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


== My work and primary affiliations ==
== My work and primary affiliations ==
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== 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://freejournals.org/fjn-organization/governance/ Advisory Committee] of the [https://freejournals.org/ Free Journal Network].
** Member of the [https://openclimatecampaign.org/about-us/ Steering Committee] of the [https://openclimatecampaign.org/ Open Climate Campaign] (OCC).
<!-- since March 30, 2020 -->
** [https://incentivizingopen.org/Team/ Strategist] for [https://incentivizingopen.org/ Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research] (ICOR).
<!-- formally since March 1, 2022, informally since Jan 14, 2022 -->
** Member of the [https://osf.io/b5vxe/wiki/home/ Advisory Council] of the [https://osf.io/zb9g6/wiki/home/ Library Partnership Certification] project (LPC). <!-- since c. March 2022, though I was advising them long before that -->
** Member of the [https://freejournals.org/fjn-organization/governance/ Advisory Committee] of the [https://freejournals.org/ Free Journal Network] (FJN). <!-- since March 30, 2020 -->
** Member of the [https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/editorial-board/ Editorial Board] of the [https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/ Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review]
** 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 -->
<!-- since 10/19 or before; forget when Irene asked me; prior to launch on January 16, 2020 -->
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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 [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://web.archive.org/web/20170209170521/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 -->
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** 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-->
** 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 SPARC [https://sparcopen.org/people/open-access-working-group/ Open Access Working Group] <!-- from the beginning; c 2003 -->
** Member of the SPARC [https://sparcopen.org/people/open-access-working-group/ Open Access Working Group] <!-- from the beginning; c 2003 -->
** 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]
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** Member of the [http://eexplor.org/open-culture/scicomm Scientific Committee] of [http://eexplor.org/open-culture/ Open Culture]  
** Member of the [http://eexplor.org/open-culture/scicomm Scientific Committee] of [http://eexplor.org/open-culture/ Open Culture]  
<!-- since 11/8/06 -->
<!-- since 11/8/06 -->
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20090814175038/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://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/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/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]
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* I tweet as [https://twitter.com/petersuber @petersuber].
* I tweet as [https://twitter.com/petersuber @petersuber].
** I like Twitter for what it does well, but [[Not on Twitter please | not for everything]].
<!-- ** I like Twitter for what it does well, but [[Not on Twitter please | not for everything]].
I'm commenting this out because I don't want to have these conversations on my pubpub blog -->


* Blogging
* Blogging
** 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, including [https://web.archive.org/web/20110224045531/http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html the Internet Archive Wayback Machine]. 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, including the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110224045531/http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html Internet Archive Wayback Machine]. See [[History_of_open_access#Open_Access_News_.282002-2010.29 | more details here]].
** From July 2011 to April 2019, I blogged lightly at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B Google+], about 1,200 posts over 8 years. Google pulled the plug on G+ in April 2019 and deleted all the posts. However, I saved many of them to the [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive] and nearly all of them to [https://conifer.rhizome.org/petersuber/peter-suber-g-blog Conifer]. See [[History_of_open_access#Google.2B_blog_.282011-2019.29 | more details here]].  
** From July 2011 to April 2019, I blogged lightly at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B Google+], about 1,200 posts over 8 years. Google pulled the plug on G+ in April 2019 and deleted all the posts. However, I saved many of them to the [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive] and nearly all of them to [https://conifer.rhizome.org/petersuber/peter-suber-g-blog Conifer]. See [[History_of_open_access#Google.2B_blog_.282011-2019.29 | more details here]].  
<!-- I once said here that I'd written about 1,400 posts; not sure why I thought that; but I only *saved* about 1,200 to Conifer; so I'm using that number here; my dim recollection is that I saved most but not all my G+ posts; so the right number might be 1,400 -->
<!-- I once said here that I'd written about 1,400 posts; not sure why I thought that; but I only *saved* about 1,200 to Conifer; so I'm using that number here; my dim recollection is that I saved most but not all my G+ posts; so the right number might be 1,400 -->
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== 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. Email [mailto:osc@harvard.edu osc@harvard.edu]. -->
<!-- ** The OSC staff assistant is [mailto:sarah_kinne@harvard.edu Sarah Kinne]. -->
 
<center><span style="background:yellow">'''I'm working remotely during the pandemic. No point calling my office phone number. Stay well.'''</span></center>
 
* My office is in [https://goo.gl/maps/0lmPc Widener Library], Room G-20.
 
* 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> and <peter_suber@g.harvard.edu>.
** 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.  
** 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, Zoom, 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 leave me voicemail, I may not hear it for months. If you send me a fax, or a direct message by social media, I may not see it at all.  
* Email is the best way to reach me. If you want to contact me by phone, text, Zoom, snail mail, or some other way, then send me an email and I'll tell you how. <!-- Please don't try voicemail or fax. -->
 
* All my Harvard work is [https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/Shifting_to_half-time now remote]. It's no longer possible to meet F2F in Cambridge, call me at an office phone number, or send me snail mail to a campus address.
 





Revision as of 12:25, 22 September 2022

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

My work and primary affiliations

  • I work for the free circulation of knowledge and research in every field and region. In practice that means education, collaboration, research, writing, tool-building, direct assistance, and pro bono consulting for open access. I wear two hats:
  • 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 old 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, or as soon as I can revert the rights, whichever comes first.

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

  • I was a professor of philosophy at Earlham College for 21 years (1982-2003). I also taught computer science and law. When I stepped down in 2003 to work full-time on OA, I was a tenured senior professor. I'm now a professor emeritus.

Social media

  • Blogging
    • 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, including the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. See more details here.
    • From July 2011 to April 2019, I blogged lightly at Google+, about 1,200 posts over 8 years. Google pulled the plug on G+ in April 2019 and deleted all the posts. However, I saved many of them to the Internet Archive and nearly all of them to Conifer. See more details here.
    • In May 2020 I started a new blog on PubPub.

Related pages

  • My 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, Zoom, snail mail, or some other way, then send me an email and I'll tell you how.
  • All my Harvard work is now remote. It's no longer possible to meet F2F in Cambridge, call me at an office phone number, or send me snail mail to a campus address.


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

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