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April 12, 2005 |
Open Access Projects Supported by OSI
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December 17, 2004 |
Grants Awarded for Open Access Journals
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September 7, 2004 |
Updated Guide to Institutional Repository Software
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The Budapest Open Access Initiative arises from a small but lively meeting
convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2,
2001. The purpose of the meeting was to accelerate progress in the international
effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available
on the internet. The participants represented many points of view, many
academic disciplines, and many nations, and had experience with many of
the ongoing initiatives that make up the open access movement. In Budapest
they explored how the separate initiatives could work together to achieve
broader, deeper, and faster success. They explored the most effective
and affordable strategies for serving the interests of research, researchers,
and the institutions and societies that support research. Finally, they
explored how OSI and other foundations could use their resources most
productively to aid the transition to open access and to make open-access
publishing economically self-sustaining. The result is the Budapest Open
Access Initiative. It is at once a statement of principle, a statement
of strategy, and a statement of commitment.
The initiative has been signed by the Budapest
participants and a growing number of individuals and organizations from
around the world who represent researchers, universities, laboratories,
libraries, foundations, journals, publishers, learned societies, and kindred
open-access initiatives. We invite the signatures, support, and participation
of the entire world scientific and scholarly community.
E-mail: openaccess@soros.org.
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