Interviews and Profiles
This list is part of the Open Access Directory.
- This is a section within the larger Bibliography of open access.
- This is a list of articles about people relevant to the open access movement: interviews, profiles, and the occasional personal memoir.
- "Interviews and Profiles" was not part of the original bibliography and was added in November 2008.
- Put the names of the blogs in italics, treating them as "online newspapers" in more conventional references.
- Alphabetical, by interviewee name.
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Arunachalam, Subbiah. "Why India needs Open Access. By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 5 May 2006. The first part http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-india-needs-open-access.html and the second part http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/05/open-access-science-in-which-no-one-is.html
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Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "Introducing Charles W. Bailey Jr.". By Marcus. OA Librarian. 30 November, 2005. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/11/introducing-charles-w-bailey-jr.html
Baker, Gavin. "LJ Academic Newswire: OA Student Activist Gavin Baker". The LJ Academic Newswire, 31 January, 2008. http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/CA6527611.html?nid=2673#news3
———. "SPARC Innovators: AGENTS OF CHANGE - Student Activists for open access". SPARC, December 2007. http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/students.shtml
Bergstrom, Carl and Bergstrom Ted. "SPARC recognizes Carl and Ted Bergstrom as SPARC innovators". SPARC Press Release, 5 June 2007. http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/07-0605.shtml
Bosc, Hélène. "Hélène Bosc". OA Librarian, 10 January 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/01/hlne-bosc.html
——— "The Open Access Interviews: Hélène Bosc". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 27 March 2009. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/03/open-access-interviews-helene-bosc.html
Bourne, Philip. "The Bourne Commendation: Open Access Evangelist Wins 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award". By Kevin Davies. Bio-IT World, 6 April 2009. http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/04/06/09/philip-bourne-benjamin-franklin-award-2009.html
Brebbia, Carlos. "The Open Access Interviews: Professor Carlos Brebbia". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 5 February 2008. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/02/open-access-interviews-professor-carlos.html
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Candee, Catherine. "Changing the paradigm". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 18 January, 2006. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/01/changing-paradigm.html
CERN Library Team. "CERN Library Team: an OA Inspiration!". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 9 April, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/04/cern-library-team-oa-inspiration.html
Chan Leslie. "The Open Access Interviews: Leslie Chan". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 20 June, 2008. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-access-interviews-leslie-chan.html
Chuang, Liu. 2008 CODATA Prize Recipient. http://www.codata.org/archives/2008/prize2008.html
Cockerill, Matthew. "In the eye of the Open Access storm". By Jane Dudman. Information World Review, 8 May, 2007. http://www.computing.co.uk/information-world-review/features/2189448/eye-oa-storm
Coleman, Anita. "Anita Coleman". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 27 November, 2005. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/11/anita-coleman.html
Coll, Subirats Imma. "Imma Subirats Coll". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 17 December, 2005. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/imma-subirats-coll.html
Crawford, Walt. "Introducing Walt Crawford's 'Cites and Insights'". By Lesley Perkins. OA Librarian, 15 November, 2005. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/11/introducing-walt-crawfords-cites.html
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Darries, Fatima. "Fatima Darries: Award-Winning South African OA Librarian". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 9 October, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/10/fatima-darries-award-winning-south.html
DeRisi, Joseph. "Joseph DeRisi Battles Malaria with Innovation and Openness". By Art Chimes. Voice of America, 22 September, 2008. http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2008-09/2008-09-22-voa46.cfm?CFID=76857593&CFTOKEN=96526588
de Robbio, Antonella. "Antonella de Robbio". By Heather, Morrison. OA Librarian, 19 November, 2005. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/11/antonella-de-robbio.html
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English, Ray. "Ray English, or The Open Access Genie". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 27 November, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/11/ray-english-or-open-access-genie.html
———."Ray English Interview on Academic Commons". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 13 December, 2005. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/ray-english-interview-on-academic.html
———."Ray English Named ACRL Academic / Research Librarian of the Year (2006)". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 14 February, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/ray-english-named-acrl-academic.html
———. "Ray English wins 2009 Hugh C. Atkinson Award". American Library Association. February 12, 2009. http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/february2009/acrlatkinson.cfm
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Gbaje, Shiloba Ezra. "Librarian Ezra Shiloba Gbaje wins award for open access work". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 28 September 2007. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/09/librarian-ezra-shiloba-gbaje-wins-award.html
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Hagemann, Melissa. "Interview with Melissa Hagemann of the Open Society Institute". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 10 June, 2005. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005/06/interview-with-melissa-hagemann-of.html
———. "SPARC Recognizes Open Society Institute's Melissa Hagemann as Newest SPARC Innovator". SPARC Press Release, 5 December, 2006. http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/06-1205.shtml
Hall, Wendy. "New Years Honours: Dame Wendy Hall". Joyce Lewis. University of Southhampton School of Electronics and Computer Science News. Dec. 31, 2008. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/2236 See also Open Access News for links to other posts on Hall's work http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/12/honor-for-wendy-hall.html
Harnad, Stevan. "Ein Guru auf dem 'Grünen Weg'". By Udo Seiwert-Fauti. Duz Magazin, 5 April, 2005. http://www.duz.de/docs/magazin.html
———. "The OA Interviews: Stevan Harnad". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 1 July, 2007. The first part http://poynder.blogspot.com/2007/07/oa-interviews-stevan-harnad.html and the second part http://www.richardpoynder.co.uk/A%20mission%20to%20free%20scientific%20ideas.htm
"Harvard Arts and Sciences Faculty recognized as SPARC Innovators". SPARC Press Release, 26 June, 2008. http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0626.shtml
Hey, Tony. "A Conversation with Microsoft's Tony Hey". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 12 December, 2006. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/12/conversation-with-microsofts-tony-hey.html
Hill, Tim. "The Open Access Interviews: Dove Medical Press". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 5 November, 2008. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/11/open-access-interviews-dove-medical.html
Holtkamp, Annette. "The Open Access Interviews: Annette Holtkamp". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 12 September, 2008. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-access-interviews-annette-holtkamp.html
Honan, Matthew. "The Open Access Interviews: Matthew Honan". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 23 April, 2008. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-access-interviews-matthew-honan.html
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Johnson, Rick. "Poised for change: Rick Johnson". By Heather, Morrison. OA Librarian, 1 November, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/11/poised-for-change-rick-johnson.html
Joseph, Heather. "The LJ Academic Newswire Newsmaker Interview: SPARC Executive Director Heather Joseph on the NIH Public Access Policy". The LJ Academic Newswire, January 8, 2008. http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/CA6518133.html?nid=2673#news2
——— Heather Joseph: Q & A. by Elie Dolgin. The Scientist. February 12, 2009. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/02/heather-joseph-on-conyers-bill.html
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Kleinschnitz, Christoph. "Junior Scientist of the Year award goes to founder of an open-access (OA) journal". Informationsplattform Open Access, November 28, 2008. http://open-access.net/de_en/communication/news/news/anzeige/nachwuchspreis_fuer_gruendu/?no_cache=1. OA News excerpt http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/11/founder-of-oa-medical-journal-honored.html
Krichel, Thomas: "Thomas Krichel: a man with ideas, and drive!". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 13 February, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/thomas-krichel-man-with-ideas-and.html
Kupryte, Rima. "IFLA award for OA Librarian pioneer". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 15 August, 2008. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/08/ifla-award-for-oa-librarian-pioneer.html
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Lipman, David. "Creator of PUBMED Central, Biomedical research database recognized for outstanding citizen service". By Jennifer McLennan. The Alliance for Taxpayers Access, 23 June, 2008. http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/08-0623.html
——— "Federal Player of the Week". The Washington Post. February 9, 2009. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020502126.html
Luce, Rick. "Rick Luce honoured for Open Access work". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 7 December, 2005. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/rick-luce-honoured-for-open-access.html
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McCabe, Mark. "A True Market Failure". By Richard Poynder. Information Today 19, no. 2 (2002). http://www.infotoday.com/it/dec02/poynder.htm
Morris, Sally. "John Murphy profiles Sally Morris, chief executive of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers". By John Murphy. Research Information, February, 2004. http://www.researchinformation.info/rijanfeb04sally_morris.html
Morrison, Heather. "Heather Morrison: Speaker Biography (Open Access and Scholarly Communications)". By Heather Morrison. The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 31 October, 2008. http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/10/heather-morrison-speaker-biography-open.html
———"Why I am an open access advocate". By Heather Morrison. http://solr.bccampus.ca/bcc/items/6d02ce0c-9294-bd4d-ca64-b4f58f5d0ea4/1/?backto=close
Mortimer, Bill. "The Open Access Interviews: Bill Mortimer". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 4 April, 2008. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-access-interviews-bill-mortimer.html
Murray-Rust, Peter. "The Open Access Interviews: Peter Murray-Rust". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 21 January, 2008. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/01/open-access-interviews-peter-murray.html
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Norris, Michael. "Doctoral thesis highly commended". News from DIS (Department of Information Science at Lougborough University., 9 January, 2009.
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Ober, Josiah. "OA as instrumental good". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 22 December, 2005. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005/12/oa-as-instrumental-good.html
Okerson, Ann. "Ann Okerson: An Unauthorized Tribute". By Heather, Morrison. OA Librarian, 20 March, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/03/ann-okerson-unauthorized-tribute.html
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Pandita, Naina. "Naina Pandita and Open Access in India". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 19 July, 2007. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/07/naina-pandita-and-open-access-in-india.html
Pyati, Ajit. "Ajit Pyati, open source and open access in libraries". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 7 October, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/10/ajit-pyati-open-source-and-open-access.html
Porter, George. "George Porter, and the OA Slam Dunk". OA Librarian, 15 January, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/01/george-porter-and-oa-slam-dunk.html
Rabow, Ingegerd. "Ingegerd Rabow: OA Librarian receives honorary doctorate!". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 27 January, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/01/ingegerd-rabow-oa-librarian-receives.html
Roberts, Richard. "A real tragedy". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 16 December, 2005. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005/12/real-tragedy.html
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Russell, Ian. "Championing the case of smaller publishers: Ian Russell, the new CEO of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)". By John Murphy. Research Information, October, 2005. http://www.researchinformation.info/rioctnov06profile.html
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Suber, Peter. "Copyright Law and Free Online Scholarship: An Interview with Peter Suber". By Sam Vaknin. United Press International, February 19, 2002. http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb26.html
———. "The Free Online Scholarship Movement: An Interview with Peter Suber". By James L. Morrison. The Technology Source, September/October, 2002. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/morrison.htm
———. "Newsmaker Interview: Peter Suber, Publisher of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter". By Andrew Albanese. Library Journal Academic Newswire, July 24, 2003. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/48.html
———. "A conversation with Peter Suber about open access". By John Udel. Infoworld, 18 August, 2006. http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/08/18.html
———. "Interview with Peter Suber". By Steve Shaddock. NeoAmericanist, Spring/Summer 2006. http://www.neoamericanist.org/archive-spring06/suber.pdf
———."Special Award: Non-Librarian Working for Our Cause". Readers Choice Award from the Charleston Advisor. October 2006. No longer online, but see Heather Morrison, OA Librarian, 15 November, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/11/special-award-non-librarian-working.html
———. "Peter Suber: Heart of the Open Access Movement". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 11 December, 2006. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/12/peter-suber-heart-of-open-access.html
———. "The Basement Interviews: Peter Suber". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 19 October, 2007. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2007/10/basement-interviews-peter-suber.html
———. "Radio interview on OA". By Sundar Raman. Open Views, on radio KRUU FM, 12 November, 2007. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/11/radio-interview-on-oa.html
———. "Perspective on Open-Access Publishing: An Interview with Peter Suber". By Reid Cornwell. Innovate, April/May, 2008. http://www.innovateonline.info/?view=article&id=564&action=synopsis
———. "Interview with Peter Suber on Open Access". By Elyssa Kroski. Internet Archive, October 13, 2008. http://www.archive.org/details/PeterSuberInterview
———. "Peter Suber Talks with Talis about Open Access". By Paul Miller. Talis, 24 November, 2008. http://blogs.talis.com/xiphos/2008/11/24/peter-suber-talks-with-talis-about-open-access/
Surridge, Chris. "Open Access: Stage Two". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 15 June, 2006. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/06/open-access-stage-two.html
Swan, Alma. "The Open Access Interviews: Dr Alma Swan". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 10 January, 2008. The first part http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/01/open-access-interviews-dr-alma-swan.html and the second part http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005/04/to-benefit-of-scholarship-interview.html and http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005/04/roller-coaster-ride.html
Szczepanski, Jan. "Jan Szczepanski: collecting for the world". By Heather Morrison. OA Librarian, 10 December, 2005. http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/jan-szczepanski-collecting-for-world.html
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Till, Jim. " Jim Till: Be Openly Accessible - or Be Obscure". By Heather Morrison. The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 4 September, 2007. http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2007/09/jim-till-be-openly-accessible-or-be.html
Tracz, Vitek. "Interview with Vitek Tracz". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 23 May, 2006. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/05/interview-with-vitek-tracz.html
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Van de Sompel, Herbert. "SPARC Innovator: Herbert Van de Sompel (2006)". SPARC, April, 2006. http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/vandesompel.shtml
Van der Kuil, Annemiek. "In the Spotlight: Annemiek van der Kuil, SURF community manager". Igitur Newsletter, Issue 4, December 2008. http://www.igitur.nl/news/issue4_2008/In%20the%20Spotlight_RED.html
Varmus, Harold. "Werdet Teil der Revolution!". By Christoph Droesser. Die Zeit, 18 June, 2003. http://www.zeit.de/2003/26/N-Interview-Varmus
———. "Bibliothek auf Knopfdruck". By Hartmut Wewetzer. Der Tagesspiegel. 26 May, 2006. http://www.tagesspiegel.de/magazin/wissen/gesundheit/;art300,2222493
———. "Free Radical". By Jamie Shreeve, Wired, 1 June, 2006. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/varmus.html
———."Interview with Harold Varmus". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 5 June, 2006. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/06/interview-with-harold-varmus.html
———. "Making science free to all". By Bernadine Healy. US News and World Report, 12 November, 2007. http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/best-leaders/2007/11/12/harold-varmus.html
———. "Harold Varmus on Public Access to NIH Research (2008)". Science Friday, 11 April, 2008. http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200804114
———. " Dr Varmus, I presume?". By David Worlock. Outsell, Thinking Out Loud, 15 October, 2008. http://thinking.outsellinc.com/2008/10/dr-varmus-i-presume/
———. "The 10 Most Influential People in Science". (Includes Harold Varmus). By Susan Kruglinski and Marion Long. Discover Magazine, 26 November, 2008. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/26-the-10-most-influential-people-in-science/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C=
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Waaijers, Leo. "Leo Waaijers Receives SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2008". SPARC, 2008. http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0422waaijers.shtml
———. "The OA Interviews: Leo Waaijers". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 4 April, 2007. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2007/04/oa-interviews-leo-waaijers.html
Wilbanks, John. "The Open Access Interviews: John Wilbanks". By Richard Poynder. Open and Shut?, 22 February, 2008. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/02/open-access-interviews-john-wilbanks.html
Willinsky, John. "John Willinsky and the Public Knowledge Project". By Heather Morrison. The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 11 December, 2006. http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2006/12/john-willinsky-and-public-knowledge.html