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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 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 ==


* 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book) open access]. I wear several hats:
* 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 [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book) open access]. I wear two hats:
** 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 -->
** Senior Advisor on Open Access (based in [http://library.harvard.edu/ Harvard Library]). <!-- since 1/1/22 -->
** 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 -->
<!-- * In my ''pro bono'' consulting, I work with universities, libraries, funders, societies, publishers, governments, nonprofit advocacy groups, tool-builders, start-ups, and individual researchers. Among other things, I advise on OA policies, practices, strategies, and answers to frequently heard questions, objections, and misunderstandings. -->
 
* I'm a few steps into [https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/Shifting_to_half-time phased retirement].


* 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20140114005559/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]. -->


* '''On open access'''
* '''On open access'''
** See the [[Writings on open access|bibliography of my writings on open access]] (with links to OA editions).
** See the [[Writings on open access|bibliography of my writings on open access]] (with links to OA editions).
** 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210508012624/http://legacy.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, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110224045531/http://legacy.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]]
** See 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'''
** 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?filtertype_1=author&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=&query=peter+suber&scope=%2F section of DASH] (the Harvard open-access repository), my [https://web.archive.org/web/20110222153151/http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/hometoc.htm old 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 ;
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** 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, or as soon as I can revert the rights, whichever comes first.
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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 my interests have centered on policies, practices, and technologies that foster research, especially those that foster open access to research and the growth, quality, use, reuse, 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 Advisory Board of [https://iris.ai/aiur/ Project Aiur] Since May 16, 2018. Just waiting for link to board page. -->
** Member of the [https://arc-alliance.unc.edu/arc-leadership/#tabs-0-1 Advisory Board] of the [https://arc-alliance.unc.edu/ ARC Alliance].
<!-- since July 28, 2023 -->
** Member of the [https://openclimatecampaign.org/about-us/ Steering Committee] of the [https://openclimatecampaign.org/ Open Climate Campaign] (OCC).
** [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://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]
<!-- 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 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]  
** Member of the [https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/open2020/Open+2020+Working+Group+Home Open 2020 Working Group]
<!-- since March 21, 2019 -->
** 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
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. -->
** 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 -->
** Member of the [http://oa-cooperative.org/participants.html Advisory Board] of the [http://oa-cooperative.org/ Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study] <!-- since 6/15/15 -->
** Member of the [http://blog.onerepo.net/advisory-board/ Advisory Board] of [http://onerepo.net/ OneRepo] <!-- since June 2015 -->
** Member of the [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/odap/advisory-board Advisory Board] of the Harvard [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/odap Open Data Assistance Program] (ODAP) <!-- since Oct 2014 -->
** Founding member of the [http://www.authorsalliance.org/ Authors Alliance] <!-- since May 21, 2014 -->
** Founding member of the [http://www.authorsalliance.org/ Authors Alliance] <!-- since May 21, 2014 -->
** 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://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://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 [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 -->
** 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 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]
** Research Professor of Philosophy at [http://www.earlham.edu/ Earlham College]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20210301032441/https://earlham.edu/people/emeriti-faculty/ Professor of Philosophy Emeritus] at [http://www.earlham.edu/ Earlham College]
<!-- 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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** 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
** Principal drafter of the [http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read Budapest Open Access Initiative] (February 2002) and the [http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations BOAI 10 year anniversary statement] (September 2012)
** Principal drafter of the [http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read Budapest Open Access Initiative] (February 2002), the [https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai10/ BOAI 10 year anniversary statement] (September 2012), and the [https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/ BOAI 20 year anniversary statement] (March 2022).
** Creator of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic Nomic], 1982
** Creator of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic Nomic], 1982


== Background and past 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.  
* 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.  


* Past affiliations (most recent first)
* Past affiliations (most recent first)
** 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; stepped down Feb 16, 2023 -->
** Director of the [http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/ Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication] <!-- 7/1/13 - 12/31/21 -->
** Member of the Review Committee for the [https://council.science/ International Science Council] (ISC), for its March 2021 report on [https://council.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-02-19-Opening-the-record-of-science.pdf Opening the Record of Science].
<!-- starting May 2020;
no explicit end date; but I assume my role ended when ISC released the doc I reviewed (link above), March 2021  -->
** 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 -->
** Senior Researcher at the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society] <!-- Faculty Fellow starting 7/1/09; Senior Researcher starting 9/15 -->
** Member of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20160313105030/http://oa-cooperative.org/participants.html Advisory Board] of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20160106145155/http://oa-cooperative.org/ Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study] <!-- since 6/15/15 -->
** Member of the [http://blog.onerepo.net/advisory-board/ Advisory Board] of [http://onerepo.net/ OneRepo] <!-- since June 2015 -->
** Member of the [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/odap/advisory-board Advisory Board] of the Harvard [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/odap Open Data Assistance Program] (ODAP) <!-- since Oct 2014 -->
** Member of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150125053530/https://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-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 -->
** [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 --> <!-- stepped down again July 11, 2023 -->
<!-- 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 -->
** 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 -->
** 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 -->
** Visiting Fellow at the [https://law.yale.edu/isp Information Society Project] (ISP) of [http://www.law.yale.edu/ Yale Law School]  
<!-- since 1/08 -->
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** 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162603/https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board Advisory Board] of the [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Wikimedia Foundation]
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** Member of the Editorial Board of [http://ojs.gsu.edu/oar Open Access Research]
** Member of the Editorial Board of [http://ojs.gsu.edu/oar Open Access Research]
** 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 [http://www.journalreview.org/ JournalReview]
** Member of the Advisory Board of [http://web.archive.org/web/20080516091657/http://journalreview.org/ JournalReview].
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** 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]
** Member of the [http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/advisorygroup Advisory Group] of the [http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/ Open Access to Knowledge Law Project]
** Member of the [http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/advisorygroup Advisory Group] of the [http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/ Open Access to Knowledge Law Project]
** 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]  
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** 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/*/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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** 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]
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** Editorial consultant to [http://noesis.evansville.edu/ Noesis: Philosophical Research Online]
** Editorial consultant to [http://noesis.evansville.edu/ Noesis: Philosophical Research Online]
** Member of the Executive Committee of the [http://iacap.org/ International Association for Computing and Philosophy] and co-editor of its [http://iacap.org/library.htm Virtual Library of Philosophy]
** Member of the Executive Committee of the [http://iacap.org/ International Association for Computing and Philosophy] and co-editor of its [http://iacap.org/library.htm Virtual Library of Philosophy]
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** Co-Editor of [http://noesis.evansville.edu Noesis: Philosophical Research On-Line]
** Co-Editor of [http://noesis.evansville.edu Noesis: Philosophical Research On-Line]
** General Editor of [http://web.archive.org/web/20030623021849/http://hippias.evansville.edu/ Hippias, The Limited-Area Search Engine for Philosophy]
** General Editor of [http://web.archive.org/web/20030623021849/http://hippias.evansville.edu/ Hippias, The Limited-Area Search Engine for Philosophy]
== Social media ==
* On Mastodon I'm [https://fediscience.org/web/@petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org].
** To read or follow my Mastodon posts without having a Mastodon account, use the [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber HTML version] or the [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber.rss RSS feed].
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<!-- ** 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 -->
* On X/Twitter I'm [https://twitter.com/petersuber @petersuber]. But I essentially stopped posting when Elon Musk took over in late 2022.
* On Bluesky I'm [https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.bsky.social @petersuber]. But for now I read without posting.
* 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 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]. Here's a [https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/Selected_Google_Plus_posts subset of them]. [[History_of_open_access#Google.2B_blog_.282011-2019.29 | More details here]].
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** In May 2020 I started a [https://suber.pubpub.org/ new blog on PubPub]. But I seldom post.
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* 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 (or had) accounts on Diaspora, Dock, Hastac, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Medium, MeWe, Okuna, Openbook, PASHpost, PubPub, 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.
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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]
* [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289028 Wikidata profile]
* [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289028 Wikidata profile]
* [https://whosum.com/t/petersuber Possum ID].
* [https://scholia.toolforge.org/author/Q289028 Scholia profile]
* [http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3577-2890 ORCID profile]. My ORCID = 0000-0002-3577-2890.
* [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://isni.org/isni/0000000035796302 ISNI profile]. My ISNI ID = 0000 0000 3579 6302.
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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]. (Superseded by the present home page.)
* [http://legacy.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.
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* Archived sites and pages
* Archived sites and pages
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* Also see my page on [[Conflicts|conflicts of interest]].
* My [[Conflicts|conflicts of interest]].
 
** This is the only place where I try to list the sources of my past and present funding.
== Social media ==
 
* 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].
** 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 data-sucking threats to privacy. Plus, they're both deteriorating. The niche for something better grows larger all the time. I recognize that by using them, I 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]].
 
* 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].  
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<!-- ** The OSC staff assistant is [mailto:sarah_kinne@harvard.edu Sarah Kinne]. -->
* 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'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.


* My office is in [https://goo.gl/maps/0lmPc Widener Library], Room G-20.
* 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. -->


* My primary email addresses are [mailto:peter_suber@harvard.edu peter_suber@harvard.edu] and [mailto:peter.suber@gmail.com peter.suber@gmail.com].
* 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.
** I also use <psuber@cyber.law.harvard.edu>.
** I no longer use <psuber@law.harvard.edu> and I'm phasing out <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.





Latest revision as of 10:07, 26 February 2024

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 my interests have centered on policies, practices, and technologies that foster research, especially those that foster open access to research and the growth, quality, use, reuse, 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

  • On X/Twitter I'm @petersuber. But I essentially stopped posting when Elon Musk took over in late 2022.
  • On Bluesky I'm @petersuber. But for now I read without posting.
  • 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. Here's a subset of them. More details here.
    • In May 2020 I started a new blog on PubPub. But I seldom post.

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