Edição de livros digitais e uso da plataforma SciELO por editoras universitárias brasileiras

Abstract

This work investigates the edition of digital and electronic books by Brazilian university presses, more exactly their publications in the SciELO Books. It seeks to reflect on the role of university presses in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge and the development of the new digital technologies, when print and digital book starts to live together, and how it takes place from the performance in this platform. It also seeks to discuss the technical question of e-book as part of the culture, from the historicity from a perspective of the history of the book and the universities to more current issues involving the publishing market and insertion in a broader context of disputes of conceptions and worldviews. The main objective, therefore, was to verify the hypothesis that SciELO Books, especially through open access, contributes to increase the public of part of the knowledge produced in the universities and to disseminate the own digital book by university presses. The analysis was based on data collected directly from the publishers or worksheets provided by the SciELO, especially comparing open access with for sale models, PDF and ePub formats, analyzing downloads of titles and performance in the partner stores and comparing these elements with theoretical reflection