Professor Peter Suber joins me this week on Open Views for an in-depth look at some of the historical background for Open Access, the current state of OA around the world, and the challenges posed by traditional publishing companies.

Peter Suber is currently Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, a Washington DC based public interest group working to defend your rights in the emerging digital culture.

He is also Senior Researcher at The Scholarly Publication and Academic Research Coalition (SPARC), and Research Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Earlham College in Richmond Indiana.

Suber was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, the Advisory Board of American Library Association Information Commons, and the Board of Governors of the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publishing.

He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, writing, speaking, and other forms of advocacy.

See also: Richard Poynder's recent interview with Prof. Suber, and Suber's Open Access Newsletter