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Budapest Open Access Initiative - to some extent it is another “petition” like the Public Library of Science in support of open access initiatives, but is backed by $3M grant from the entrepreneur and philanthropist George Soros.
Grants for open access journals and Institutional Memberships to BioMed Central for institutions in developing countries.
It gets its name from a meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) in December 2001. The purpose of the meeting was to “accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet.” The Open Society Institute is a body founded by George Soros.
The outcome which has become known as the Budapest Declaration was dated February 14, 2002.
It has been signed by dozens of institutions and hundreds of researchers.
The declaration does not oppose commercial publishing, but seeks an alternative system of free access journals and self archiving set up in parallel.
