“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 t
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