Today,
Richard Poynder in his Blog '
Open and Shut' published
Open Access: Profile of Eberhard Hilf.
Richard Poynder is the prominent science journalist in the Anglo-Saxon language world writing on Open Access issues in scientific publishing.
This Profile given here is an extract of a longer interview with me. Poynder gives his personal view from outside on the German Open Access scene driven by a set of contacts with OA players in Germany and abroad.
Other profiles and interviews by him with experts in the Open Access scene include (see his collection
The Open Access Interviews):
Subbiah Arunachalam, leading Indian OA advocate and distinguished fellow of the Chennai-based M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) [Part 1 and Part 2]
Hélène Bosc, convenor for the EuroScience Working Group on Science Publishing (March 2009)
Carlos Brebbia, director of WIT Press (February 2008)
Bob Campbell; Change Is Very Exciting: Interview with Blackwell Publishing President, Bob Campbell (Information Today, September 2003)
Catherine Candee, director of publishing and strategic initiatives in the Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of California (UC)
Leslie Chan, Associate Director, Bioline International (June 2008)
Derk Haank, Put Up or Shut Up: Interview with Springer CEO Derk Haank (Information Today, November 2004)
Melissa Hagemann, Program Manager of the Open Access Project at George Soros' Open Society Institute
Stevan Harnad, OA advocate and archivangelist (July 2007 and Financial Times, July 2001)
Tony Hey, corporate vice president for technical computing at Microsoft
Tom Hill, Publisher Libertas Academica (January 2009. and Nov.2008)
Annette Holtkamp, Information Professional, DESY (September 2008)
Matthew Honan, Editorial Director, Bentham Science Publishers (April 2008)
Mark McCabe, assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Information Today, December 2002)
Bill Mortimer, Research Support Librarian, Open University (April 2008)
Peter Murray-Rust, advocate for Open Access & Open Data (January 2008)
Richard Roberts, chief scientific officer at New England Biolabs, Nobel laureate, and Fellow of the Royal Society
Josiah Ober, professor of classics at Princeton University
Peter Suber, de facto leader of the Open Access Movement (October 2007)
Chris Surridge, managing editor of PLoS ONE
Alma Swan, OA advocate and co-founder and director of UK-based scholarly publishing consultancy Key Perspectives (part 1 and part 2; and January 2008)
Vitek Tracz, founder of open access publisher BioMed Central
Harold Varmus, Nobel Laureate and co-founder of open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS ONE)
Leo Waaijers, Manager of SURFshare in the Netherlands (April 2007)
John Wilbanks, VP Science Commons (February 2008)
His contributions and interviews taken together give a profound information on Open Access and its development worldwide.
Eberhard R. Hilf
