Thank you. Let's be the future.

I like to thank everyone who replied, comments, recognized themselves in, etc in my message about the state of publishing. I did not expect so, but my story is not unique. Worse, it is really important. The common five years will see a huge change in how we communicate literature. My expectations:

1. journal publisher ecosystem will shake up
2. data and software citations will become the norm
3. "available upon request" for anything backing an article will no longer be ethically accepted in the "version of record"
4. everything will become a record of version, instead of a version of record (ie. under version control)
5. peer review will be about discussing science again (instead of discussing typesetting issues)
6. you will enjoy publishing again

Change is not just coming, it is already among us. But what are currently still are niches will become the norm in the next five years. Let's get everyone involved and stop the hyping and start doing science again. I welcome Springer Nature to be part of this, but if they want that, they have to act like that. Currently they are not.

Want to help get the message home? Share my story. Share the stories of others that want better science. Here's my tweet, 2,500 impressions short of 100k:

some personal news: Conflict of Interest. Or why I am stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics. @jcheminf https://t.co/xxzlNqLUXr pic.twitter.com/E3ceOsHCrR

— Egon Willighⓐgen (@egonwillighagen) June 11, 2021

My story, full letter, but not actually all the things I did not like seeing, but a selection of them, can be found on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/4926031.