities:

1. Adopting #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my association with the #BOAI, #BOAI10, and #BOAI20.

Happy #ValentinesDay to all who are working for #OpenAccess worldwide.

"What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?"
https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture

FYI, I wrote about a more drastic version of this a month after the September 11 (2001) attacks on the US. It was for my newsletter on #OpenAccess, which (before the #BOAI introduced the term #OA) I then called #FreeOnlineScholarship (#FOS). In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, many credible analysts predicted systematic attacks on the internet itself.

"What will it profit you to gain [free online scholarship] and lose your very [connectivity]?"
https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4552031

A useful reminder that negotiations with academic big #publishers, especially with so-called 'Next Generation OA' negotiations on the horizon, need to seek the removal of user #surveillance as a basic academic freedom. This seems even more necessary for any of this OA window dressing to at all correspond with BOAI20 aspirations.

Navigating Risk in Vendor Data #Privacy Practices: An Analysis of... #SpringerLink https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13886472 #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenScience #scholcomm #BOAI

Thanks to @MelissaHagemann for her new blog post on the 20th anniversary recommendations from the Budapest Open Access Initiative (@BOAI).
https://sparcopen.org/news/2024/open-access-as-a-means-to-equity/

“#OpenAccess (#OA) is not an end in itself, but a means to other ends, above all, to the equity, quality, usability, and sustainability of research. We must assess the growth of OA against the gains and losses for these further ends.”

(Disclosure: I participated in drafting the recommendations.)

#BOAI #BOAI20