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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

Update. The #BOAI is transitioning into an organization, BOAI Org.

"The new organization will foster the development of equitable #OpenAccess and support the adoption of policies, practices and sustainability models that make scholarly communications free to read and publish. The BOAI Org will provide support and guidance to accelerate the implementation of our 20th Anniversary Recommendations which address the systemic problems that obstruct progress towards the realization of our original vision that 'an old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good.'"

Read today's announcement for more on the org's plans and priorities.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-transitioning-to-organization-to-support-the-development-of-equitable-open-access/

(Disclosure: I'm on the steering committee.)

#BOAI20 #BOAI_Org #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

Update with a comment.

Don't throw in the towel. First, reform research #assessment to move away from journal impact factors (#JIFs) and to pay more attention to the quality of research than the number of publications or where they published. Second, move away from #APCs. To make research #OpenAccess, favor no-APC #GreenOA and #DiamondOA over APC-based varieties.

BTW, the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement makes both these recommendations. (Disclosure: I was a co-author.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

@tamiel
Absolutely. That's why the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement doesn't call them "transformative". For its full argument against them, see Recommendation 4. (Disclosure: I was a co-author.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

Update. For a critique of "transformative" or read-and-publish agreements, see Recommendation 4 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement. (Disclosure: I helped write this.) https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#APCs #BOAI #BOAI20 #DiamondOA #GreenOA #OpenAccess
@openscience

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

Update. The @BOAI (#BOAI) just joined #Mastodon. Please consider following it.

Valentine's Day is also the anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, whose principles RePEc follows

https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

#dailyRePEc #BOAI

Today is the 22d 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/

They focus on:
1. Moving to #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my association with both #BOAI and #BOAI20.

Happy #Valentine's Day to all who are working for #OpenAccess worldwide.

Here's a #ThrowbackThursday post from #OAWeek!

Thanks @sparc for sharing, reminding us of the ongoing work & relationships involved in making #OpenAccess a fair & sustainable approach to public knowledge - & the roads we're building with quality, trusted, community-driven #OpenInfrastructure.

L to R

* Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander, #ScholCommLab / @PublicKnowledgeProject

* Melissa Hagemann @MelissaHagemann of #BOAI

* Heather Joseph @hjoseph, SPARC

* Ross Mounce @rmounce, #ArcadiaFund

3/ See the critique of #APCs in Recommendation 3 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement (which I helped write).
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

The president for research at #SpringerNature offers a #publisher-based defense of transformative agreements (aka #ReadAndPublish agreements) without confronting any of the serious objections to them.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/transformative-agreements-are-now-key-open-access

For some of the serious objections to them, see e.g. the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, esp Recommendation 4 ("move away from read-and-publish agreements"). Disclosure: I helped write these objections.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

See the #BOAI20, Recommendations 3 & 3.7: "We recommend moving away from article processing charges (#APCs). Viable alternatives have long existed, but they are systematically under-noticed, under-discussed, under-appreciated, under-funded, and under-used…Shifting resources from APC-based OA to #green & #diamond OA will enfranchise more voices in global research without reducing the quality or openness of research."
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #GreenOA #DiamondOA

@mike
Update.

Those are the two largest reasons. For several others that are smaller or less direct, see the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations, Recommendation 3 (and its 13 sub-points).
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

Update. Note that a year ago this month the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations came to the same conclusions on #APCs and #ReadAndPublish agreements. (See recommendations 3 & 4.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

Update. Remember this from the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations (section 3.2): "The opacity of APCs supports APC inflation and payments far in excess of services rendered."
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20 #APCs

@sje
Hear hear. For more arguments against transformative agreements, see Recommendation 4 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI, #BOAI20

Today is the 21st birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative…
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

…and the first birthday of its 20th anniversary recommendations.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

I'm proud of my association with both.

Happy #Valentine's Day to all who are working for #OpenAccess worldwide.

#BOAI, #BOAI20

@darmont @mart1oeil après il y a gold et gold : certains modèles de gold étaient nativement "fair", avec des APC correspondant à une juste rétribution des coûts éditoriaux.
Le pire sont les modèles de Pay to Open des grands éditeurs appliqués à des revues qui restent hybrides. D'ailleurs le thésaurus de la SO n'est pas clair sur l'hybride qui est intégré dans la définition du gold comme sous-genre. C'est à mon sens une erreur.
Le Gold historique pensé par #BOAI = revues entièrement #openaccess

@meliimming @waltcrawford @sennoma
No, "green" & "gold" were introduced together.

The Feb 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative (#BOAI) distinguished the two paths to OA but didn't give them names. The terms were introduced as insider shorthand to facilitate talk about the two paths.

In my view — even taking into account my memories of the early days when the terms were new — they're arbitrary, like up quark & down quark. There's nothing green about green OA & nothing gold about gold OA.