Peter Suber
Peter Dain Suber (born November 8, 1951) is an American philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge. He is a Senior Researcher at the
.Education
Suber graduated from Earlham College in 1973, received a PhD degree in philosophy in 1978, writing a dissertation on Søren Kierkegaard[9] and a Juris Doctor degree in 1982, both from Northwestern University.
Career
Previously, Suber was senior
Suber worked as a
Suber participated in the 2001 meeting that led to the world's first major international open access initiative, the
In philosophy, Suber is the author of The Paradox of Self-Amendment,[13] the first book-length study of self-referential paradoxes in law, and The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions,[14] the first book-length "rehearing" of Lon Fuller's classic, fictional case. He has also written many articles on self-reference, ethics, formal and informal logic, the philosophy of law, and the history of philosophy.[15]
He has written many articles on open access to science and scholarship.[16] His 2012 book, Open Access, was published by MIT Press and released under a Creative Commons license.[3] His latest book is a collection of 44 of his most influential articles about open access, Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002–2010, also published by MIT Press under a Creative Commons license.[17]
Suber has directed the development of
Honours and awards
Personal life
Suber is married to Liffey Thorpe, professor emerita of Classics at Earlham College, with whom he has two daughters. Since 2003, he and Thorpe have resided in Brooksville, Maine.[21]
His mother was Grace Mary Stern,[22] who served in both houses of the Illinois state legislature.
Selected publications
- Knowledge Unbound (MIT Press, 2016)[a]
- Peter Suber (20 July 2012), Open Access, Wikidata Q54410433 . Updates and supplements
- The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions (Routledge, 1998)
- The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Logic, Law, Omnipotence, and Change (Peter Lang Publishing, 1990)
- Self-Reference: Reflections on Reflexivity, co-edited with Steven J. Bartlett (Martinus Nijhoff, 1987)
Notes
- Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License) and may be downloaded for free from the Internet Archive.[23]
References
- ^ a b "L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award". 8 January 2007.
- ^ a b Peter Suber publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c Suber 2012.
- ^ "Home | Harvard OSC". osc.hul.harvard.edu.
- ^ a b "Harvard Open Access Project". cyber.harvard.edu.
- Microsoft Academic
- S2CID 46332553.
- ^ "Keeping Up To Date On Scholarly Communication Issues". Library.uiuc.edu. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
- ProQuest 302891187.(subscription required)
- ^ "SPARC". Arl.org. 2009-11-06. Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
- ^ "Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) - EOS - Home". Archived from the original on 2010-06-15.
- ^ Beavers, Anthony F. (2011). "Noesis and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision". Synthese. 182 (2): 315–33.
- ISBN 0-8204-1212-0.
- ISBN 0-415-18546-7.
- ^ Suber, Peter. "Writings". Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
- ^ Suber, Peter. "Writings on Open Access". Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
- ISBN 978-0262528498.
- ^ "Lingua Franca July/August 1999". linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org.
- ^ "The Charleston Advisor From Your Managing Editor Sixth Annual Readers' Choice Awards". charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-08-08.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Liffey's Home Page". Earlham College.
- ^ "Ex-Legislator, Grace Mary Stern". Chicago Tribune = 19 May 1998.
- ^ Suber, Peter (2016). "Knowledge Unbound". MIT Press.
Further reading
- Suber, P. (2002). "Open access to the scientific journal literature". Journal of Biology. 1 (1): 3. PMID 12144706.
- Suber, P. (2002). "Where does the free online scholarship movement stand today?". Cortex. 38 (2): 261–264. S2CID 4487298.
- Suber, P. (2003). "Open access: Other ways". Nature. 426 (6962): 15. PMID 14603286.
- Suber, P. (2003). ""Author pays" publishing model: Answering to some objections". BMJ. 327 (7405): 54. PMID 12842973.
- Suber, P. (2005). "Open access, impact, and demand". BMJ. 330 (7500): 1097–1098. PMID 15891208.
- Suber, P. (2008). "An open access mandate for the National Institutes of Health". Open Medicine. 2 (2): e39–e41. PMID 21602938.
- Suber, P. (2012). "Ensuring open access for publicly funded research". BMJ. 345: e5184. PMID 22875953.
External links
- Suber's home page
- Open Access News Archived 2008-01-17 at the Wayback Machine (Suber's former blog, May 2002 - April 2010)
- SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) Archived 2013-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (Suber's former newsletter, March 2001 - June 2013)
- Peter Suber's Writings on Open Access
- Peter Suber's writings on philosophy and other subjects
- Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)
- Open Access Directory (OAD)
- Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) (OCLC 1040261573)
- Peter Suber publications indexed by Google Scholar