 What is the role of Budapest in open access generally?
Shifting from isolated computers to a globe-spanning network of connected computers suddenly allows us to share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at essentially no cost. OA was defined in three influential public statements: the Budapest Open Access Initiative (February 2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (June 2003), and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (October 2003). Here’s how the Budapest statement defined OA: There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to [research] literature. If there are complexities, they lie in the transition from where we are now to a world in which OA is the default for new research.
 It happens to be one city that hosted an early meeting about these issues
 Most of the scholars in this city tend to publish in OA journals, which means they have pull on the policies  It happens to be one city that hosted an early meeting about these issues  It is the location of the headquarters of the company that oversees OA publishing  Most of the decisions about OA policies are made in meetings hosted there