Ten Years of Open Access – and how to celebrate the wiki way

“Ten years ago, the Budapest Open Access Initiative went public by inviting individuals and organizations to sign a statement in support of Open Access to the scholarly literature... As of today, 5567 individuals and 604 organizations have added their names to the declaration... In essence, the declaration recommends to put scholarly communications under a Creative Commons Attribution License by default, except that such licenses didn’t exist at the time. It is an explicit statement that restrictions like Share-Alike, Non-Commercialor Non-Derivative are not to be considered Open Access (contrary to the marketing speak of a number of publishers), as they raise legal barriers that limit reuse... The original motivation behind the quest for Open Access... was to provide researchers with access to the research literature... the implementation of the Budapest principles by publishers like BioMed Central, PLoS, Hindawi, Frontiers, Copernicus, Pensoft and a growing number of others brought about a wealth of instances of scholarly communication that can be used for other purposes... Today and tomorrow, leaders of the Open Access movement are meeting in Budapest ...to hash out, for the next decade of Open Access, recommendations... The wiki way of celebrating is to join WikiProject Open Access (recently started by Blue Rasberry)... as well as exploring the reuse of Open Access materials. One way of doing this is via the Open Access File of the Day... another by reusing entire Open-Access articles, for which Wikimedia Germanyapproved a pilot project yesterday.”