Peter Suber: Difference between revisions

From Peter Suber
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
(45 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 32: Line 32:
** See the [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm backfile] of my newsletter (''Free Online Scholarship Newsletter'', 2001-2002, and ''SPARC Open Access Newsletter'', 2003-2013)
** See the [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm backfile] of my newsletter (''Free Online Scholarship Newsletter'', 2001-2002, and ''SPARC Open Access Newsletter'', 2003-2013)
** See the archive of my old blog, [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html ''Open Access News''] (2002-2010).
** See the archive of my old blog, [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html ''Open Access News''] (2002-2010).
** See some tips on how my projects and writings could help those studying the [[History of open access|history of OA]]


* '''On topics other than open access'''
* '''On topics other than open access'''
Line 51: Line 52:
== Interests ==
== Interests ==


* When I was a teaching, publishing philosophy prof (c. 1982-2003), I specialized in Kant and German idealism; the history of modern European philosophy, roughly from Montaigne to Nietzsche; the history of western skepticism from Socrates to the 20th century; epistemological and ethical issues related to skepticism, such as fictionalism, ideology, self-deception, and the ethics of belief; the logical, epistemological, ethical, and legal problems of self-reference; the metatheory of first-order logic; the ethics of paternalism, consent, and coercion; and the philosophy of law. I retain an interest in all these topics, and have since added some new ones: the connections between ancient Greek skepticism and Buddhism (via Pyrrho), the naturalization of ethics, and concepts of randomness.
* When I was a philosophy prof (c. 1982-2003), I specialized in Kant and German idealism; the history of modern European philosophy, roughly from Montaigne to Nietzsche; the history of western skepticism from Socrates to the 20th century; epistemological and ethical issues related to skepticism, such as fictionalism, ideology, self-deception, and the ethics of belief; the logical, epistemological, ethical, and legal problems of self-reference; the metatheory of first-order logic; the ethics of paternalism, consent, and coercion; and the philosophy of law. I retain an interest in all these topics, and have since added some new ones: the connections between ancient Greek skepticism and Buddhism (via Pyrrho), the naturalization of ethics, and concepts of randomness.


* In my post-prof life, my interests center on policies and technologies that foster knowledge, especially those that foster the growth, sharing, use, and usefulness of knowledge. In addition to promoting these policies and technologies, I want to understand how the internet has changed research and education, how it ought to change them, and what it would mean to take full advantage of the internet for research and education.
* In my post-prof life, my interests center on policies, practices, and technologies that foster knowledge, especially those that foster the growth, sharing, integration, use, and usefulness of knowledge. In addition to promoting these policies, practices, and technologies, I want to understand how the internet has changed research, scholarship, and education, how it ought to change them, and what it would mean to take full advantage of the internet for these purposes.


== Other current affiliations ==
== Other current affiliations ==
Line 61: Line 62:
** Member of the [https://fairoa.org/about/ Board] of the [https://fairoa.org/ Fair Open Access Alliance] (FOAA)
** Member of the [https://fairoa.org/about/ Board] of the [https://fairoa.org/ Fair Open Access Alliance] (FOAA)
<!-- since August 2017 -->
<!-- since August 2017 -->
** External Expert for [http://openminted.eu/ OpenMinTeD], in the [http://openminted.eu/community/working-groups/ Working Group] on intellectual property rights and interoperability
** External Expert for [http://openminted.eu/ OpenMinTeD], in the [http://openminted.eu/community/working-groups/ Working Group] on intellectual property rights and licensing
<!-- Since September 11, 2016. -->
<!-- Since September 11, 2016. -->
** Member of the [http://riojournal.com/board Advisory Board] of [http://riojournal.com/ Research Ideas and Outcomes] (RIO) <!-- Since sept 4, 2015 -->
** Member of the [http://riojournal.com/board Advisory Board] of [http://riojournal.com/ Research Ideas and Outcomes] (RIO) <!-- Since sept 4, 2015 -->
Line 78: Line 79:
** Member of the [http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Editorial_Board Editorial Board] of the [http://oad.simmons.edu/ Open Access Directory] (OAD) <!-- since 3/08 -->
** Member of the [http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Editorial_Board Editorial Board] of the [http://oad.simmons.edu/ Open Access Directory] (OAD) <!-- since 3/08 -->
** Member of the [http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&catid=56&Itemid=95 Steering Committee] of the [http://www.openoasis.org/ Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook] (OASIS) <!-- since 2/08 -->
** Member of the [http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&catid=56&Itemid=95 Steering Committee] of the [http://www.openoasis.org/ Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook] (OASIS) <!-- since 2/08 -->
** Member of the [https://okfn.org/about/advisory-council/ Advisory Council] of the [http://www.okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation], and the [http://www.opendefinition.org/advisory-council/ Advisory Council] for its [http://opendefinition.org/ Open Definition] <!-- on advisory council since 11/07; officially announced February 15, 2008-->
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20140714223530/https://okfn.org/about/advisory-council/ Advisory Council] of the [http://www.okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation], and the [http://www.opendefinition.org/advisory-council/ Advisory Council] for its [http://opendefinition.org/ Open Definition] <!-- on advisory council since 11/07; officially announced February 15, 2008-->
<!-- if I don't want to link to Wayback Machine page, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge_International#People -->
** Member of the [http://openhumanitiespress.org/open-access-board.html OA Advisory Board] of [http://openhumanitiespress.org/ Open Humanities Press] <!-- since 10/8/06 -->
** Member of the [http://openhumanitiespress.org/open-access-board.html OA Advisory Board] of [http://openhumanitiespress.org/ Open Humanities Press] <!-- since 10/8/06 -->
** Member of the New Knot Claims Assessment Committee of the [http://www.igkt.net/ International Guild of Knot Tyers]
** Member of the New Knot Claims Assessment Committee of the [http://www.igkt.net/ International Guild of Knot Tyers]
Line 85: Line 87:
* Also:
* Also:
** Co-founder of the Harvard [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/odap Open Data Assistance Program] (ODAP), with Mercè Crosas, 2014
** Co-founder of the Harvard [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/odap Open Data Assistance Program] (ODAP), with Mercè Crosas, 2014
** Co-developer of [http://bit.ly/tagteam-intro TagTeam], 2011
** Co-developer of [https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/TagTeam TagTeam], 2011
** Founder of the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap Harvard Open Access Project] (HOAP), 2011
** Founder of the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap Harvard Open Access Project] (HOAP), 2011
** Founder of the [http://bit.ly/o-a-t-p Open Access Tracking Project] (OATP), 2009
** Founder of the [https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project Open Access Tracking Project] (OATP), 2009
** Co-founder of the [http://oad.simmons.edu/ Open Access Directory] (OAD), with Robin Peek, 2008
** Co-founder of the [http://oad.simmons.edu/ Open Access Directory] (OAD), with Robin Peek, 2008
** Co-founder of the [http://bit.ly/hoap-soar Societies and Open Access Research] (SOAR) project, with Caroline Sutton, 2007
** Co-founder of the [http://bit.ly/hoap-soar Societies and Open Access Research] (SOAR) project, with Caroline Sutton, 2007
Line 122: Line 124:
** Member of the Advisory Board of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20020803111450/http://www.info-commons.org/project.html Information Commons] of the [http://www.ala.org/ American Library Association]
** Member of the Advisory Board of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20020803111450/http://www.info-commons.org/project.html Information Commons] of the [http://www.ala.org/ American Library Association]
** Director of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20051221233251/http://www.publicknowledge.org/about/what/projects/open-access.html Open Access Project] at [http://www.publicknowledge.org/ Public Knowledge] <!-- since 7/04 -->  
** Director of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20051221233251/http://www.publicknowledge.org/about/what/projects/open-access.html Open Access Project] at [http://www.publicknowledge.org/ Public Knowledge] <!-- since 7/04 -->  
** Moderator of the [http://www.sparc.arl.org/publications/soan/ SPARC Open Access Forum] (SOAF)
** Author of the [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm SPARC Open Access Newsletter] (SOAN) (formerly the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter)
** Senior Researcher at the [http://sparcopen.org/ Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition] (SPARC) <!-- since 7/04; now clear when this ended, or even whether it ended-->
** Senior Researcher at the [http://sparcopen.org/ Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition] (SPARC) <!-- since 7/04; now clear when this ended, or even whether it ended-->
** Author of the [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm SPARC Open Access Newsletter] (SOAN)
** Author and editor of the [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html Open Access News blog] (OAN)
** Author and editor of the [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html Open Access News blog] (OAN)
** Member of the Board of Directors of the [http://www.penbay.org/bagaduce.html Bagaduce Watershed Association]
** Member of the Board of Directors of the [http://www.penbay.org/bagaduce.html Bagaduce Watershed Association]
** Member of the Board of Governors of the [http://www.icaap.org/ International Consortium For The Advancement of Academic Publication]
** Member of the Board of Governors of the [http://www.icaap.org/ International Consortium For The Advancement of Academic Publication]
** Moderator of the [http://www.sparc.arl.org/publications/soan/ SPARC Open Access Forum] (SOAF)
** Moderator of the [http://threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lists/boaiforum/ BOAI Forum]
** Moderator of the [http://threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lists/boaiforum/ BOAI Forum]
** Editorial consultant to [http://noesis.evansville.edu/ Noesis: Philosophical Research Online]
** Editorial consultant to [http://noesis.evansville.edu/ Noesis: Philosophical Research Online]
Line 148: Line 150:
* [http://bit.ly/cv-suber-short My curriculum vitae] (abridged and dated). Contact me if you need an unabridged and updated version.
* [http://bit.ly/cv-suber-short My curriculum vitae] (abridged and dated). Contact me if you need an unabridged and updated version.


* My entire Earlham web site, including my courses, blog archive, and many of my publications, is preserved and annually refreshed at a [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH.WAX:9361440 section] within [http://wax.lib.harvard.edu/collections/collection.do?coll=201&lang=eng Harvard's H-Sites]. H-Sites will soon preserve and mirror the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap wiki] of the [https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page Harvard Open Access Project] and my [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/ personal wiki] containing this home page.
* Archived sites and pages
** [http://wax.lib.harvard.edu/collections/collection.do?coll=201&lang=eng Harvard's H-Sites] preserves three of my web sites:
*** [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH.WAX:9361440 One section] preserves my [https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/hometoc.htm Earlham College web site], including my course pages, blog archive, and many of my publications. (I believe that all of my publications on this site are now also in [http://dash.harvard.edu/ DASH].)
*** A [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH.WAX:14068447 second section] preserves my [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/ personal wiki] at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, including this wiki-based home page.
*** A [https://wayback.archive-it.org/5456/*/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/ third section] preserves the site of the [https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page Harvard Open Access Project] (HOAP) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
<!-- in March 2018, H-sites started using IA's Archive-It; the same older URNs have redirects and still work
-- old H-sites url for my berkman wiki = http://wax.lib.harvard.edu/collections/seed.do?seed=4410&primColl=201&lang=eng
-->
<!-- still don't have the NRS version of the URL for the HOAP archive -->


== Social media ==
== Social media ==
Line 156: Line 166:
** Although I'm picky about social-media sites, that doesn't mean that the two I use have my unqualified endorsements. On the contrary, Twitter and Google+ are both deteriorating, and the niche for something better grows larger all the time.  
** Although I'm picky about social-media sites, that doesn't mean that the two I use have my unqualified endorsements. On the contrary, Twitter and Google+ are both deteriorating, and the niche for something better grows larger all the time.  
** If you have a serious question for me, please consider a channel that gives me space for a serious answer, like email or Google+, [[Not on Twitter please | not Twitter]].
** If you have a serious question for me, please consider a channel that gives me space for a serious answer, like email or Google+, [[Not on Twitter please | not Twitter]].
* Nowadays I post little to social media. But from 2002 from 2010 I blogged intensively at [https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html Open Access News] &mdash; roughly 18,000 posts over 8 years, with occasional partners. OAN was my attempt to stay on top of all that was happening with OA, and share what I learned. It was useful while it lasted, but it didn't scale with the growth of OA. I laid it down soon after I launched the crowd-sourced and tag-based [https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project Open Access Tracking Project]. I explained why I was making the transition in a May 2009 [https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4322586 article] in my newsletter. The [https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html OAN archive] remains online for searching, with another copy preserved in a [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH.WAX:9361440 section] of [http://wax.lib.harvard.edu/collections/collection.do?coll=201&lang=eng Harvard's H-Sites].
* Nowadays I post little to social media. But from 2002 from 2010 I blogged intensively at [https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html Open Access News] &mdash; about 18,000 posts over 8 years, with occasional blogging partners. OAN was my attempt to stay on top of all that was happening with OA and share what I learned. It was useful while it lasted, but it didn't scale with the growth of OA. That failure to scale led me to launch the crowd-sourced and tag-based [https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project Open Access Tracking Project] in 2009, and lay down my blog about a year later. I explained why I was making the transition in a May 2009 [https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4322586 article] in my newsletter. The [https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html blog archive] remains online for searching, with another copy preserved in a [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH.WAX:9361440 section] of [http://wax.lib.harvard.edu/collections/collection.do?coll=201&lang=eng Harvard's H-Sites].
** For tips on searching Open Access News, see my page on the [[History_of_open_access | history of OA]].


== Contacting me ==
== Contacting me ==


* [https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/ Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication], [https://goo.gl/CQOF6A Widener Library], Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138. Phone 617-495-4089. Fax 617-495-0370. Email [mailto:osc@harvard.edu osc@harvard.edu].  
* [https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/ Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication], [https://goo.gl/CQOF6A Widener Library], Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138. Phone 617-495-4089. <!-- deliberately omitting fax number: Fax 617-495-0370. --> Email [mailto:osc@harvard.edu osc@harvard.edu].  
** The OSC staff assistant is [mailto:sarah_kinne@harvard.edu Sarah Kinne].
** The OSC staff assistant is [mailto:sarah_kinne@harvard.edu Sarah Kinne].


Line 169: Line 180:
** I no longer use <peters@earlham.edu> or <psuber@law.harvard.edu>. If you have them in your address book, please replace them with one of the above.  
** I no longer use <peters@earlham.edu> or <psuber@law.harvard.edu>. If you have them in your address book, please replace them with one of the above.  


* Email is the best way to reach me. If you don't want to go through the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, and want to contact me by phone, fax, snail mail, or some other way, then send me an email and I'll tell you how. If you send me a message by social media, I probably won't see it.
* Email is the best way to reach me. If you want to contact me by phone, fax, snail mail, or some other way, and don't want to go through the Office for Scholarly Communication, then send me an email and I'll tell you how. If you send me a message by social media, I probably won't see it.





Revision as of 13:42, 6 April 2018

This wiki-based home page has been my main home page since June 2013. If I move to another page, I'll say so here and link to the new page.

My work and primary affiliations

  • My primary field is philosophy (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1978). I'm also a non-practicing lawyer (J.D., Northwestern, 1982).

Writings

 

My latest book is Knowledge Unbound (MIT Press, 2016). It's available in paperback, hardback, and many open-access editions (same text, different file formats).

 

My last book before that is Open Access (MIT Press, 2012). It's available in paperback and many open-access editions (same text, different file formats). I keep it alive with frequent updates and supplements. Choice named Open Access an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013.
  • Nearly all my publications are open access from my section of DASH (the Harvard open-access repository), my Earlham web site, a publisher's site, or some combination of these.
    • One kind of exception is an older, print-only publication for which I don't yet have a digital edition. Over the years I've gradually created digital editions where I didn't have them, and I'm nearly done.
    • Another kind of exception is a work for which I have a digital edition but not permission for open access. The only exception of this kind is The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions (Routledge, 1998). I published it before I started thinking hard about OA. I've asked Routledge to make the book OA, but it declined. I'm still willing to do so as soon as Routledge is. If Routledge doesn't make it OA while the book is still in print, then I'll make it OA as soon is it goes out of print and the rights revert to me.

Interests

  • When I was a philosophy prof (c. 1982-2003), I specialized in Kant and German idealism; the history of modern European philosophy, roughly from Montaigne to Nietzsche; the history of western skepticism from Socrates to the 20th century; epistemological and ethical issues related to skepticism, such as fictionalism, ideology, self-deception, and the ethics of belief; the logical, epistemological, ethical, and legal problems of self-reference; the metatheory of first-order logic; the ethics of paternalism, consent, and coercion; and the philosophy of law. I retain an interest in all these topics, and have since added some new ones: the connections between ancient Greek skepticism and Buddhism (via Pyrrho), the naturalization of ethics, and concepts of randomness.
  • In my post-prof life, my interests center on policies, practices, and technologies that foster knowledge, especially those that foster the growth, sharing, integration, use, and usefulness of knowledge. In addition to promoting these policies, practices, and technologies, I want to understand how the internet has changed research, scholarship, and education, how it ought to change them, and what it would mean to take full advantage of the internet for these purposes.

Other current affiliations

Background and past affiliations

  • In May 2003 I gave up my position as a tenured, full professor of philosophy at Earlham College, where I had taught since 1982. I also taught computer science and law. I left my professorship in order to work full-time on open access to research, which I've done ever since. However, I'm still a research professor at Earlham and still work full-time in the academic universe.

Related pages

Social media

  • I tweet as @petersuber and blog at Google+ as +petersuber.
    • I have accounts on Diaspora, LinkedIn, Mastodon, and other social-media platforms, but don't use them. I deleted my Facebook account for reasons like those laid out in this 2010 article.
    • Although I'm picky about social-media sites, that doesn't mean that the two I use have my unqualified endorsements. On the contrary, Twitter and Google+ are both deteriorating, and the niche for something better grows larger all the time.
    • If you have a serious question for me, please consider a channel that gives me space for a serious answer, like email or Google+, not Twitter.
  • Nowadays I post little to social media. But from 2002 from 2010 I blogged intensively at Open Access News — about 18,000 posts over 8 years, with occasional blogging partners. OAN was my attempt to stay on top of all that was happening with OA and share what I learned. It was useful while it lasted, but it didn't scale with the growth of OA. That failure to scale led me to launch the crowd-sourced and tag-based Open Access Tracking Project in 2009, and lay down my blog about a year later. I explained why I was making the transition in a May 2009 article in my newsletter. The blog archive remains online for searching, with another copy preserved in a section of Harvard's H-Sites.
    • For tips on searching Open Access News, see my page on the history of OA.

Contacting me

  • My primary email addresses are peter_suber@harvard.edu and peter.suber@gmail.com.
    • I also use <psuber@cyber.law.harvard.edu>.
    • I no longer use <peters@earlham.edu> or <psuber@law.harvard.edu>. If you have them in your address book, please replace them with one of the above.
  • Email is the best way to reach me. If you want to contact me by phone, fax, snail mail, or some other way, and don't want to go through the Office for Scholarly Communication, then send me an email and I'll tell you how. If you send me a message by social media, I probably won't see it.


"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

     Pascal, Pensées.
     Trans. A.J. Krailsheimer, Penguin, 1966, §513