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Begin forwarded message: > From: "Richard Poynder" <[email protected]> > Date: July 23, 2013, 3:44:02 AM EDT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [BOAI] Peter Suber on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what > still needs to be done? > Reply-To: [email protected] > > The eighth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has > been published. On this occasion the questions are answered by Peter Suber, > de facto leader of the OA movement. > > Philosopher, jurist, and one-time stand-up comic, Peter Suber was one of the > small group of people invited by the Soros Foundation to the Budapest Open > Access Initiative (BOAI) meeting held in Hungary in 2001. It was in Budapest > that the term Open Access was coined, and a definition of OA agreed. > > And it was Suber who drafted that definition, doing so with words that still > stir, inspire, and motivate OA advocates everywhere. > > It was also Suber who chose to make the biggest sacrifice for the cause. In > 2003 he gave up his position as a tenured full professor to become a > full-time advocate for the movement, swapping secure employment for a series > of uncertain, short-term grants. > > But Suber’s commitment and hard work for the OA cause has been rewarded. In > 2003 he was named Senior Researcher for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic > Resources Coalition (SPARC), in 2009 he received a joint fellowship at > Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and in 2011 he > became Director of the Harvard Open Access Project. His relationship with > Harvard deepened this year when he was appointed the new Director of > Harvard’s Office of Scholarly Communication, replacing Stuart Shieber, the > architect of the Harvard OA mandates. > > Suber is also the author of the definitive book on Open Access, which is > itself now available OA. > > Who better then than Peter Suber to summarise the current state of Open > Access, outline what still needs to be done, and suggest what the priorities > should be? > > The Q&A with Suber is available here: > > http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/peter-suber-on-state-of-open-access.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from the BOAI Forum, use the form on this page: > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/boai-forum
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