Abstract

What should be the role of « open » publishing at a time when publishing standards are becoming more rigid and weighing more and more heavily on the way research institutions, research teams and researchers themselves are ranked and assessed? Under what conditions can open publishing improve dissemination of the most interesting or original research results? Does it foster exchanges and cooperation or, paradoxically, does it contribute to a spirit of all-out competitiveness? This is one of the issues that research, especially in the human and social sciences, is faced with today