[GOAL] Re: Inside Higher Ed: All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua resign over Elsevier

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

Knowledge and culture are to be shared by nature. Any impediment to the
dissemination of knowledge to all must be fought by all means. If a
price must be paid for the development of knowledge it must be
reasonable and small, and contribute to the development of knowledge
itself, not to pay managers or basketball fields (eg. at Elsevier
location in London) 

Today, publishing knowledge does not costanything : if you want to make
something public, just create a web page anywere. The problem is
afterwards : it is to make sure the information is of quality and to
broadcast it. 

One good way, as use by Tim Gowers, is to encourage schloras to publish
on arxiv (that provide some stability) and then, after the publication,
as it take place today in hight energy physics, do some selection,
improvement of the content and validation. And call that the a
posteriori editing process that does not need any "traditional
publisher". We do not need traditional publishers anymore. As said by
Mike Taylor, they are just a waste of money. 

In order to achieve this, we need to ban tradionnal journal and
traditionnal papers, as well as impact factors. This will save billions
fo $ / EUR that can be invested in helping humanity and people and
improve science. 

Regards, 

Nicolas 

Nicolas Pettiaux, phd - nicolas at pettiaux.be
 Open at work - Une Société libre utilise des outils libres 
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