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

Interview with Peter Suber – Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, Senior Researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Earlham College. 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. Interview topics covered include but are not limited to: A brief history of Open Access - Peter Suber’s Open Access story Open Access and its language defined Open Access highlights of the last "5,10 or 15" years: Open Infrastructure 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 Plan S and other big funders moves toward Open Access Transformative Agreements International responses to the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) San Francisco DORA statement Leiden Manifesto Controlled Digital Lending Corporate capture of proprietary infrastructure and its scholarly content Structural equity – challenges and green shoots Open peer review The "perfect" Australian Open Access polic