Introduction There is a rapidly expanding stock of scientific knowledge. Yet access to this pool of knowledge is often difficult because of the relatively high cost of scholarly journal, their printed and web--based versions. Another vital issue is that removing access barriers will accelerate research, enrich education and share learning. There is therefore a critical need to make research results available to as many academics and elite class as possible free of charge. Because of this need, concerned institutions and organizations felt challenged. One of such initiatives which has been undertaken to demonstrate that scientific knowledge need not be published in forms that make access expensive, is the Budapest.
