The Budapest Open Access Initiative was a small gathering hosted by the Open Society Institute in 2001. This small gathering of individuals is recognised as one of the major historical, and defining, events of the open access movement. The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a coordinating body, started in early 1994, of the national Soros Foundations, especially in Eastern Europe, which spends money donated by billionaire philanthropist George Soros. ... Open access (OA) is scholarly, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article]s, made freely available to anyone, anywhere over the world wide web. ...
The BudapestOpenAccessInitiative was a conference launched by the Open Society Institute on February 14th, 2002.
This small gathering of individuals is recognised as one of the major historical, and defining, events of the openaccess movement.
The opening sentence of the BudapestOpenAccessInitiative encapsulates what the openaccess movement is all about, and what its potential is: "An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good." The old tradition is academic scholars giving away the results of their research.
Openaccess is the subject of much discussion amongst academics, librarians, university administrators, and government officials at the moment.
Openaccess includes both the authors' general agreement to a work's free distribution and the implementation of a suitable (technical) infrastructure that allows for such a distribution.
Openaccess to scholarly research is important to the public, for a number of reasons.
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