Paul Peters (publisher)

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Paul Peters

Paul Harvey Peters (born September 24, 1982) [1] is the non-Executive Board Chair of online conference software provider ExOrdo and from 2015 to 2021 was the chief executive Officer of the Open Access publisher Hindawi. He is past Chair of the Board of Crossref and was President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) from 2013 to 2019. 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]

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Early life

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 nine 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 member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers. He appeared in the 2018 feature length documentary about open access, Paywall: the business of scholarship. [19]

In 2018, Paul Peters proposed the concept of the OA Switchboard [20] and convened a meeting of key stakeholders in December 2018 to develop the idea. The OA Switchboard was formally launched on 31 January 2020. [21]

In February 2021, having successfully completed the sale of Hindawi to Wiley for $298m [22] he announced his intention to leave his role as CEO to focus full time on his family [23] In May 2022 Peters was appointed as non-Executive Board Chair of ExOrdo a provider of cloud-based conferencing software [24]

Personal life

Peters has lived in London since 2013. He is an amateur skydiver and a vegan. On 20 July 2019 he married Maria Burnuz in London. [25] In January 2021 their son was born. In 2022 he moved to Como, Italy.

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 (née Peters) who is an attorney.

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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". Proceedings of the Iatul Conferences.
  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 (14 November 2014). "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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  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 .
  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. 2018-08-05.
  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. Bibcode:2013Natur.495..433B. doi: 10.1038/495433a . PMID   23538810.
  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. ↑ "The OA Switchboard Initiative". OA Switchboard. 2020-05-06.
  21. ↑ "OA Switchboard initiative: progress report January 2020". OASPA. 2020-06-05.
  22. ↑ "A new era for Hindawi and open research". Hindawi. 2021-01-11.
  23. ↑ "Taking the next turn". Hindawi. 2021-02-10.
  24. ↑ "Paul Peters Appointed Board Chair of Ex Ordo". ExOrdo. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  25. ↑ Peters, Paul. "LinkedIn Profile". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
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