Open archives (the "green road") represent the most efficient way of providing full open access through authors’ self-deposits. In this article, Thierry Chanier takes a short tour around the scientific publication world. According to him, though free / open access to research findings have been officially acknowledged, the traditional organisation of scholarly publication runs against the objective of allowing the entire annual set of 2.5 million papers to be freely accessed. Thierry Chanier is professor at the Université de Franche-Comté, France.
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