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** Director of the [http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/ Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication] (based in the [http://library.harvard.edu/ Harvard Library]) <!-- since 7/1/13 -->
** Director of the [http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/ Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication] (based in the [http://library.harvard.edu/ Harvard Library]) <!-- since 7/1/13 -->
** Director of the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap Harvard Open Access Project] (based in the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Klein Center]) <!-- since 7/11 -->
** Director of the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap Harvard Open Access Project] (based in the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Klein Center]) <!-- since 7/11 -->
** Senior Researcher at the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society] <!-- Faculty Fellow starting 6/09; Senior Researcher starting 9/15 -->
** Senior Researcher at the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society] <!-- Faculty Fellow starting 7/109; Senior Researcher starting 9/15 -->


* My primary field is philosophy (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1978). I'm also a non-practicing lawyer (J.D., Northwestern, 1982).
* My primary field is philosophy (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1978). I'm also a non-practicing lawyer (J.D., Northwestern, 1982).
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| style="background:orange; color:black"  | My last book before that is [http://bit.ly/oa-book ''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 [http://bit.ly/oa-book updates and supplements]. ''Choice'' named ''Open Access'' an [http://www.cro3.org/content/51/05/759.full.pdf Outstanding Academic Title for 2013].
| style="background:orange; color:black"  | My last book before that is [http://bit.ly/oa-book ''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 [http://bit.ly/oa-book updates and supplements]. ''Choice'' named ''Open Access'' an [http://www.cro3.org/content/51/05/759.full.pdf Outstanding Academic Title for 2013].
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<!-- * My latest book is [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access ''Open Access''] (MIT Press, 2012). It's available in paperback and at least eight open-access editions (same text, different file formats). I keep it alive with frequent [http://bit.ly/oa-book updates and supplements]. ''Choice'' named ''Open Access'' an [http://www.cro3.org/content/51/05/759.full.pdf Outstanding Academic Title for 2013]. -->
<!-- * My latest book is [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access ''Open Access''] (MIT Press, 2012). It's available in paperback and at least eight open-access editions (same text, different file formats). I keep it alive with frequent [http://bit.ly/oa-book updates and supplements]. ''Choice'' named ''Open Access'' an [https://web.archive.org/web/20140114005559/http://www.cro3.org/content/51/05/759.full.pdf Outstanding Academic Title for 2013]. -->


* '''On open access'''
* '''On open access'''
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* 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.
* 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.
* Since 2001 or so, my interests have centered on policies, practices, and technologies that foster research, especially those that foster the growth, sharing, reliability, use, and usefulness of research. In addition to promoting these policies, practices, and technologies, I want to understand how the internet has changed research, how it ought to change research, and what it would mean to take full advantage of the internet for research.
<!-- Some obstacles are policies, practices, and technologies with visible limitations, and some are failures of imagination with invisible limitations. -->


== Other current affiliations ==
== Other current affiliations ==
* 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 [https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/editorial-board/ Editorial Board] of the [https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/ Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review]
<!-- since 10/19 or before; forget when Irene asked me; prior to launch on January 16, 2020 -->
<!-- ** 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 [https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/open2020/Open+2020+Working+Group+Home Open 2020 Working Group]
** Member of the [https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/open2020/Open+2020+Working+Group+Home Open 2020 Working Group]
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https://blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/orcid-study/people/ -->
https://blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/orcid-study/people/ -->
** Member of the [https://fairoa.org/about/ Board] of the [https://fairoa.org/ Fair Open Access Alliance] (FOAA)
<!-- 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 licensing
** 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. -->
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** 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 [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-->
** 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20191203214838/http://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 -->
<!-- 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]
** Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at [http://www.earlham.edu/ Earlham College]
** [https://earlham.edu/people/emeriti-faculty/ Professor of Philosophy Emeritus] at [http://www.earlham.edu/ Earlham College]
<!-- emeritus since January 14, 2019; before that Senior Research Professor, since my departure in June 2003; before that Full Professor, etc. -->
<!-- emeritus status approved January 14, 2019; before that Senior Research Professor, since my departure in June 2003; before that Full Professor, etc. -->


* Also:
* Also:
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* Past affiliations (most recent first)
* Past affiliations (most recent first)
** Member of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20191209215514/https://www.fairopenaccess.org/who-we-are/people/ Board] of the [https://www.fairopenaccess.org/ Fair Open Access Alliance] (FOAA)
<!-- started August 2017; stepped down December 9, 2019 -->
** 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://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.knowledgeunlatched.org/about-us/ Library Steering Committee] of [http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/ Knowledge Unlatched] (KU) <!-- started January 2013; 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 -->
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<!-- stepped down again May 27, 2018 -->
<!-- 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 -->
** Faculty Fellow at the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society], 2009-2015.
<!-- starting 7/1/09; I shifted from fellow to senior researcher 9/15 -->
** 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 -->
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080512172458/http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2213865/users-given-voice-european-3923010 Advisory Board] of [http://www.europeanlibrary.org/ The European Library] <!-- since August 6, 2007 -->
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080512172458/http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2213865/users-given-voice-european-3923010 Advisory Board] of [http://www.europeanlibrary.org/ The European Library] <!-- since August 6, 2007 -->
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** Member of the [http://tcfir.org/BOD.cfm Board of Directors] of [http://tcfir.org/ The Center For Internet Research]
** Member of the [http://tcfir.org/BOD.cfm Board of Directors] of [http://tcfir.org/ The Center For Internet Research]
** Member of the External Graduate Faculty of [http://www.umaine.edu/ University of Maine] <!-- (5 yr term, ending June 2012) -->
** Member of the External Graduate Faculty of [http://www.umaine.edu/ University of Maine] <!-- (5 yr term, ending June 2012) -->
** Member of the Advisory Board of JournalReview. (I don't link to it because the web site has since been bought by people in a different line of work.)
** Member of the Advisory Board of [http://web.archive.org/web/20080516091657/http://journalreview.org/ JournalReview].  
<!-- URL = http://www.journalreview.org/ ; still works but doesn't point to the group I once advised -->
<!-- URL = http://www.journalreview.org/ ; still works but doesn't point to the group I once advised -->
** Member of the [http://www.textop.org/advisory_committee.html Advisory Committee] of the [http://www.textop.org/ Text Outline Project]
** Member of the [http://www.textop.org/advisory_committee.html Advisory Committee] of the [http://www.textop.org/ Text Outline Project]
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<!-- since 11/8/06 -->
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060211003605/http://www.niso.org/committees/Journal_versioning/JournalVer_comm.html Journal Article Versions Review Group] of the [http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-8-2008.pdf NISO/ALPSP Journal Article Versions Working Group]. <!-- since c. Feb 2006 -->
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060211003605/http://www.niso.org/committees/Journal_versioning/JournalVer_comm.html Journal Article Versions Review Group] of the [http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-8-2008.pdf NISO/ALPSP Journal Article Versions Working Group]. <!-- since c. Feb 2006 -->
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/*/geodatacommons.umaine.edu/about.php?about=team Advisory Committee] of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20090211091332/http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/index.php Commons of Geographic Data]
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060909044516/geodatacommons.umaine.edu/about.php?about=team Advisory Committee] of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20090211091332/http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/index.php Commons of Geographic Data]
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060721203446/http://science.creativecommons.org/literature/litwg Publishing Working Group] for [http://science.creativecommons.org/ Science Commons]
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060721203446/http://science.creativecommons.org/literature/litwg Publishing Working Group] for [http://web.archive.org/web/20060720052057/http://sciencecommons.org/ Science Commons]
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060207225827/http://www.polimetrica.com/openaccess/editors.html Editorial Advisory Board] for the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060207225840/http://www.polimetrica.com/openaccess/ book series on Open Access] published by [http://web.archive.org/web/20060827142829/http://www.polimetrica.com/en/ Polimetrica]
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060207225827/http://www.polimetrica.com/openaccess/editors.html Editorial Advisory Board] for the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060207225840/http://www.polimetrica.com/openaccess/ book series on Open Access] published by [http://web.archive.org/web/20060827142829/http://www.polimetrica.com/en/ Polimetrica]
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060207194958/http://www.academiccommons.org/about/current-board-members Advisory Board] of [http://www.academiccommons.org/ Academic Commons]
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060207194958/http://www.academiccommons.org/about/current-board-members Advisory Board] of [http://www.academiccommons.org/ Academic Commons]
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** 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)
** Moderator of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20130603105149/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)
** 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 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://web.archive.org/web/20030518201344/http://penbay.org:80/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://web.archive.org/web/20010118201800/http://www.icaap.org:80/ International Consortium For The Advancement of Academic Publication]
** 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]
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* I tweet as [https://twitter.com/petersuber @petersuber].
* I tweet as [https://twitter.com/petersuber @petersuber].
* From July 2011 to April 2019, I blogged lightly at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B Google+], about 1,400 posts over 8 years. Unfortunately, because Google pulled the plug, my G+ blog is no longer online, though I may soon be able to link to an archived copy. See [[History_of_open_access#Google.2B_blog_.282011-present.29 | more details here]]. Also see my handmade [[Selected Google Plus posts | list of major G+ posts]], with links to copies in the [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive].


* From May 2002 to April 2010, I blogged heavily at [https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html 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, 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. OAN is preserved and searchable in several places. See [[History_of_open_access#Open_Access_News_.282002-2010.29 | more details here]].
* From May 2002 to April 2010, I blogged heavily at [https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html 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, 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. OAN is preserved and searchable in several places. See [[History_of_open_access#Open_Access_News_.282002-2010.29 | more details here]].


* I have accounts on Diaspora, Dock, Hastac, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Medium, MeWe, and PASHpost (realizing that not all these are in the same niche). But either I don't use them or I'm still experimenting with them. I deleted my Facebook account after a brief experiment years ago, for reasons like those laid out in this [http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5 2010 article], and updated in this [https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/12/facebook-has-long-history-failing-its-users-massive-data-breach-just-latest-example/221670 2018 article].
* From July 2011 to April 2019, I blogged lightly at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B Google+], about 1,400 posts over 8 years. Because Google pulled the plug on G+, most of those posts are no longer online, though I may soon be able to link to archived copies. See [[History_of_open_access#Google.2B_blog_.282011-present.29 | more details here]]. Also see my handmade [[Selected Google Plus posts | list of major G+ posts]], with links to copies in the [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive].


* Since the death of G+, I've been looking for a new blogging platform.
** My main criteria are convenience for me (not requiring me to host anything), support for open-access posts (not limited to users of the platform), support for links from words and phrases (not limited to spelled-out URLs), support for posts of 1,000 words or longer, support for revising the text after posting, support for comments, support for deep-links to individual posts, and reliance (in whole or part) on free and open-source software.
** So far I haven't found a platform that meets all these criteria. My earlier platforms didn't meet them all either, but I settled and I'm prepared to settle again. I just want to keep exploring first. 
** I have accounts on Diaspora, Dock, Hastac, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Medium, MeWe, Okuna, Openbook, PASHpost, and Substack &mdash; realizing that not all these are in the same niche. Most I've ruled out but I'm still testing a few of them.
** I deleted my experimental Facebook account years ago, for reasons like those laid out in this [http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5 2010 article], and updated in this [https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/12/facebook-has-long-history-failing-its-users-massive-data-breach-just-latest-example/221670 2018 article].
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* Although I'm picky about social-media sites, that doesn't mean that I love ones I use or have used. On the contrary, Twitter (my remaining channel) feeds online centralization, which I oppose. Its surveillance of my online habits takes more from my privacy than it gives back in features or other benefits. It does its part to turn universal Turing machines into dumb terminals plugged in to a corporate cloud. It's not 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, it's deteriorating. (All these objections applied to G+ before its death.) The niche for something better grows larger all the time. Before you write, I recognize that by using it I boost its network effects and help entrench it against better alternatives. That's one reason why I actively scan for emerging alternatives and experiment with the ones I find. Meantime, I keep using a flawed platform because I want the engagement I get from social media, both as a reader and author, and for now, for me, the net benefits exceed the net costs.  
* Although I'm picky about social-media sites, that doesn't mean that I love ones I use or have used. On the contrary, Twitter (my remaining channel) feeds online centralization, which I oppose. Its surveillance of my online habits takes more from my privacy than it gives back in features or other benefits. It does its part to turn universal Turing machines into dumb terminals plugged in to a corporate cloud. It's not 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, it's deteriorating. (All these objections applied to G+ before its death.) The niche for something better grows larger all the time. Before you write, I recognize that by using it I boost its network effects and help entrench it against better alternatives. That's one reason why I actively scan for emerging alternatives and experiment with the ones I find. Meantime, I keep using a flawed platform because I want the engagement I get from social media, both as a reader and author, and for now, for me, the net benefits exceed the net costs.  
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== Related pages ==
== Related pages ==


* [https://library.harvard.edu/staff/peter-suber Harvard Library profile].
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/psuber Berkman Klein Center profile].
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/psuber Berkman Klein Center profile].
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Suber Wikipedia profile]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Suber Wikipedia profile]
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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://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ogK4ZGQAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar profile].  
* [http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ogK4ZGQAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar profile].  
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/hometoc.htm Earlham College home page]. (Mostly superseded by the present home page.)
* [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/hometoc.htm Earlham College home page] ([https://perma.cc/VLC9-YH3F perma.cc link]). Mostly superseded by the present home page.
* [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 Curriculum vitae]. Abridged and dated. Contact me if you need an unabridged and updated version.


* Archived sites and pages
* Archived sites and pages
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* My page on [[Conflicts|conflicts of interest]].
* My page on [[Conflicts|conflicts of interest]].
** This is the only place where I try to list the sources of my past and present funding.


== Contacting me ==
== Contacting me ==
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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> and <peter_suber@g.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.  
** I'm phasing out <psuber@law.harvard.edu>, <psuber@cyber.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.  
* Email is the best way to reach me. If you want to contact me by phone, text, 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 17:01, 20 February 2020

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.
  • Since 2001 or so, my interests have centered on policies, practices, and technologies that foster research, especially those that foster the growth, sharing, reliability, use, and usefulness of research. In addition to promoting these policies, practices, and technologies, I want to understand how the internet has changed research, how it ought to change research, and what it would mean to take full advantage of the internet for research.

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 remained an unremunerated research professor at Earlham until 2019, when I became emeritus.

Social media

  • From May 2002 to April 2010, I blogged heavily 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, 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. OAN is preserved and searchable in several places. See more details here.
  • From July 2011 to April 2019, I blogged lightly at Google+, about 1,400 posts over 8 years. Because Google pulled the plug on G+, most of those posts are no longer online, though I may soon be able to link to archived copies. See more details here. Also see my handmade list of major G+ posts, with links to copies in the Internet Archive.
  • Since the death of G+, I've been looking for a new blogging platform.
    • My main criteria are convenience for me (not requiring me to host anything), support for open-access posts (not limited to users of the platform), support for links from words and phrases (not limited to spelled-out URLs), support for posts of 1,000 words or longer, support for revising the text after posting, support for comments, support for deep-links to individual posts, and reliance (in whole or part) on free and open-source software.
    • So far I haven't found a platform that meets all these criteria. My earlier platforms didn't meet them all either, but I settled and I'm prepared to settle again. I just want to keep exploring first.
    • I have accounts on Diaspora, Dock, Hastac, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Medium, MeWe, Okuna, Openbook, PASHpost, and Substack — realizing that not all these are in the same niche. Most I've ruled out but I'm still testing a few of them.
    • I deleted my experimental Facebook account years ago, for reasons like those laid out in this 2010 article, and updated in this 2018 article.

Related pages

  • My page on conflicts of interest.
    • This is the only place where I try to list the sources of my past and present funding.

Contacting me

  • My primary email addresses are peter_suber@harvard.edu and peter.suber@gmail.com.
    • I also use <psuber@cyber.law.harvard.edu> and <peter_suber@g.harvard.edu>.
    • I'm phasing out <psuber@law.harvard.edu>, <psuber@cyber.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, 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