The document discusses several recent developments related to open access and e-books: 1) The World Bank approved a new open access policy for its research outputs allowing public distribution and reuse of its work. 2) A Pew Research Center report examined how the rise of e-books is affecting libraries and their patrons. Librarians believe e-books have been good for libraries and reading in general. 3) Brazil will allow prisoners to have sentences reduced by reading books and writing essays on them. The document then discusses how the book is being transformed from a simple digital copy to a new networked object, and how this impacts concepts like openness, libraries, readers and knowledge.

1. As an open book
A metaphorical approach to reading and
researching activities in network(ed) society.
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#e2book

2. Three projects, three good news
Paris Declaration on Open
Educational Resources
June 22, 2012
World Bank and Open Access July 1, 2012
PEW Internet Pew Research Center June, 22, 2012
A report on Libraries, patrons, and e-books

3. World Bank and Open Access
effective July 1, 2012
The World Bank approved recently a new Open Access policy
for its research outputs and knowledge products.
In support of the new policy the Bank is consolidating
thousands of books, articles, reports and research papers in a
search-engine friendly Open Knowledge Repository, and
allowing the public to distribute, reuse and build upon much
of its work

4. PEW Internet Pew Research Center
A report on Libraries, patrons, and e-books

5. PEW INTERNET
• Released: June 22, 2012
• Libraries, patrons, and e-books
• Part 1: An introduction to the issues surrounding libraries and e-books
• The emergence of digital content has disrupted industries and institutions
that have enjoyed relatively stable practices, policies, and businesses for
decades. News organizations, record companies, broadcast and movie
producers, and book publishers have all been dramatically affected by the
change.
• So have libraries. Interest in e-books took off in late 2006 with the release
of Sony Readers, and accelerated after Amazon’s Kindle was unveiled a
year later. And this public interest prompted many libraries to offer e-
books to borrow, and this patrons’ interest in e-books has only grown over
time.

6. Pew Internet
Imaging the future of libraries
• Patrons and librarians were fairly uncertain about the exact way
that libraries would function in the future. Overall, most librarians
from our online panel thought that the evolution of e-book reading
devices and digital content has been a good thing for libraries, and
all but a few thought that the evolution of e-book reading devices
and digital content has been a good thing for reading in general.
• Still, there was a strong sense in answers from librarians and users
that significant change was inevitable, even as readers’ romance
with printed books persists. Some patrons talked about libraries
with fewer printed books and more public meeting and learning
spaces. Some librarians struggled to see past a murky transition.
There was a combination of apprehension and excitement in their
answers without a clear consensus about the structure and shape
of the institution.

7. Another very good news for book
world
The Telegraph - 26 Jun 2012
Inmates in four federal prisons
holding some of Brazil's most
notorious criminals will be
able to read up to 12 works of
literature, philosophy, science
or classics to trim a maximum
48 days off their sentence
each year, the government
announced.
Prisoners will have up to four weeks to read each book and write an essay
which must "make correct use of paragraphs, be free of corrections, use
margins and legible joined-up writing," said the notice published on Monday
in the official gazette.
A special panel will decide which inmates are eligible to participate in the
program dubbed "Redemption through Reading".

8. The Triple Revolution
Lee Raine and Barry Wellman , Networked: The New
Social Operating System. MIT Press, 2012

9. Three revolutionary keys
 Internet
 Movil devices
 Social Networks

10. USER as a key
• SOCIAL AND TECHNICAL ENHANCEMENT
• A Technical enhancement offers new
capacities from the device that are real
affordances to social enhancement
• Social enhancements appears as new
capabilities that individuals are able to
expand and transforms the object (book) itself

11. LibraryThing
A Networked Library

12. https://booki.sh
ABOUT BOOKI.SH
Booki.sh is an immersive reading environment – like a
comfortable chair under a nice lamp – designed for the pure
joy of reading. Behind the scenes, Booki.sh is also a complete
web-based platform for distributing, selling and reading
ebooks that is simple to use on any device with a modern web
browser. https://booki.sh

13. http://www.overdrive.com/
How do I access the books?

14. The Book as Ecosystem of Scholarly
Dialogue
• http://goo.gl/DJQ3k
Christopher P. Long on June 25, 2012
If, however, the book is not to be a mere
abstract academic exercise, it will need to be
published in a way that performs and enables
the politics of collaborative reading for which it
argues.

15. Scientific blogging
• http://hypotheses.org/
• Hypotheses is a publication platform for academic blogs. It
enables researchers to provide real-time updates of
developpements in their own research. Academic blogs can
take numerous forms: accounts of archaeological
excavations, current collective research or fieldwork;
thematic research; books or periodicals reviews; newsletter
etc. Hypotheses offers academic blogs the enhanced
visibility of its humanities and social sciences platform. The
Hypotheses team provides support and assistance to
researchers for the technical and the editorial aspects of
their project.

16. Google Scholar Citations
• It allows for a researcher's profile to be
constructed with speed and simplicity, taking
advantage of the search engine's resources and
allowing the researcher to interact with the
system to finetune searches, improve
reliability, etc
• My profile as an example: already automatically
includes a recent publication of mine which
appeared in this month’s edition of Isegoría

18. E-book timeline
 20 years ago e-book was a simple translation from
analogical to digital support.
 Only a support change.
 It is more, much more.

19. INFORMATION
• Knowledge
• Pleasure
• Enterteinement
• Gift
• Other things related with the format such as
information is presented to human beings.

20. Openness is a Social property
• Openness is a resource to think about book
• All questions that openness shows in real
society are now reconceptualized
(open, clear, transparent, accessible.
• Not enclosure from the agricultural society
and medieval cities to modern ones, not walls.
• Beginning new ways, roads, (data highways
become opened and places to pass for
everybody).

21. Open access libraries
 The better method of conservation is the use.
 The most used book is the best conserved… New
bindings. User demands.
 NOW in a huge quantity of electronic data, the
use is very important .
 More use, more preservation (v.g. Most used
electronic archives are more changed to new
support, new versions, etc., etc.

22. From data highways to informational
society
• Informational society
• Network society
• Networked society
• Networked individualism
• Everything is changing
• Things/ Internet/Human being interwoven
• Book Internet/but now appears as a new kind
of object.

23. New habits to a new era
• Networked reader
• Networked researcher
• Networked library
• Networked librarians
• Networked patrons
• A NEW Set of affordances come with e2book

24. Seekings
 Seeking. Serendipity
 Silent Reader
 Learning of new abilities to expand the new
capabilities.
 LIBRARIAN APPEARS AS A NEW CURATOR OF
KNOWLEDGE. Reference, management, software
are embedded in the real object v.g.
CrossRef, DOI, identification of the electronic
objects that offers.
 New literacy, e-competences.

25. Erasmus: reading, learning and
researching
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books
hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those
who, by nightly as well as daily use, thumb them, batter
them, wear them out, who fill up all the margins with
annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a
fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
Letter to a friend (Steyn, 1489?), The Correspondence of Erasmus Letter 31, p. 58. University of
Toronto Press.
Do not be guilty of possession a library of learned books lacking
learning yourself .
Letter of Erasmus to Christian Northoff (1497)

26. USER as a key
• SOCIAL AND TECHNICAL ENHANCEMENT
• A Technical enhancement offers new
capacities from the device that are real
affordances to social enhancement
• Social enhancements appears as new
capabilities that individuals are able to
expand and transforms the object (book) itself

27. 3M Cloud Library

28. 3M DISCOVERY TERMINAL

29. iTunesU

30. What is open in an open e-book
• Knowledge as a public good
• A New Communication Order: Researching
Literacy Practices in the Network Society
• DOI:10.1080/09500780108666805 Ilana
Snyder
pages 117-131
• Available online: 29 Mar 2010

31. Open Educational Resources
• OER-University
• Drumbeat Festival
• Badgets and other tools
• New habits and new capabilities in network
society

32. Books, libraries, patrons
• A new approach to living library
• A borgesian library in an Orwellian landscape
Borgwell: From Borges to Orwell
• Dreams, nightmares and others

33. Surrounding changes in scholarly
communications

35. PeerJ Launching this Fall

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40. • Nathalie Casemajor Loustau (2012), “La
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• Ver revista nueva Participations 1 (1) 2011
• Articulo en linea en www.necplus.eu