The future of open access books: An update on ‘Parcours numériques’

M. Sinatra, M. Vitali-Rosati

Parcours numériques: an open access series

  • 2014-2016: 5 books (and 2 coming soon)
  • A new model
    • 2 editions
    • Printed (linear, short, without critical apparatus)
    • Online enhanced (non-linear, long, critical apparatus, open)
  • A new dissemination model
  • A new economic model?
    • The free version is a sort of advertising
    • The costs of the enhanced version

New challenges

  • Ergonomic
    • Annotation
    • Personnalisation of reading experience
    • Improving the graphics
  • Content structure
    • xml?
    • migrating the platform