Budapest Open Access Initiative
The Budapest Open Access Initiative is an interdisciplinary initiative of European and American scientists with the aim of making research results freely accessible to the public.
It emerged from a conference in Budapest organized by the Open Society Institute (OSI) in December 2001. In the Berlin Declaration of October 23, 2003, the initiative and major scientific organizations called on all researchers and leaders of research projects to make the results of their work available on the Internet , including the right to freely use, copy and forward the information.
The initiative bundles the international efforts to open access , free online access to scientific literature in specialist journals and other forms of publication . It represents initiatives from various disciplines, nations and with different points of view. The initiative discusses their common goals and looks for the broadest and most effective strategies possible to soon make the advantages of Open Access widely available for research, its institutions and research funds. The economic aspects of open access publishing and the resulting problems for academic publishers are also important topics for discussion.
The Budapest Open Access movement is a declaration of principle , a declaration of possible strategies and a commitment by the participants. It was signed by the participants in the Budapest meeting and since then by a steadily growing number of people and organizations from many countries and disciplines: scientists, universities , academies, libraries , funding agencies, publishers, specialist journals, learned societies and open access initiatives. In terms of content, the Budapest Declaration of Principles advocates both the " Green Way " (self-archiving of published articles) and the " Golden Way " (original open access journals). The movement invites all members of the scientific community worldwide to support and participate in the initiative.
literature
- Free knowledge for everyone , FAZ from September 9, 2004, p. 36 (science)
Web links
- Budapest Open Access Initiative
- Boost for research paper access , BBC News , February 14, 2002