Budapest Open Access Initiative

🎉As we celebrate the BOAI's 24th anniversary, check out what we've been up to in our first year having transitioned the initiative into an org to advocate for equitable OA.
#EquitableOA
#OpenAccess
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International Open Access Week International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open Acce...

Save the Date: International #OpenAccess Week will be October 19-25, 2026. #OAWeek is an opportunity to join together, take action & raise awareness of the benefits of openly sharing knowledge. www.openaccessweek.org

1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit orgs to take over the Open Access Tracking Project ( #OATP, @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy ) and the open-source software on which it runs.

Details in this Google doc:
bit.ly/TransferOATP

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm

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Critical new resource from @sparcopen.bsky.social on providing alternative access after Big Deal cancellations.

The Drain of Scientific Publishing The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

‪"Platforms such as SciELO, Redalyc, Latindex or AJOL offer quality, community-governed alternatives ... Yet, these regional models remain undervalued in evaluation systems shaped by Northern priorities, perpetuating global inequities in defining research quality."

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Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science Open access is about unlocking research and making scientific knowledge freely available to everyone. For Wikipedians, it’s not an abstract ideal—it’s essential to ensuring people can find reliable…

Check out our post on strengthening Wikimedia collaborations with and for Open Science published today on DIFF: News from Wikimedia movement -

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If you missed our recent webinar on best practices for no-fee #OA journals, check out our blog post, which also describes a new project we're developing to Map Institutional Investments in Equitable OA: www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/best-pr...

CommonsDB - Meta-Wiki

CommonsDB, a new registry that enables users to verify the rights status of online images

Great tool in the making presented @ Wiki GLAM in Lisbon today

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsDB

As we close out #OpenAccessWeek, read about our work to strengthen collaborations betw the Open Science & Wikimedia communities through the development of an Open Science Wiki Community. We invite you to join us! @ericluth.bsky.social

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In celebration of #OAWeek2025, please join us for the third event in our series of webinars focused on protecting the no-fee #OA model in Latin America! Simultaneous translation in Spanish, Portuguese & English will be provided. Sign up details below.

We will introduce the idea of the development of a resource to show institutional investment in the no-fee OA model to recognize those institutions that are supporting this equitable model and encourage others to do so. All interested will be invited to join a Working Group.

Join us during #OAWeek for a Free Webinar on Best Practices for No-Fee OA Journals in Latin America. @ariannabec.bsky.social will moderate an all-star panel. Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish, Portuguese & English will be provided.

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Really enjoyed discussing best practices for equitable OA at yesterday's Technical Meeting of @latindex.bsky.social. It was a wonderful opportunity to engage with the organization & representatives from the 23 countries within their network on the future of Ibero-American scientific publications.

The MetaROR Publish-Review-Curate Model: our experience as authors | Open Science NL As professionals working in open science and scholarly communication reform, we believe in practicing what we preach. That’s why we recently chose to publish an article using the…

QSS is now accepting articles that have gone through independent, open peer review via MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR). The authors of an article on tracking transformative agreements through open metadata shared their experiences using MetaROR's Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model:

New policy paper for a general scientific research exception Today, COMMUNIA releases Policy Paper #23 for a general scientific research exception (also available as a PDF file), advocating for a comprehensive overhaul of the copyright framework for research us...

🔍 New @communia.bsky.social Policy Paper #23 advocates for copyright reform with a mandatory research exception. This would help build a borderless European Research Area by removing barriers to accessing and sharing resources across Member States. Read more: communia-association.org/2025/09/10/n...

El webinar plantea la correlación entre la adopción de los APC y el auge de la publicación en inglés en Latinoamérica.

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O webinar discute a correlação entre a adoção de APCs e a ascensão da publicação em língua inglesa na América Latina.

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🔍Read about our recent discussion highlighting the need to protect the Latin American model of no-fee OA journals. The webinar focused on Brazil & videos are available in English, Spanish & Portuguese. #OpenAccess 🌎

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"Moving from pay-to-read to pay-to-publish has been devastating for us in Africa. Many APCs are equal to an annual salary for a junior researcher" Evelyn Gitau, Science for Africa during this great discussion at the Science Summit event.sciencesummitnyc.org/science-summ...

Lessons for the Global Transition to Equitable Open Access to Research – Open Future Open Access has transformed research accessibility, making half of all articles freely available. However, barriers to publishing persist. This paper examines equitable solutions for both accessing an...

This was my message in the article, Lessons Global Transition to Equitable OA.

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Point of View: How the Global South is reshaping scholarly communication Publishing initiatives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are promoting diamond open access, multilingualism, and non-profit, scholarly-led governance structures.

100% agree with these authors who highlight, in @elife.bsky.social "that the Global South’s approach (to OA) offers a blueprint for a fairer, more inclusive, and more just academic publishing ecosystem."

elifesciences.org/articles/108...

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show: Episode 649: Global Equitable Open Access Guest: Melissa Hagemann, Director of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), discussing her paper .  First broadcast August 1 2025. Transcript at   Playlist "And that is what we call an...

Check out the BOAI's Melissa Hagemann, as she talks with Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show about Global Equitable #OpenAccess. Fun format of weaving music about the theme in with the interview. 

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Highlighting the Need to Protect the Diamond Open Access Model in Latin America / Destacando a Necessidade de Proteger o Modelo de Acesso Aberto Diamante na... Second Webinar in Series Highlighting the Need to Protect the Diamond Open Access Model in Latin America / Segundo Webinar da Série Destacando a Necessidade de Proteger o Modelo de Acesso Aberto Diama...

Don't miss today's webinar! Discussion will highlight the need to protect the Diamond #OA model in Latin America, and will be moderated by Bianca Amaro of the Braz Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation.

Interpretation in Portuguese, Spanish & English.

Link to register: tinyurl.com/mvm4rxka

Register now to attend Wikimania Nairobi! Registration for Wikimania 2025, happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online, is now open! Join us from August 6 through August 9 as we celebrate 20 years of Wikimania.This year, in-person capacity is …

Tomorrow the BOAI's @melissahagemann.bsky.social will lead two sessions at #Wikimania2025:

* Lessons for the Global Transition to Equitable OA, 8:45 EDT

* Open Science for Wikimedians: Lessons learned and potential next steps, 9:15 EDT

Registration is free!
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🌍Join us next week at Wikimania! The BOAI will lead 2 sessions on August 7th -

* Lessons for the Global Transition to Equitable OA 

* Open Science for Wikimedians: Lessons learned and potential next steps 

Virtual participation is free, register today! wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Re...

Exploring Common Governance for Open Knowledge - Video Recording Now Available

📺 Missed our "Exploring Common Governance for Open Knowledge" event?
Watch the recording with @melissahagemann.bsky.social, @samuelmoore.org, @alek.bsky.social, and participants discussing equitable Open Access, AI in scholarship, and open infrastructure challenges.

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Join @samuelmoore.org and the BOAI's @melissahagemann.bsky.social next Monday to discuss their work as fellows with @openfuture.bsky.social. Melissa will share insights into her research on lessons for the global 🌍transition to equitable #OpenAccess.

Thanks to @sparcopen.bsky.social for your leadership over the past 20+years to bring this policy into effect!

Looking forward to this kick-off event for CC signals, and espeically the prospect of how CC signals can support the #OpenAccess community in the age of AI!

Excited to see this paper from Emily Choynowski, as there is so much the 🌍 #OA community can learn from examining how OA is developing outside Europe & North America. Our work is strengthened through our strategic partnership with @forumforopen.bsky.social.

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