Peter Suber

Peter Suber is the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, a public-interest advocacy group in Washington D.C.

BIO

Peter Suber's Public Knowledge has been focusing on information policy. Suber is also a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College and Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D. from Northwestern University. He is the author of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter and editor of the Open Access News weblog. He was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, the Publishing Working Group of Science Commons, the Advisory Board of American Library Association Information Commons, and the Board of Governors of the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publishing. Lingua Franca magazine named him one of "Academia's 20 Most Wired Faculty" in 1999. He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, speaking, and writing. For more details, see his home page.

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Peter Suber

Peter Suber (born November 8, 1951) is the creator of the game Nomic and a leader in the open access movement. He is a research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, the open access project director at Public Knowledge, and a senior researcher at SPARC.

Suber graduated from Earlham College in 1973, received a PhD in Philosophy in 1978 and a JD in 1982, both from Northwestern University. He worked as a stand-up comic from 1976 to 1981, including an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1976.

Suber participated in the 2001 meeting that led to the world's first major international open access initiative, the Budapest Open Access Initiative. He writes Open Access News and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, considered the most authoritative blog and newsletter on open access.

Suber married Liffey Thorpe, a classicist who also taught at Earlham College. Since 2003 they have lived in a small town on the Maine coast.

External links

Personal website/ Open Access News (Suber's blog/ SPARC Open Access Newsletter (Suber's newsletter/ Peter Suber's Writings on Open Access