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10th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)

At a time when Open Access is turning 10 years old (Bethesda Statement and Berlin Declaration will both be 10 next year), Feb 14th, 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which was the result of a "small but lively meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2, 2001". Open Access has advanced a lot in a rather short period of time (read article "Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access" by Melissa Hagemann), but there is still a long way ahead too.