Important Open Access Declarations

2022 Budapest Declaration (Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI))

“Open Access” [to peer-reviewed research literature] means “its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles; crawl them for indexing; pass them as data to software; or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

*BOAI10,
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/

2003 Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing

A statement adopted at the meeting on Open Access held in Bethesda in April 2003.
The statement includes the “Statement of the Institutions and Funding Agencies Working Group,” which indicates that research institutions and funding agencies should encourage their affiliated researchers or grant recipients to cooperate with open access, cover open access publication costs, evaluate research based on the papers themselves rather than the journals in which they are published, and include contributions to open access in researcher evaluations.

2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities)

The Max Planck Society and European Cultural Heritage Online published the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.”