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<p>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)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In order to achieve this, we need to ban tradionnal journal and traditionnal papers, as well as impact factors. This will save billions fo $ / € that can be invested in helping humanity and people and improve science.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Nicolas</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Nicolas Pettiaux, phd - <a href="mailto:nicolas@pettiaux.be">nicolas@pettiaux.be</a><br /> <a href="mailto:Open@work">Open@work</a> - Une Société libre utilise des outils libres</div>
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