Paul Peters (publisher)

Paul Peters in 2017

Paul Harvey Peters (born September 24, 1982)[1] is the President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), the Chair of Crossref, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Access publisher Hindawi. Peters is known for his work as an advocate for Open Access,[2][3] open infrastructure for Open Science,[4] and research integrity in the published literature.[5][6][7]

Early life

Paul Harvey Peters was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 24, 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 spent his junior year abroad at the American University in Cairo (AUC).

Professional life

Upon finishing college aged 21, Peters returned to Cairo. He applied for a temporary copy editing position at Hindawi, but was then hired to develop Hindawi's Open Access journal program. At the time, Hindawi was a subscription publisher with a portfolio of 14 journals.[8] 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.[9][10][11]

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.[12][13]

In 2015, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Hindawi.[14] He restructured the company creating a new limited liability company located in London, Hindawi Ltd.[1] In 2017, he instigated Hindawi’s resignation from the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) in protest over their lack of support for open access publishing[15]. Peters has also been critical of the blacklisting of certain open access journals by librarian Jeffrey Beall.[16]

Peters served 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[17] from 2016 to 2017. He has been on the Board of Directors of Crossref since 2009 where he is currently the Board Chair,[18] and he is a former board members of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers. He was interviewed for the forthcoming feature length documentary about open access, Paywall: the business of scholarship.[19]

Personal life

Peters has lived in London since 2013. He is an amateur skydiver and a vegan.[20]

Family

His mother is Veronica Vaida is an atmospheric chemist and his father, Kevin Peters is an emeritus professor of chemistry (both at the University of Colorado Boulder). He has one sister, Katherine Heaton (nee Peters) who is an attorney.

References

  1. 1 2 "Paul Harvey PETERS - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk.
  2. ↑ Paul, Peters, (14 June 2007). "Beyond Access".
  3. ↑ Paul, Peters, (21 April 2008). "A year of exciting developments for Hindawi" (PDF). Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication.
  4. ↑ "A radically open approach to developing infrastructure for open science". Hindawi. October 2017.
  5. ↑ Paul, Peters, (January 2016). "A publisher's view on research integrity". OASPA.
  6. ↑ Guarino, Ben (5 May 2016). "Impostor poses as expert scientist to mysteriously peer-review work for scientific journal" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  7. ↑ NutraIngredients.com. "Why fish oil fails: Omega-3 review retracted after suspicions raised about author".
  8. ↑ "Hindawi Publishing Corporation". 11 June 2004. Archived from the original on 11 June 2004.
  9. ↑ "Hindawi Publishing Corporation:The Open Access Contributor Pays Model" (PDF). JISC. August 2015.
  10. ↑ Peters, Paul (1 July 2007). "Going all the way: how Hindawi became an open access publisher". Learned Publishing. 20 (3): 191–195. doi:10.1087/095315107X204049 – via Wiley Online Library.
  11. ↑ "Feature: Hindawi Publishing: A Working OA Model". www.infotoday.com.
  12. ↑ "Announcing Paul Peters as President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - OASPA". 14 March 2013.
  13. ↑ "Paul Peters becomes OASPA president - Research Information". www.researchinformation.info.
  14. ↑ "Paul Peters". Hindawi.
  15. ↑ "Why Hindawi Left the STM Association and What It All Means for the Industry - The Scholarly Kitchen". 13 February 2017.
  16. ↑ Butler, Declan (28 March 2013). "Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing". Nature. 495 (7442): 433–435. doi:10.1038/495433a.
  17. ↑ "Open Science Policy Platform - Open Science - Research & Innovation - European Commission". ec.europa.eu.
  18. ↑ Hendricks, Ginny. "Board & governance - Crossref". www.crossref.org.
  19. ↑ "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship". paywallthemovie.com.
  20. ↑ Peters, Paul. "LinkedIn Profile". LinkedIn. LinkedIn. Retrieved 2 December 2017.


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