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Apr 8, 2024 · Author of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) (formerly the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter) Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Author and editor of the Open Access News blog (OAN) Member of the Board of Directors of the Bagaduce Watershed Association.
The MIT Press. Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship.
In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold.
Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints. This is an introduction to open access (OA) for those who are new to the concept. I hope it's short enough to read, long enough to be useful, and organized to let you skip around and dive into detail only where you want detail.
Peter Suber is the Senior Advisor on Open Access (in Harvard Library) and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project (in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society). By training he's a philosopher and lawyer, and gave up his position as a tenured full professor of philosophy in 2003 to work full-time on open access.
Peter Suber, Open Access to Science and Scholarship. The Newsletter appears monthly. For daily updates, see the Open Access News blog. Both are written by Peter Suber . Quick links. Open Access Overview. My introduction to OA for those new to the concept. Newsletter archive. Read or search back issues. Open Access News blog.
I've written a lot over the years about open access (OA) to research. This bibliography of my writings on OA focuses less on news and more on commentary and analysis — pieces that might still be of interest. It includes books, newsletter essays, journal articles, preprints, and interviews.
