Interview with Peter Suber: Unlocking Knowledge for Social Equity (for International Open Access Week 2021)

<p>Interview with Peter Suber &ndash; Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, Senior Researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society, and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Earlham College.</p> <p>In the view of many, Peter Suber has been a generous leader and guide not only among, but also to the brightest lights, clearest thinkers and most effective of collaborative practitioners in the Open Access to scholarly research movement - for at least the last two decades. In this wide ranging and timely interview for International Open Access Week 2021, Peter gives his expert, fact-based opinion on the origin, location and potential destination of various core elements of the Open Access movement and the scholarly communication system which it is so clearly shaping - now at speed.</p> <p>Interview topics covered include but are not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>A brief history of Open Access - Peter Suber&rsquo;s Open Access story</li> <li>Open Access and its language defined</li> <li>Open Access highlights of the last &quot;5,10 or 15&quot; years: <ul> <li>Open Infrastructure <ul> <li>The Next Generation Repositories (NGR) project by the Coalition of Open Access Repositories (COAR) - over 4,000 institutional repositories in place to accelerate repository-based (Green) Open Access</li> </ul> </li> <li>Plan S and other big funders moves toward Open Access</li> <li>Transformative Agreements</li> <li>International responses to the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) <ul> <li>San Francisco DORA statement</li> <li>Leiden Manifesto</li> </ul> </li> <li>Controlled Digital Lending</li> </ul> </li> <li>Corporate capture of proprietary infrastructure and its scholarly content</li> <li>Structural equity &ndash; challenges and green shoots</li> <li>Open peer review</li> <li>The &quot;perfect&quot; Australian Open Access policy</li> </ul>