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[From Google's English] " ... The use of bibliometric indicators of consumption of the scientific press is older and has its peak from 1960 to the periodic publication called Impact Factor (IF) by the monopolistic Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Philadelphia, USA; an index designed originally for use only by librarians in their acquisitions, but rotten to the full for use in the evaluation of researchers, academia, research policies, etc. The term impact, moreover, is all the rage, particularly among professional evaluators and most ignorant of bibliometrics. It should also be noted that OA should not be confused with Free Access (FA). The latter concept is synonymous with total free for authors and readers, while the OA, as stated above, has an associated cost and their prices tend to vary in relation to the IF of the journal (generally high, between 1500 and 5000 $ US ). Surprisingly, the most fanatical defenders of OA actually refer to FA (OA-FA), which will always be a utopia. It must not be overlooked changing internet publishing paradigm is beginning to create professional scientific press and whose most striking consequences are at least three, for now: Let l be a production unit article rather than volume, issue number and pages of a magazine; To be instituting model pay to publish , supplementary or replacement of pay to read , which differentiate us radically the business model of daily news media, and That data traffic on the Internet will grow impressively in the coming years; is estimated to spend 0.8 zetabytes (ZB) in 2009 to over 35 ZB 2020 (1 ZB = 1021 bytes), with all the difficulties of storage, access and preservation of content partners ..."