Peter Suber to Direct Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication
“The Harvard Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Suber as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC), starting July 1, 2013. Suber will continue his current activities as director of the Harvard Open Access Project, based at the Berkman Center, as well as his affiliations as a Berkman faculty fellow, senior researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and research professor of Philosophy at Earlham College.
Suber’s new role with the OSC closely aligns with his work leading the Harvard Open Access Project. Both are driven by a common vision for opening access to cutting-edge research for everyone who can make use of it. Integrating the two roles into one position will allow the projects to better share strategies, staff, resources and knowledge, and accelerate the progress of open access both within and beyond Harvard.
“This new phase of collaboration represents a wonderful recognition, extension, and synchronization of the efforts of the Berkman Center and the Harvard Library. It promises continued progress inside Harvard as well as leadership and collaboration outside its increasingly permeable walls,” said Urs Gasser, Berkman’s executive director…”
GalleyCat reports that Lydia Davis has won the fifth Man Booker International Prize, chosen from among nine finalists. The announcement was made at Victoria and Albert Museum in London… Here’s more from the official release:
“The Prize, worth £60,000, is awarded for an achievement in fiction on the world stage and Davis’s achievements are writ large despite often using startlingly few words (some of her longer stories only stretch to two or three pages). Her work has the brevity and precision of poetry…”
PublisherLunch reports a number of developments including “Pearson’s new ceo John Fallon has created a new organizational and leadership team under him, “designed to accelerate Pearson’s push into digital learning, education services and emerging markets” — and reflecting the coming disposition of Penguin into the joint venture with Berteslmann.
They also note personnel changes at Ballantine Bantam Dell, Weinstein Books, Simon & Schuster’s trade imprint and Simon Pulse.
Earlier this week Byron Shattuck, Director of Business Development for Emery-Pratt, was interviewed by Sue Polanka. Sue “was able to have a quick interview with him to discuss the ebook offerings available from Emery-Pratt and discuss the implications of a used ebook market and the most popular business models in our industry. Byron’s interview can be found on the NSR interviews page, along with 50+ others from librarians, publishers, and information industry professionals…”
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