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Paul Harvey Peters (born 24th September 1982) is the President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Access publisher Hindawi. Peters is known for his work as an advocate for open access.[1][2] (in particular Gold Open Access) and research integrity in the published literature[3][4][5]
Early life
Paul Harvey Peters was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 24th September 1982 where his parents both taught chemistry at Harvard. The family moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1984 where Paul went to Bixby Elementary School, Baseline Middle School and Fairview High School.
Education
He was educated at the College of William and Mary from 2000 to 2004 where he completed his bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern Studies. While at William and Mary, he did his junior year abroad at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
Professional Life
Upon finishing college aged 22, Peters returned to Cairo where he already had friends from AUC. He looked for a temporary job and took up a proof-reading position at Hindawi where he was later promoted to Head of Business Development. At the time, Hindawi was a subscription publisher with a portfolio of 14 journals[6]. He led the conversion of Hindawi’s journal portfolio to open access, making it one of the first subscription publishers to convert fully to an APC-funded open access model in 2007[7][8][9]
In 2008, Hindawi joined 9 other publishers to found the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) which was born out of the Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communications. He was a founding board member of OASPA and was elected President of the organization on March 15, 2013[10][11]
In 2015, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Hindawi[12]. He restructured the company creating a new limited liability company located in London, Hindawi Ltd[13]. In 2017, he instigated Hindawi’s resignation from the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers in protest over their lack of support for open access publishing[14]. Peters has also been critical of the blacklisting of certain open access journals by librarian Jeffrey Beal[15]
Paul is currently serving as a Nominated Member on the European Commission’s working group on the development and implementation of open science in Europe – the European Open Science Policy Platform[16]. He has been on the Board of Directors of Crossref since 2009[17] and is a former member of the board of STM. He was interviewed for the forthcoming feature length documentary about open access, Paywall: the business of scholarship[18]
Personal life
Peters is an enthusiastic amateur skydiver
Family
His mother is Veronica Vaida, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
References
- ^ http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/2007/papers/24/
- ^ http://eresources.lub.lu.se/files/public/docs/pdf/NCSC/abstract_peters.pdf
- ^ https://oaspa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Paul-Peters-Slides-A-Publisher%E2%80%99s-View-on-Research-Integrity.pptx
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/05/imposter-poses-as-expert-scientist-to-mysteriously-peer-review-work-for-scientific-journal/?utm_term=.81ebf3f2f525
- ^ http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Omega-3-article-retracted-after-suspicions-raised-on-author
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20040611225958/http://hindawi.com:80/
- ^ http://www.sr.ithaka.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SCA_BMS_CaseStudy_Hindawi.pdf
- ^ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1087/095315107X204049/pdf
- ^ http://www.infotoday.com/IT/dec10/Kho.shtml
- ^ https://oaspa.org/announcing-new-president-of-oaspa/
- ^ https://www.researchinformation.info/news/paul-peters-becomes-oaspa-president
- ^ https://about.hindawi.com/team/paul-peters/
- ^ https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/vu30ADZtChOSUDD_P0A-BeKCYHs/appointments
- ^ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/02/13/49197/
- ^ https://www.nature.com/news/investigating-journals-the-dark-side-of-publishing-1.12666
- ^ https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-policy-platform
- ^ https://www.crossref.org/board-and-governance/
- ^ http://paywallthemovie.com/
External links
- OASPA home page
- Hindawi website
- Paul Peters on Twitter
- Interview on the challenges of sustainability (SPARC-ACRL Forum on Emerging Issues in Scholarly Communication, 2007)
- Lecture at the 13th Berlin Open Access Conference, March 2017
- Presentation at the 13th Berlin Open Access Conference, March 2017