“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good.” - The Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002
Fifteen years ago, the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) brought together a diverse group of stakeholders and launched a worldwide campaign for open access (OA) to all new peer-reviewed research. The BOAI deliberately drew together existing projects to explore how they might “work together to achieve broader, deeper, and faster success.”
Juan Pablo Alperin, Assistant Professor and an Associate Director of the Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University
Virginia Barbour, Executive Director, Australian Open Access Strategy Group
Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Scarborough & Founder, Bioline International
Martin Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London
Eve Gray, Research Consultant in the IP Law Unit, University of Cape Town
Melissa Hagemann, Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundations
Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC
Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Program Director, EIFL
Erin McKiernan, Assistant Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico
David Prosser, Executive Director, Research Libraries UK
Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories
Nick Shockey, Director, Right to Research Coalition
Peter Suber, Director, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication
Jan Velterop, Senior Consultant, Open Access/Scholarly Publishing
Iara Vidal, PhD in Information Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro