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Anniversary of the BOAI, launch of the BOAI Forum	Peter Suber
	Feb 14, 2003 14:29 PST

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[Today is the first anniversary of the BOAI. To mark the occasion, it
launched a new discussion list, the BOAI-Forum, which I'll
moderate. Here's the first message from the list. If you'd like to
subscribe, first sign the BOAI <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/sign.shtml>
and then follow the link below to our web-based subscription form. --Peter.]

Dear Supporters of the Budapest Open Access Initiative,

The BOAI launched one year ago today, February 14, 2002. Since then we've
announced several new BOAI activities and funding programs. Today we're
launching the BOAI Forum, which will greatly facilitate our ability to make
future announcements and to collect the open-access wisdom of the worldwide
network of BOAI supporters.

Here are some details on the Forum as well as a summary of our first year's
activity.

-----

(1) The BOAI Forum

We're very pleased to announce the launch of this Forum. We'll use it to
spread BOAI news quickly and efficiently to those who most care to hear
about it. For example, we'll use it to announce new BOAI funding programs
and publications. We hope you'll use it to share news, details, and tips
about your own open-access projects. Over time this will allow us to
collect the hard-won experience of our subscribers in advancing the cause
of open-access research literature in all fields of science and scholarship.

To protect you against unwanted email, we did *not* automatically subscribe
you or other signatories to the new Forum. To subscribe to the forum,
simply fill in your email address on this page,
<http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f>. If you want to
unsubscribe later, just use the same form.

We expect this to be a low-traffic list, perhaps after an initial flurry of
contributions.

Subscriptions will be limited to those who have signed the BOAI public
statement. We'll soon have an archive of past postings which will be
readable by non-subscribers.

In the future we'll send BOAI announcements to the Forum subscribers, not
to the BOAI signatories. So to stay up to date with the initiative you
once supported with your signature, please subscribe to the Forum.

-----

(2) How can you celebrate the birthday of the BOAI?

* Subscribe to the BOAI Forum. (Remember that it's not automatic.)
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f

* Spread the word about the BOAI. Ask your colleagues and institution to sign.

* Talk to colleagues about the open-access projects, or impediments, in
your institution or discipline. Write about them. Applaud the progress,
identify the obstacles, answer the skeptics, and educate the next
generation of researchers.

* If you are participating in an open-access project, send the details to
the BOAI Forum. If you need advice, ask the knowledgeable subscribers of
the BOAI Forum.

* If you're not currently participating in an open-access project, consider
joining or starting one. Remember that the BOAI is not just a public
statement, now one year old. It's a continuing initiative trying to enlist
the assistance and participation of its signatories and trying to recruit
new signatories willing to help. Launch an open-access eprint archive at
your institution. Help launch an open-access journal or convert a
traditional journal. Archive your own papers, persuade your colleagues to
do the same, and persuade your institution to adopt a policy to encourage
it. If you're looking for other ideas, look at the BOAI list of ways to
advance the cause.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/help.shtml

-----

(3) Projects supported by the Open Society Institute's Open Access Program
in Year One

As you know, the Open Society Institute has allocated $3 million to support
specific BOAI-related projects. Here's a quick review of some of the
projects receiving funds in the first year of the initiative.

1. Development of open access business guides. The SPARC Consulting Group
has developed a Guide to Business Planning for Converting a
Subscription-based Journal to Open Access, and a Guide to Business Planning
for Launching a New Open Access Journal.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/index.shtml
For additional details, please see the recent press release:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=f67

2. Directory of open access journals will be produced and maintained by
the Lund University Library.
http://www.lub.lu.se/lucep/activities/doaj/index.html
For additional details, please see today's press release:
http://www.doaj.org/documents/press-release_030214_en.html

3. Pilot project to support authors from the OSI region to publish
articles in open access journals. 40 open access journals are taking part
in the pilot support scheme. The program will be continued in 2003.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml#journals

4. Pilot project to support BioMed Central (BMC) Institutional
Memberships, which will allow authors from institutions to publish articles
in BMC free of charge. Institutions within the OSI region can apply to OSI
for support. A total of 50 grants to institutions will be made through
this program. 12 institutions already received grants in 2002.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml#biomed

5. Workshop to discuss open access journals with learned society
publishers. OSI sponsored a workshop for the members of the UK-based
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) in
September 2002.
http://www.alpsp.org/s130902.htm

6. Conference of the Academies of Sciences to introduce the benefits of
open access publishing. The conference was held in Budapest from 16-18
January, 2003. 24 Academies from the former Soviet Union, Central and
Eastern Europe, and China participated.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/meeting.shtml

7. Support speakers and selected participants to attend international
conferences to spread awareness of the benefits of open access. OSI has
supported the attendance of speakers at various international conferences
including: the 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative, held at CERN
(http://library.cern.ch/Announcement.htm); and the First Nordic Conference
on Scholarly Communications (http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2002/).

8. Development of the Academic Contributor Information System (ACIS),
which will create a relational dataset between authors and their
publications and institutions. This information will assist in building
awareness of the benefits of institutional repositories. OSI is
collaborating with the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at
Long Island University on this project.
http://acis.openlib.org/

9. Free Online Scholarship newsletter, written by Peter Suber, was
supported from October 2001-August 2002.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm

10. User's manual for Eprints2, an Open Archives Initiative compliant
software, will be developed. The manual will assist in the development of
institutional repositories.

 I hope to hear from you through the BOAI Forum.
 Best wishes,

 Peter Suber
 Moderator, BOAI Forum

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[Today is the first anniversary of the BOAI. To mark the occasion,
it launched a new discussion list, the BOAI-Forum, which I'll
moderate. Here's the first message from the list. If you'd
like to subscribe, first sign the BOAI
<<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/sign.shtml%3E%20and%20then%20follow%20the%20link%20below%20to%20our%20web-based%20subscription%20form.%20%20--Peter." eudora="autourl">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/sign.shtml>
and then follow the link below to our web-based subscription
</a>form<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/sign.shtml%3E%20and%20then%20follow%20the%20link%20below%20to%20our%20web-based%20subscription%20form.%20%20--Peter." eudora="autourl">.
--Peter.</a>] 
 
Dear Supporters of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, 
The BOAI launched one year ago today, February 14, 2002. Since then
we've announced several new BOAI activities and funding programs.
Today we're launching the BOAI Forum, which will greatly facilitate our
ability to make future announcements and to collect the open-access
wisdom of the worldwide network of BOAI supporters. 
Here are some details on the Forum as well as a summary of our first
year's activity. 
----- 
(1) The BOAI Forum 
We're very pleased to announce the launch of this Forum. We'll use
it to spread BOAI news quickly and efficiently to those who most care to
hear about it. For example, we'll use it to announce new BOAI
funding programs and publications. We hope you'll use it to share
news, details, and tips about your own open-access projects. Over
time this will allow us to collect the hard-won experience of our
subscribers in advancing the cause of open-access research literature in
all fields of science and scholarship. 
To protect you against unwanted email, we did *not* automatically
subscribe you or other signatories to the new Forum. To subscribe
to the forum, simply fill in your email address on this page,
<<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f" eudora="autourl">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f</a>>.
If you want to unsubscribe later, just use the same form.
 
We expect this to be a low-traffic list, perhaps after an initial flurry
of contributions. 
Subscriptions will be limited to those who have signed the BOAI public
statement. We'll soon have an archive of past postings which will
be readable by non-subscribers. 
In the future we'll send BOAI announcements to the Forum subscribers, not
to the BOAI signatories. So to stay up to date with the initiative
you once supported with your signature, please subscribe to the
Forum. 
----- 
(2) How can you celebrate the birthday of the BOAI? 
* Subscribe to the BOAI Forum. (Remember that it's not
automatic.) 
<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f" eudora="autourl">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f</a> 
* Spread the word about the BOAI. Ask your colleagues and
institution to sign. 
* Talk to colleagues about the open-access projects, or impediments, in
your institution or discipline. Write about them. Applaud the
progress, identify the obstacles, answer the skeptics, and educate the
next generation of researchers. 
* If you are participating in an open-access project, send the details to
the BOAI Forum. If you need advice, ask the knowledgeable
subscribers of the BOAI Forum. 
* If you're not currently participating in an open-access project,
consider joining or starting one. Remember that the BOAI is not
just a public statement, now one year old. It's a continuing
initiative trying to enlist the assistance and participation of its
signatories and trying to recruit new signatories willing to help.
Launch an open-access eprint archive at your institution. Help
launch an open-access journal or convert a traditional journal.
Archive your own papers, persuade your colleagues to do the same, and
persuade your institution to adopt a policy to encourage it. If
you're looking for other ideas, look at the BOAI list of ways to advance
the cause. 
<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/help.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/help.shtml</a> 
----- 
(3) Projects supported by the Open Society Institute's Open Access
Program in Year One 
As you know, the Open Society Institute has allocated $3 million to
support specific BOAI-related projects. Here's a quick review of
some of the projects receiving funds in the first year of the
initiative. 
1. Development of open access business guides. The SPARC
Consulting Group has developed a Guide to Business Planning for
Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access, and a Guide to
Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal. 
<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/index.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/index.shtml</a> 
For additional details, please see the recent press
release: 
<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=f67" eudora="autourl">http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=f67</a> 
2. Directory of open access journals will be produced
and maintained by the Lund University Library. 
<a href="http://www.lub.lu.se/lucep/activities/doaj/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.lub.lu.se/lucep/activities/doaj/index.html</a> 
For additional details, please see today�s press
release: 
<a href="http://www.doaj.org/documents/press-release_030214_en.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.doaj.org/documents/press-release_030214_en.html</a> 
3. Pilot project to support authors from the OSI region
to publish articles in open access journals. 40 open access
journals are taking part in the pilot support scheme. The program
will be continued in 2003. 
<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml#journals" eudora="autourl">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml#journals</a> 
4. Pilot project to support BioMed Central (BMC)
Institutional Memberships, which will allow authors from institutions to
publish articles in BMC free of charge. Institutions within the OSI
region can apply to OSI for support. A total of 50 grants to
institutions will be made through this program. 12 institutions
already received grants in 2002. 
<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml#biomed" eudora="autourl">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml#biomed</a> 
5. Workshop to discuss open access journals with learned
society publishers. OSI sponsored a workshop for the members of the
UK-based Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
(ALPSP) in September 2002. 
<a href="http://www.alpsp.org/s130902.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.alpsp.org/s130902.htm</a> 
6. Conference of the Academies of Sciences to introduce
the benefits of open access publishing. The conference was held in
Budapest from 16-18 January, 2003. 24 Academies from the former
Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and China participated. 
<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/meeting.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/meeting.shtml</a> 
7. Support speakers and selected participants to attend
international conferences to spread awareness of the benefits of open
access. OSI has supported the attendance of speakers at various
international conferences including: the 2nd Workshop on the Open
Archives Initiative, held at CERN
(<a href="http://library.cern.ch/Announcement.htm" eudora="autourl">http://library.cern.ch/Announcement.htm</a>);
and the First Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communications
(<a href="http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2002/" eudora="autourl">http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2002/</a>).
 
8. Development of the Academic Contributor Information System
(ACIS), which will create a relational dataset between authors and their
publications and institutions. This information will assist in
building awareness of the benefits of institutional repositories.
OSI is collaborating with the Palmer School of Library and Information
Science at Long Island University on this project. 
<a href="http://acis.openlib.org/" eudora="autourl">http://acis.openlib.org/</a> 
9. Free Online Scholarship newsletter, written by Peter
Suber, was supported from October 2001-August 2002. 
<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm</a> 
10. User�s manual for Eprints2, an Open Archives Initiative
compliant software, will be developed. The manual will assist in
the development of institutional repositories. 
<x-tab> </x-tab>I hope to hear from you
through the BOAI Forum. 
<x-tab> </x-tab>Best wishes, 
<x-tab> </x-tab>Peter Suber 
<x-tab> </x-tab>Moderator, BOAI
Forum 

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