#BOAI

2025-02-14

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

2025-02-14

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.

2024-12-19

"What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?"
theverge.com/24321569/internet

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]?"
dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4552

2024-12-18

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

George Macgregorg3om4c@code4lib.social
2024-11-25

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 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1388647 #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenScience #scholcomm #BOAI

2024-09-05

@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.)
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#BOAI #BOAI20

2024-07-20

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

2024-03-15

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

2024-02-14

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

2024-02-14

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

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#dailyRePEc #BOAI

2024-02-14

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.

Public Knowledge ProjectPublicKnowledgeProject
2023-11-23

Here's a post from !

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

L to R

* Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander, / @PublicKnowledgeProject

* Melissa Hagemann @MelissaHagemann of

* Heather Joseph @hjoseph, SPARC

* Ross Mounce @rmounce,

Open Access Week 2023, October 23 - 29

Theme: Community over Commercialization

Left to right

* Juan Pablo Alperin, ScholCommLab (SFU) / Public Knowledge Project

* Melissa Hagemann, BOAI

* Heather Joseph, SPARC

* Ross Mounce, Arcadia Fund
2023-09-10

3/ See the critique of #APCs in Recommendation 3 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement (which I helped write).
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#BOAI #BOAI20

2023-07-14

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

2023-04-26

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

2023-03-22

@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

2023-03-21

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

2023-03-15

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."
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#BOAI #BOAI20 #APCs

2023-02-20

@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

2023-02-14

Today is the 21st birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative…
budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

…and the first birthday of its 20th anniversary recommendations.
budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

I'm proud of my association with both.

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

#BOAI, #BOAI20

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