BOAI Organization

"The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) offered the first definition of open access (OA), proposed complementary strategies for realizing OA, and launched a worldwide campaign for OA to all new peer-reviewed research. Through consultations and convenings, the BOAI has provided critical global strategies which have been updated regularly over the past twenty years. Our recent BOAI20 Recommendations emphasize that OA is not an end in itself, but a means to other ends –  above all, to the equity, quality, usability, and sustainability of research. As a result, the BOAI offers a unique platform for discussions on OA strategies and their implementation.

Building on the legacy of the BOAI, the initiative is in the process of transitioning to play a more active role within the Access to Knowledge movement. The new organization will foster the development of equitable open access 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...."