The Philosophy of Open Access

Use the link to access the interview of Peter Suber by Christopher Kenneally of the Copyright Clearance Center.  The podcast has been uploaded to figshare.  "It’s fair to say that most who know about Open Access (OA) in reasonable detail will be aware of the name Professor Peter Suber. 'I work for the free circulation of science and scholarship in every field and language. In practice that means research, writing, organizing, and pro bono consulting for open access to research. I wear several hats: Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Senior Researcher at SPARC, Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, and Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College”. Suber was written a handful of books, the most recent is simply entitled “Open Access” (MIT Press, June 2012). The book will become OA (CC-BY) one year after publication. Over the years, he has done a large number of talks/presentations and a small number of interviews. The most recent was with Christopher Kenneally of the Copyright Clearance Centre which was uploaded as a podcast earlier this week. The interview lasts 26 minutes and is most certainly worth a listen in full.  In contrast to previous interviews, this one covers in some detail the philosophy of OA. If you don’t have time to listen to it in full, here are some of the highlights..."