The principal buyers of access licences for this content will be public research organisations or university libraries , an absurd situation in which public servants find themselves constricted and forced , due to lack of alternatives , to buy digitised content which forms part of our shared cultural heritage . The agreements behind this private digitisation restrict access to knowledge which , because of its history , ought to belong to us all . This archival process and digital re-appropriation of cultural data , financed by rich institutions , transposes and imposes a way of exploiting the human mind on the public space that is the internet .
Первоначальной структурой в 2001 году стала Будапештская конференция по открытому доступу ( Budapest Open Access Initiative ) , возникнув в глубине общего желания широко взглянуть на цифровое пространство .