Unlocking Secrets: What Open Science Pioneers Wish They Knew Before Today’s Reality Hit
The Budapest Open Access Initiative is more than 25 years old. It called for journal content to be “freely accessible online…without expectation of payment.” It also specified that articles be free for use “as data to software.” Publishers moved to adopt OA business models — including defaulting to CC BY licenses — at a time when text- and data-mining (TDM) and AI were not generally part of the conversation. With AI at the fore, some publishers have ceased defaulting to CC BY. This has been driven both by author skepticism and fears of lost revenue.
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