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.

"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair

PS: This article objects to #APCs and "transformative" (#ReadAndPublish) agreements, especially in the humanities. So far, so good. But then it leaves the false impression that all or most #OpenAccess falls into those two categories, which is false and harmful. It never mentions #GreenOA. It mentions #DiamondOA once, for books, and never for articles. It's strong on problems and very weak and even misleading on solutions.

I share the objections to APCs and read-and-publish agreements. I wrote stronger versions of them, extended to all disciplines, for the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

I'm in the humanities and (with the exception of one 1999 book) have made all my books and articles OA. I've never paid an APC and never will. I boycott APC-based publishers both as an author and referee and encourage others to do so.

Scholars in the humanities need accurate info about their OA options, not one-sided criticism of OA as such.

#BOAI20 #Humanities

Thank you Harry Warner for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing in Journal of Cell Science via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with University of Groningen @Bibliothecaris

Read Harry’s paper: https://bit.ly/4i3mInv

Is your institution participating? https://bit.ly/3O7BxGi

Thank you Adam Downie for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing in Biology Open via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with The University of Queensland. Read Adam’s paper: https://bit.ly/4hA9vm1

See if your institution is participating too: https://bit.ly/3O7BxGi

Thank you Adam Maclean for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in Development via our Read & Publish agreement with The University of Queensland.

See all institutions: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OA #OpenAccess #ReadAndPublish #Publishing #Biology #Research #Academia

Over 1,000 institutions in 55 countries are participating in our Read & Publish Open Access initiative.

Find out if your institution is included: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OpenAccess #OA #ReadAndPublish #Publishing #Academia #Science #Communication

Thank you Danilo Giacometti for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in Journal of Experimental Biology via our Read & Publish agreement with Brock University.

See all participating institutions: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OpenAccess #OA #ReadAndPublish #Research #Publishing #JEB #Academia

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

Thank you Lily Kelleher for sharing your experience of publishing in our journal
Biology Open.

Find out if your institution has an Open Access publishing agreement with us:

https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OpenAccess #OA #Publishing #Biology #Research #ReadAndPublish