Open and Shut?: The OA Interviews: Harvard’s Stuart Shieber

Richard Poynder interviews Stuart Shieber. Excerpt: "When in 1989 Stuart Shieber became a Harvard faculty member he was, for reasons he never fully understood, appointed to a series of library committees....As he sat through the various committee meetings, Shieber began to see the world through the lens of the library, a perspective that led him to the inevitable conclusion that there was something amiss in the world of scholarly communication...."