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Update. The #BOAI is transitioning into an organization, BOAI Org.

"The new organization will foster the development of equitable #OpenAccess 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.'"

Read today's announcement for more on the org's plans and priorities.
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(Disclosure: I'm on the steering committee.)

www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.orgBOAI Transitioning to Organization to Support the Development of Equitable Open Access – Budapest Open Access Initiative
#BOAI20#BOAI_Org#ScholComm
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Today is the 23d birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
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BOAI is still active and issued its 20th anniversary recommendations in 2022.
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Unlike previous BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focused on just a small number of top priorities:

1. Adopting #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my association with the #BOAI, #BOAI10, and #BOAI20.

Happy #ValentinesDay to all who are working for #OpenAccess worldwide.

www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.orgRead the Declaration – Budapest Open Access Initiative
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petersuber

New study: "Current levels of implementation of #transformative agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to full #OpenAccess."
doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00348

Reminder from the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, section 4.6: "Paying #APCs at hybrid journals [through these agreements] pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full #OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
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#BOAI20#ReadAndPublish#ScholComm
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New study: "Our analysis demonstrates that research institutions seem to be ‘trapped’ in #transformative agreements [aka #ReadAndPublish agreements]. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully #OpenAccess world, academia is stuck in the #hybrid system."
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Reminder from the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, section 4.6: "Journals covered by [transformative or read-and-publish] agreements are…hybrid journals…Paying #APCs at hybrid journals [through these agreements] pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full #OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
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#BOAI20#ScholComm
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Taking this a bit further:

From the U of Surrey: "The university continuously reviews all it commercial subscriptions for value for money, and…concluded that the Jisc-negotiated ‘Read and Publish’ deal with Elsevier was 'not sustainable in the current financial climate'."
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From the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, section 4.3: Read-and-publish agreements "are unsustainable, by paying more than necessary and putting short-term growth ahead of long-term growth."
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Update with a comment.

Don't throw in the towel. First, reform research #assessment to move away from journal impact factors (#JIFs) and to pay more attention to the quality of research than the number of publications or where they published. Second, move away from #APCs. To make research #OpenAccess, favor no-APC #GreenOA and #DiamondOA over APC-based varieties.

BTW, the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement makes both these recommendations. (Disclosure: I was a co-author.)
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www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.orgBOAI20 – Budapest Open Access Initiative
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New study: "Research institutions seem to be 'trapped' in #TransformativeAgreements. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully #OpenAccess world, academia is stuck in the #hybrid system."
arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224

PS: This confirms the #BOAI20 diagnosis (March 2022): "Paying #APCs at hybrid journals pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
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arXiv.orgTrapped in Transformative Agreements? A Multifaceted Analysis of >1,000 ContractsTransformative agreements between academic publishers and research institutions are ubiquitous. The 'Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges' (ESAC) Initiative lists more than 1,000 contracts in its database. We make use of this unique dataset by web-scraping the details of every contract to substantially expand the overview spreadsheet provided by the ESAC Initiative. Based on that hitherto unused data source, we combine qualitative and quantitative methods to conduct an in-depth analysis of the contract characteristics and the TA landscape. Our analysis demonstrates that research institutions seem to be 'trapped' in transformative agreements. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully Open Access world, academia is stuck in the hybrid system. This endows the legacy (non-Open Access) publishing houses with substantial market power. It raises entry barriers, lowers competition, and increases costs for libraries and universities.
#ReadAndPublish
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I like the Open Source Pledge.
osspledge.com/

If your institution uses #OpenSource software, it should chip in to pay for it.

We can extend the idea to the #OpenInfrastructure supporting #OpenAccess to research. First, institutions should use open rather than proprietary #infrastructure (see e.g. the #BOAI20, Recommendation 1). Second, when they use it, they should chip in to pay for it.

@openscience

osspledge.comOpen Source PledgeOur companies feast year after year at the Open Source table. It's time to settle up.
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One of the strongest objections to #APCs is that they exclude large numbers of scholarly authors on economic grounds, unrelated to the merit of their work. (See e.g. the #BOAI20, recommendation 3.)

A new study argues that this exclusion shows up in #CitationBias against authors from the #GlobalSouth. The bias itself is well-documented and the authors argue that the rise of APCs is one factor in explaining it.
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2/ This one of those good ideas that would benefit everyone but for which nearly everyone finds it hard to go first. (For many people this is the definition of a #CollectiveAction problem.)

It would contribute in a small way to the largest need of research #assessment reform, namely (in the words of #BOAI20), "for research assessment committees to pay less attention to where research is published and more attention to the quality of research itself."
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www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.orgBOAI20 – Budapest Open Access Initiative
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Congratulations to a Faculty Committee at the University of Rhode Island for calling for the closure of the university's #OpenAccess Fund which supports APCs. The Committee argues that "rather than covering APC expenses of a small number of URI faculty, OA Fund resources should be redirected toward efforts that will have greater impact."

These actions align with the #BOAI20 Recommendations to move away from APCs.

Full report: files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED6

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Thanks to @MelissaHagemann for her new blog post on the 20th anniversary recommendations from the Budapest Open Access Initiative (@BOAI).
sparcopen.org/news/2024/open-a

“#OpenAccess (#OA) is not an end in itself, but a means to other ends, above all, to the equity, quality, usability, and sustainability of research. We must assess the growth of OA against the gains and losses for these further ends.”

(Disclosure: I participated in drafting the recommendations.)

SPARC · Open Access as a Means to Equity: Progress, Challenges, and the Continued Role for the BOAI - SPARC
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@mike @paulwalk
#Plan_S put a time limit on its support for TAs (end of 2024). But that only applies to the funders who belong to #cOAlition_S. It doesn't apply to the many universities signing this kind of agreement. The uni agreements expire after x years (usually 3) but can be renegotiated and renewed indefinitely.

For my objections to these agreements, see #BOAI20, Recommendation 4.
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www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.orgBOAI20 – Budapest Open Access Initiative
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The BOAI's anniversary, and the work we have done to collaboratively develop updated recommendations, including the #BOAI20, is highlighted in this new post from @openfuture

"The BOAI shows that our activism can keep up with the rapidly changing world. That movement strategies can be kept alive and established through strong, participatory decision-making."

openfuture.eu/note/boai-turns-

Open FutureBOAI turns twenty-two – Open FutureThe Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) was launched twenty-two years ago, on February 14, 2002. The BOAI arose from a small meeting of researchers organized a few months earlier by the Open Society Foundations. The BOAI offered the first definition of Open Access and launched a worldwide campaign for Open Access to all new peer-reviewed […]
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