Type or byte? Publishing opportunities toward digital and open access models

book “How to face the scientific communication today. Interna- tional challenge and digital technology impact on research outputs dissemination”, a volume of DOTTA series edited by Firenze University Press – FUP, is a collection of critical essays developed and discussed inside the OS- DOTTA network. The book is the final work of a systematic collection and synthesis of ideas and feedbacks, that the authors have worked on since the 11th Seminar of the network OSDOTTA “Publishing strategies and scientific investigations: how to face them today?”, took place in November 2015 at the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara. Consequently, the present volume goes deep inside the issue of communication of research results and its instruments, in particular, focusing on the issues of publications and evaluation of the final products. The book gathers contributions of national and international PhD candidates, PhDs and Professors, in three different sections of the volume. The aim is to investigate the topics of communication and dissemination of research activities and results into appropriate and high-quality products evaluable by the scientific community of reference. The author chapter is dedicated to focus and understand Academic’s Publishing today trends. Academic publications are typically either book or periodical journals that have specialized in scholarly subjects. Following printing press invention by Gutenberg scholarly publishing idea was born from intellectual circles and Academic Institutions and these become later the main scientific publication promoters. Early Printing press aim was to preserve during time classic authors legacy from destruction by copying manuscript but in practice it has represented a revolution for communicating the latest hypotheses and research results to the Academic Community and supplemented what a scholar could do personally. The printing press allowed the strengthening in efficiency and effectiveness of communication circulation within scientific communities and research quality marker as well.