The Harvard Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University have announced the appointment of SPARC senior researcher Peter Suber as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC). The OSC spearheads campus-wide initiatives to open, share, and preserve scholarship.
Suber's appointment is effective July 1, 2013. He will continue his current activities with SPARC as well as his roles as director of the Harvard Open Access Project, as a Berkman Center faculty fellow, and as research professor of philosophy at Earlham College.
Suber succeeds Stuart Shieber, the founding faculty director of the OSC. Shieber will continue as faculty director, though with a reduced role.
