<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><span>I am sure Elsevier, Wiley, Springer and the like are having great fun seeing membres of the Open Access community rip each other apart: </span><br><span>1) those who have always tried to promote a healthy and moral alternative to what has become of the scholarly publication process in the 4 or 5 last decades;</span><br><span>2) those who are suspecting group (1) of trying to operate strange and secret maneuvers in ordre to take who-knows-which powers and to rule the world of research communication... </span><br><span>Not just funny. Sad. </span><br><span></span><br><span>As a member of group (1), I must admit that I don't see what kind of personal benefit I, or any of us could seek by defending the cause of OA. To me, there is on l'y one giant potentially collective benefit : a more efficient, more fluid transmission of knowledge, free of charge and accessible for all and everywhere on the planet. </span><br><span></span><br><span>Jumping at each others' throats is taking both our attention and energy away from the real combat, which must be focused on the mechanisms installed [indeed - with the agreement of many of our colleagues (I wouldn't say complicity, it is a false interpretation)] and organised in such a way that they generate enormous and nowadays disproportionate amounts of money at the expense of research funds.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Please, let's come back to our senses and let's unite. </span><br><span></span><br><span>If we want to convince researchers, reviewers, finders, academic leaders and staff, etc. to develop new paradigms of knowledge transmission, sharing and interaction, let's work at it !</span><br><span></span><br><span>And please, let's gather and make public as many facts as possible. A an example, see data and graph on my blog :</span></div><div><a href="https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/denouncing-the-imposter-factor/">https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/denouncing-the-imposter-factor/</a></div><div>Data like these are needed to give corpus to our arguments.</div><div><span></span><br><span>On this, I wish you all an excellent 2016, which can only be better than 2015...</span><br><span></span></div><div></div></body></html>