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As Techdirt has reported , open access (OA) is scoring more and more major wins currently. But the battle to gain free access to academi...

It's now widely recognized that the extreme demands of SOPA/PIPA catalyzed a new activism within the Net world, epitomized by the bla...

Before Peter Suber became Mr Open Access, he was a philosopher by trade. This is evident in the long, thoughtful essays he writes for the S...

As Peter Suber rightly points out , this paper offers a reversal of the usual argument, where open access is justified by analogy with open...

Peter Suber's indispensable SPARC Open Access Newsletter, whose latest issue has just appeared, contains some interesting thoughts of r...

Open Access is a movement that works for the free online availability of research materials. As one of the best short introductions to the s...

I hate Richard Poynder. Well, not exactly "hate". I'm just continually miffed that he not only keeps interviewing the very ...

Peter Suber has the relevant quotations - and the full rebuttals of the misinformation therein. No "surrender"....

The young field of open education is gaining momentum and energy. As additional projects, foundations, universities, and other participants ...

Peter Suber is widely acknowledged as the linch-pin of the open access movement, but an ironic consequence of this is that his own writings ...

A few months ago, I had the temerity to suggest the following: Definitions matter. If you want to see why, compare the worlds of open sourc...

The Budapest Open Access Initiative ( BOAI ) is the nearest thing to an official definition of open access that we have. Today is apparentl...

Definitions matter. If you want to see why, compare the worlds of open source and open access. The very specific definition of what is ope...

Now here's a nice way to end the year - and to start the next: The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all ...

There is some long-living FUD abroad in the open access world: that the only way OA journals work is by charging authors - the "author-...

There can be little doubt that the principal voice in the open access conversation is that of Peter Suber, who tirelessly gathers every crum...

This is something I've been waiting for: an in-depth interview with Peter Suber , the person who has done more than anyone to drive the...

Ho-ho, things are hotting up among the opponents of open access: The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine (PRISM) w...

A little while back I wrote about the idea of using wikis for open government. Peter Suber - about whom Bill Hooker commented recently &qu...

Peter Suber has long been recognised as the official chronicler of the open access movement; now, with the publication of this paean , it s...