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What Is the Future of Science and Science Communication?
There were two schools that were developing. There was the minority school but very strongly argued school of let's self archive what we produce and then people will do with what they want without. On the other hand there were a number of people including myself who kept on saying wait a minute there is a little bit more to this than just self-archiving. So you could see the beginning of a discussion which in effect was resting on the fact that some more complex process had to be envisioned. The open access movement somehow got kidnapped by whom and by what? By the librarians. They saw in open access the ultimate tool to keep the publishers under control. If we do a lot of open