Open Access

Open access is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined, or libre open access, barriers to copying….

Open Research

Open research comprises openness throughout the research cycle through collaborative working and sharing and making research methodology, software, code, and equipment freely available online, along with instructions for using it.

Open Education

Open education is an educational movement founded on openness, with connections to other educational movements such as critical pedagogy, and with an educational stance which favors widening participation and inclusiveness in society.

Open Journals

Open Journals is a collection of open sources and open access journals. Open access journals are journals whose articles are available and reusable worldwide, free of charge and without restrictions immediately on publication. Most open access journals do not charge their authors for publishing articles. In other cases, the so-called author-pays model is common…

Open Data

Open data is data that is openly accessible, exploitable, editable, and shared by anyone for any purpose. Open data is licensed under an open license. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other “open(-source)” movements. The philosophy behind open data has been long established (for example, in the Mertonian tradition…

Budapest OA Initiative

The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature, which was released to the public on February 14, 2002. It arose from a conference convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute on December 1–2, 2001, to promote open access, which at that time…

Our Story

Open Access Bangladesh is a community organization. Its main aim is to promote Open Access principles and research activity among the students and researchers in Bangladesh. This is a platform for advocating open access and sharing success stories of the open access movement in the world and Bangladesh. It invites everyone who is involved and interested in the open access movement to discuss and raise issues related to open access in general and in specific to Bangladesh. The group would work for influencing the policy makers, managers, researchers, scholarly societies to adopt open access policy for their research and to take forward the open access movement in Bangladesh. Everyone is invited to join the ‘Open Access Bangladesh.