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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.
This wiki-based home page has been my main home page since June 2013.  
* Suggested short URL for this page = [http://bit.ly/petersuber bit.ly/petersuber]
* Suggested short URL for this page = [http://bit.ly/petersuber bit.ly/petersuber]


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** See the [[Writings|bibliography of my writings]] (with links to OA editions).
** See the [[Writings|bibliography of my writings]] (with links to OA editions).


* Nearly all my publications are open access from my [http://bit.ly/dash-suber section of DASH] (the Harvard open-access repository), my [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ Earlham web site], a publisher's site, or some combination of these.
* Nearly all my publications are open access from my [https://dash.harvard.edu/discover?query=peter+suber&scope=/&filtertype=author&filter_relational_operator=authority&filter=3183e96afd7ab6b34448f136081b1649 section of DASH] (the Harvard open-access repository), my [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ Earlham web site], a publisher's site, or some combination of these.
<!-- for old DASH, laid down in fall 2018, this short URL pointed to my section = http://bit.ly/dash-suber ;
no longer does so; I could change where it points and may do so -->
** 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.  
** 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 [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/cse.htm ''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.
** 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 [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/cse.htm ''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.
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* Also see the [[#Social_media | section on social media]] below.
* Also see the [[#Social_media | section on social media]] below.


== Interests ==
== Academic 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.
* When I was a philosophy prof (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 Indian 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.
* 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.
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* Here are some affiliations other than the [[#My_work_and_primary_affiliations|primary affiliations]] above (most recent first):
* Here are some affiliations other than the [[#My_work_and_primary_affiliations|primary affiliations]] above (most recent first):
<!-- ** Member of the Advisory Board of [http://libraria.cc/ Libraria]. Since September 1, 2016. Just waiting for link to advisory board. -->
<!-- ** Member of the Advisory Board of [http://libraria.cc/ Libraria]. Since September 1, 2016. Just waiting for link to advisory board. -->
** Member of the Advisory Committee of the study, [https://blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/orcid-study/2018/02/22/hello-world/ Characterizing the Adoption of ORCID iDs in Academic Communities]  
** Member of the [https://projectaiur.com/team/#advisors Advisory Board] of [https://iris.ai/aiur/ Project Aiur]
<!-- Since May 16, 2018. -->
** Member of the [https://blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/orcid-study/people/ Advisory Committee] for the study, [https://blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/orcid-study/2018/02/22/hello-world/ Characterizing the Adoption of ORCID iDs in Academic Communities]  
<!-- since September 14, 2017 -->
<!-- since September 14, 2017 -->
<!-- the people page is still under construction
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** Member of the [http://www.share-research.org/about/our-team/joint-working-group/ Joint Working Group] of [http://www.arl.org/share SHared Access Research Ecosystem] (SHARE) <!-- member of technical working group since Nov 2013, which then merged with other working groups to become joint working group in Feb 2015 -->
** Member of the [http://www.share-research.org/about/our-team/joint-working-group/ Joint Working Group] of [http://www.arl.org/share SHared Access Research Ecosystem] (SHARE) <!-- member of technical working group since Nov 2013, which then merged with other working groups to become joint working group in Feb 2015 -->
** Member of the [http://about.scienceopen.com/advisory-board/ Advisory Board] of [https://www.scienceopen.com/ ScienceOpen] <!-- since Sept 20, 2013 -->
** Member of the [http://about.scienceopen.com/advisory-board/ Advisory Board] of [https://www.scienceopen.com/ ScienceOpen] <!-- since Sept 20, 2013 -->
** Member of the [http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/about/our-team/advisory-board-members/ Advisory Board] of [http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/ Knowledge Unlatched] (KU) <!-- since January 2013 -->
** Member of the [https://about.openlibhums.org/about/committees/academic-steering-advocacy-committee/ Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee] of the [http://www.openlibhums.org/ Open Library of Humanities] (OLH) <!-- since January 2013 -->  
** Member of the [https://about.openlibhums.org/about/committees/academic-steering-advocacy-committee/ Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee] of the [http://www.openlibhums.org/ Open Library of Humanities] (OLH) <!-- since January 2013 -->  
** Member of the [http://opensyllabusproject.org/people/ Advisory Board] of the [http://opensyllabusproject.org/ Open Syllabus Project] (OSP) <!-- since July 2012 -->
** Member of the [http://opensyllabusproject.org/people/ Advisory Board] of the [http://opensyllabusproject.org/ Open Syllabus Project] (OSP) <!-- since July 2012 -->
<!-- ** Director of the Harvard Open Access Project -->
<!-- ** Director of the Harvard Open Access Project -->
** Member of the [http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6095/people Board] of [http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/j_6/home Enabling Open Scholarship] (EOS) <!-- since 9/22/09 -->
** Member of the [http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6095/people Board] of [http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/j_6/home Enabling Open Scholarship] (EOS) <!-- since 9/22/09 -->
** Member of the [http://journals.sfu.ca/src/index.php/src/announcement/view/5 Editorial Board] of the [http://journals.sfu.ca/src/index.php/src/index Journal of Scholarly and Research Communication] <!-- since 4/09 -->
** 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 -->
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* Past affiliations (most recent first)
* Past affiliations (most recent first)
** Member of the [http://journals.sfu.ca/src/index.php/src/announcement/view/5 Editorial Board] of the [http://journals.sfu.ca/src/index.php/src/index Journal of Scholarly and Research Communication] <!-- since 4/09 --> <!-- stepped down at end of Nov 2018 -->
** Member of the [http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/about-us/ Library Steering Committee] of [http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/ Knowledge Unlatched] (KU) <!-- since January 2013 --> <!-- I stepped down October 30, 2018, in email to Frances Pinter -->
** Member of the [http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/hefce/content/whatwedo/research/infrastructure/openaccess/International_Advisory_Panel_members.pdf Advisory Panel] of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20140904101654/http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/monographs/ HEFCE monographs and open access project] <!-- since Aug 2013 -->
** Member of the [http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/hefce/content/whatwedo/research/infrastructure/openaccess/International_Advisory_Panel_members.pdf Advisory Panel] of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20140904101654/http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/monographs/ HEFCE monographs and open access project] <!-- since Aug 2013 -->
** Member of the [http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/editors Editorial Board] of [http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications Publications] <!-- starting August 2012 --> <!-- stepped down Aug 1, 2014 -->
** Member of the [http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/editors Editorial Board] of [http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications Publications] <!-- starting August 2012 --> <!-- stepped down Aug 1, 2014 -->
** [http://www.openforumacademy.org/fellows/biog/peter-suber Fellow] at the [http://www.openforumacademy.org/ OpenForum Academy] <!-- started June 28, 2012; stepped down Nov 7, 2016 -->
** [http://www.openforumacademy.org/fellows/biog/peter-suber Fellow] at the [http://www.openforumacademy.org/ OpenForum Academy] <!-- started June 28, 2012; stepped down Nov 7, 2016 -->
<!-- stepped down again May 27, 2018 -->
** Member of the Advisory Group of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20110604130115/http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/campus/ SPARC Campus Open Access Policies project] <!-- publicly launched August 5, 2009 -->
** Member of the Advisory Group of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20110604130115/http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/campus/ SPARC Campus Open Access Policies project] <!-- publicly launched August 5, 2009 -->
** Visiting Fellow at the [http://isp.law.yale.edu/ Information Society Project] (ISP) of [http://www.law.yale.edu/ Yale Law School] <!-- since 1/08 -->
** Visiting Fellow at the [http://isp.law.yale.edu/ Information Society Project] (ISP) of [http://www.law.yale.edu/ Yale Law School] <!-- since 1/08 -->
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* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/psuber Berkman Klein Center profile].
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/psuber Berkman Klein Center profile].
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/hometoc.htm Earlham College home page].
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Suber Wikipedia profile]
* [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289028 Wikidata profile]
* [http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3577-2890 ORCID profile]. My ORCID = 0000-0002-3577-2890.
* [http://isni.org/isni/0000000035796302 ISNI profile]. My ISNI ID = 0000 0000 3579 6302.
* [http://viaf.org/viaf/41863008 VIAF profile]. My VIAF ID = 41863008.
<!-- * [https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/about Google profile]. -->
<!-- * [https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/about Google profile]. -->
* [http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ogK4ZGQAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar profile].
<!-- * [https://preview.academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/119269184 Microsoft Academic profile].
<!-- * [https://preview.academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/119269184 Microsoft Academic profile].
commented out because MS doesn't list many of my papers, and doesn't give me enough control to provide useful info; on probation; perhaps MS Academic will improve one day -->
commented out because MS doesn't list many of my papers, and doesn't give me enough control to provide useful info; on probation; perhaps MS Academic will improve one day -->
* [http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3577-2890 ORCID profile]. My ORCID = 0000-0002-3577-2890.
* [http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ogK4ZGQAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar profile].  
* [http://isni.org/isni/0000000035796302 ISNI profile]. My ISNI ID = 0000 0000 3579 6302.
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/hometoc.htm Earlham College home page]. (Mostly superseded by the present home page.)
* [http://viaf.org/viaf/41863008 VIAF profile]. My VIAF ID = 41863008.
* [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.


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* My page on [[Conflicts|conflicts of interest]].


== Social media ==
== Social media ==


* I tweet as [https://twitter.com/petersuber @petersuber] and blog at Google+ as [https://google.com/+PeterSuber +petersuber].
* I tweet as [https://twitter.com/petersuber @petersuber] and blog at Google+ as [https://google.com/+PeterSuber +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 [http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5 2010 article].
** I have accounts on Diaspora, Dock, LinkedIn, and Mastodon (not all these are in exactly the same niche). But I don't use them. I deleted my Facebook account for reasons like those laid out in this [http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5 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.  
** Although I'm picky about social-media sites, that doesn't mean that I love the two I use. On the contrary, Twitter and Google+ both feed online centralization, which I oppose. In their surveillance of my online habits, they take more from my privacy than they give back in features or other benefits. They both do their part to turn universal Turing machines into dumb terminals plugged in to a corporate cloud. Neither is built on free and open-source software, failing my own recommendation for other digital tools and infrastructure. And simply on the merits, or doing what I want social-media platforms to do, they're both deteriorating. The niche for something better grows larger all the time. Before you write, I recognize that by using them, I boost their network effects, and help entrench them against better alternatives. That's one reason why I actively monitor the emergence of alternatives.  
** 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; 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].
** ''Update, October 8, 2018'': Google is [https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/ shutting down Google+] for people like me. I'm using a [https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/History_of_open_access#Google.2B_blog_.282011-present.29 different page] in this wiki to track what I'm doing about that.
** For tips on searching Open Access News, see my page on the [[History_of_open_access | history of OA]].
 
* 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 blog is preserved and searchable in several places. For details, see the [https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/History_of_open_access#Open_Access_News_.282002-2010.29 section on my blog] in my page on the [https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/History_of_open_access History of Open Access].


== 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. <!-- deliberately omitting fax number: 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]. -->


* My office is in [https://goo.gl/maps/0lmPc Widener Library], Room G-20.
* My office is in [https://goo.gl/maps/0lmPc Widener Library], Room G-20.
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* My primary email addresses are [mailto:peter_suber@harvard.edu peter_suber@harvard.edu] and [mailto:peter.suber@gmail.com peter.suber@gmail.com].  
* My primary email addresses are [mailto:peter_suber@harvard.edu peter_suber@harvard.edu] and [mailto:peter.suber@gmail.com peter.suber@gmail.com].  
** I also use <psuber@cyber.law.harvard.edu>.  
** 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.  
** I'm phasing out <psuber@law.harvard.edu> and <peters@earlham.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.
* Email is the best way to reach me. If you want to contact me by phone, text, 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 16:08, 14 December 2018

This wiki-based home page has been my main home page since June 2013.

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.

Academic interests

  • When I was a philosophy prof (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 Indian 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, Dock, LinkedIn, and Mastodon (not all these are in exactly the same niche). But I 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 I love the two I use. On the contrary, Twitter and Google+ both feed online centralization, which I oppose. In their surveillance of my online habits, they take more from my privacy than they give back in features or other benefits. They both do their part to turn universal Turing machines into dumb terminals plugged in to a corporate cloud. Neither is built on free and open-source software, failing my own recommendation for other digital tools and infrastructure. And simply on the merits, or doing what I want social-media platforms to do, they're both deteriorating. The niche for something better grows larger all the time. Before you write, I recognize that by using them, I boost their network effects, and help entrench them against better alternatives. That's one reason why I actively monitor the emergence of alternatives.
    • 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.
    • Update, October 8, 2018: Google is shutting down Google+ for people like me. I'm using a different page in this wiki to track what I'm doing about that.
  • 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 is preserved and searchable in several places. For details, see the section on my blog in my page on the History of Open Access.

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'm phasing out <psuber@law.harvard.edu> and <peters@earlham.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, text, 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