Budapest Open Access Initiative

The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) arises from a small but lively meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on 1-2 December 2001. It was the first major declaration of support for open access and has been signed by over 5,818 individuals (researchers, publishers) and organisations (universities, laboratories, libraries, foundations, journals, learned societies, and kindred open-access initiatives) from around the world.

The link address is: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml