Twenty years ago the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) offered the first definition of Open Access. To mark the anniversary, in consultation with the community, the BOAI20 Steering Committee has released a new set of recommendations, which are available at budapestopenaccessinitiative.org.

Join the BOAI20 Steering Committee for a discussion on the new recommendations and future of Open Access led by Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin, Co-director of the ScholCommLab, Simon Fraser University. Questions for the steering committee that may potentially be included in the webcast discussion can be emailed to boai20anniversary@gmail.com. 

The BOAI20 Steering Committee members are: Dominique Babini, Open Science Advisor, CLACSO; Leslie Chan, Director, Knowledge Equity Lab, University of Toronto Scarborough; Melissa Hagemann, Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundations; Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC; Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Program Director, EIFL; and Peter Suber, Senior Advisor on Open Access, Harvard Library.

A recording of the webcast will be made available.