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  1. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    Today is the 24th birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    Best known for catalyzing the #OpenAccess movement in 2002, the BOAI has been continuously active and formed a nonprofit organization just last year.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    See the org's progress report on its first year.
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    The latest version of the BOAI recommendations is its 20th anniversary statement.
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    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.

    #openaccess #openinfrastructure #researchassessment #apcs #readandpublish #boai
  2. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    "For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?"
    katinamagazine.org/content/art

    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.
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    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

    #apcs #readandpublish #openaccess #greenoa #diamondoa #boai20
  3. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    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.
    onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

    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.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI #BOAI20 #DEI #Publishing #ScholComm

    #wiley #openaccess #latinamerica #readandpublish #apcs #boai
  4. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    Peter Barr explains why three UK #universities recently cancelled their #Elsevier #ReadAndPublish agreements and why these deals are unsustainable.
    universityworldnews.com/post.p

    PS: My own objections to these deals overlap significantly with Barr's. See the #BOAI20 Recommendation 4 ("Move away from read-and-publish agreements").
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #Cancellations #OpenAccess #ScholComm

    #Academia
    @academicchatter

    #universities #elsevier #readandpublish #boai20 #cancellations #openaccess
  5. petersuber @[email protected] ·

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

    #BOAI20 #BOAI_Org #ScholComm

    #boai #openaccess #boai20 #scholcomm #boai_org
  6. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    Today is the 23d birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    BOAI is still active and issued its 20th anniversary recommendations in 2022.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    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.

    #openinfrastructure #researchassessment #apcs #readandpublish #boai #boai10
  7. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    New study: "Current levels of implementation of #transformative agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to full #OpenAccess."
    doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00348

    Reminder from the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, section 4.6: "Paying #APCs at hybrid journals [through these agreements] pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full #OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI20 #ReadAndPublish #ScholComm

    #transformative #openaccess #apcs #oa #boai20 #readandpublish
  8. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    New study: "Our analysis demonstrates that research institutions seem to be ‘trapped’ in #transformative agreements [aka #ReadAndPublish agreements]. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully #OpenAccess world, academia is stuck in the #hybrid system."
    cwts.nl/seminars/announcements

    Reminder from the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, section 4.6: "Journals covered by [transformative or read-and-publish] agreements are…hybrid journals…Paying #APCs at hybrid journals [through these agreements] pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full #OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI20 #ScholComm

    #boai20 #transformative #readandpublish #openaccess #hybrid #apcs
  9. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    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.)
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI #BOAI20

    #assessment #jifs #apcs #openaccess #greenoa #diamondoa
  10. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    New study: "Research institutions seem to be 'trapped' in #TransformativeAgreements. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully #OpenAccess world, academia is stuck in the #hybrid system."
    arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224

    PS: This confirms the #BOAI20 diagnosis (March 2022): "Paying #APCs at hybrid journals pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #ReadAndPublish

    #transformativeagreements #openaccess #hybrid #boai20 #apcs #readandpublish
  11. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    @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.)
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI #BOAI20

    #boai #boai20
  12. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    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.) budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

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

    #apcs #boai #boai20 #diamondoa #greenoa #openaccess
  13. petersuber @[email protected] ·

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

    “#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

    #boai #boai20 #openaccess #oa
  14. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    @mike @paulwalk
    #Plan_S put a time limit on its support for TAs (end of 2024). But that only applies to the funders who belong to #cOAlition_S. It doesn't apply to the many universities signing this kind of agreement. The uni agreements expire after x years (usually 3) but can be renegotiated and renewed indefinitely.

    For my objections to these agreements, see #BOAI20, Recommendation 4.
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    #plan_s #coalition_s #boai20
  15. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    Today is the 22d birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    BOAI is still active and issued its 20th anniversary recommendations in 2022.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    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.

    #openinfrastructure #researchassessment #apcs #readandpublish #valentine #openaccess
  16. petersuber @[email protected] ·

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

    #BOAI #BOAI20

    #boai20 #boai #apcs
  17. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    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.
    timeshighereducation.com/blog/

    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.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI #BOAI20

    #boai20 #boai #readandpublish #springernature #publisher
  18. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    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."
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI #GreenOA #DiamondOA

    #diamondoa #greenoa #apcs #boai20 #boai #diamond
  19. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    @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).
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI #BOAI20

    #boai20 #boai
  20. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    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.)
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI #BOAI20

    #boai20 #boai #readandpublish #apcs
  21. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    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."
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI #BOAI20 #APCs

    #apcs #boai20 #boai
  22. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    @sje
    Hear hear. For more arguments against transformative agreements, see Recommendation 4 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #BOAI, #BOAI20

    #boai20 #boai
  23. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    Today is the 21st birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative…
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    …and the first birthday of its 20th anniversary recommendations.
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    I'm proud of my association with both.

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

    #BOAI, #BOAI20

    #boai20 #boai #openaccess #valentine
  24. petersuber @[email protected] ·

    The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (aka All European Academies, #ALLEA) just released an excellent critique of #APCs and #transformative (read-and-publish) agreements, building up to an excellent set of recommendations, including #RightsRetention.
    allea.org/wp-content/uploads/2

    PS: It's similar in these ways to #BOAI20.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    #OpenAccess #Copyright #ScholComm

    #scholcomm #copyright #openaccess #boai20 #rightsretention #transformative
  25. Open Science ✅ @[email protected] ·

    #OSICU2022
    Tetiana Yaroshenko talks about #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData and the 20th anniversary of #BudapestOpenAccessInitiative. How it was and where we are going budapestopenaccessinitiative.o acknowledges the role #OpenSocietyFoundations
    played in the OA movement #BOAI20 #OAWeek #Science #News

    #osicu2022 #openaccess #openscience #opendata #budapestopenaccessinitiative #opensocietyfoundations