Interview with Peter Suber: Unlocking Knowledge for Social Equity (for International Open Access Week 2021)
Description
Interview with Peter Suber – Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, Senior Researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Earlham College.
In the view of many, Peter Suber has been a generous leader and guide not only among, but also to the brightest lights, clearest thinkers and most effective of collaborative practitioners in the Open Access to scholarly research movement - for at least the last two decades. In this wide ranging and timely interview for International Open Access Week 2021, Peter gives his expert, fact-based opinion on the origin, location and potential destination of various core elements of the Open Access movement and the scholarly communication system which it is so clearly shaping - now at speed.
Interview topics covered include but are not limited to:
- A brief history of Open Access - Peter Suber’s Open Access story
- Open Access and its language defined
- Open Access highlights of the last "5,10 or 15" years:
- Open Infrastructure
- The Next Generation Repositories (NGR) project by the Coalition of Open Access Repositories (COAR) - over 4,000 institutional repositories in place to accelerate repository-based (Green) Open Access
- Plan S and other big funders moves toward Open Access
- Transformative Agreements
- International responses to the Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
- San Francisco DORA statement
- Leiden Manifesto
- Controlled Digital Lending
- Open Infrastructure
- Corporate capture of proprietary infrastructure and its scholarly content
- Structural equity – challenges and green shoots
- Open peer review
- The "perfect" Australian Open Access policy
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Peter Suber Interview by Scott Abbott.mp4
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