The diversification of scientific communication: new genders and new models in the context of the Digital Humanities Cordón-Garcia, José A. University of Salamanca E-Lectra Group of Investigation 34-923294580 jcordon@usal.es Muñoz-Rico, María University of Salamanca E-Lectra Group of Investigation 34-923294580 ricom@usal.es García-Rodriguez, Araceli University of Salamanca E-Lectra Group of Investigation 34-923294580 araceli@usal.es Gómez-Díaz, Raquel University of Salamanca E-Lectra Group of Investigation 34-923294580 rgomez@usal.es ABSTRACT Scientific communication undergoes changes of growth and model in virtue of phenomena related to the new modes of production and dissemination of documents, which affect their forms of visibility and impact. The nature of the research, affected more and more by the pressure to publish, and by the acceleration of publication times, is increasingly affected by the appearance of phenomena such as those of the predatory Publisher, and the tensions between the large publishing corporations and open access platforms. CCS Concepts • Metrics • Evaluation • Accreditation • Keywords Academic book; Scientific Monographs; Evaluation; Bibliometric Indicators. 1. INTRODUCTION The development of information and communication technologies in the last two decades has only reinforced this function, as not only do the number of available documents continue to increase, but also the formats and genres through which are presented. These years have witnessed a series of changes in the field of scientific communication: 1. Migration from analogue to digital media (mainly in the field of reference works and scientific journals). 2. Appearance of new discursive genres: personal web pages, wikis, blog, discussion forums, etc. that tend to break with the monopoly of canonical discourse and historically legitimized 3. Appearance of new systems of validation and evaluation of science as an alternative to conventional media through citations. The almetry is configured as an increasingly influential current between the scientific circuits consolidated 4. Rupture with what Chartier would call "the order of properties", through the Open Access movement, which opens unpublished channels for scientific production and communication increasingly subject to the hermeneutics of copyright, embarked on the struggle between the legitimacy of the creation and the legality of the distribution, substantiated in the development of licenses such as Copyleft or the Creative Commons. As Exposito [1] points out, the income streams of publishers have radically changed, producing a transformation whose dividing line is digital migration and the new broadcast production environment that articulates it. The great growth of the scientific- technical edition in recent years has come, on the one hand, from the hand of globalization, from the point of view of visibility and distribution, and on the other hand the insertion of publications in integrated contexts that allow their massive distribution. The strategy of the big publishers to commercialize large groups of their catalogs, together with other publishers, in multi-resource insertion platforms has led to interesting renewal movements that affect the entire value chain of the specialized edition ([2] This is not an obstacle to be able to contact a certain depletion of the growth capacity of a system in which the tensions between the producers of information and the managers and distributors of this has not yet reached a point of equilibrium. An example of this are the disputes between large publishing conglomerates such as Elsevier, and countries and research associations that postulate open access systems for the contributions of their researchers. To this must be added the inherent problems of budgets of purchase down or frozen, the emergence of free download platforms that constitute a demolition competition for the consolidated industry. Currently five companies publish half of all the research that is done in the world: Reed Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley-Blackwell and the American Chemical Society. To access their magazine packages, libraries disburse fortunes. Those who do not belong to the university system are required to pay 20, 30 and sometimes up to 50 dollars for the reading of a single article, in such a way that the good fortune of sites such as Sci Hub and the commitment of the large publishing conglomerates to suppress it. 2. Sci Hub and the Predatory Publishers The case of Sci-Hub constitutes one of the evidences of the existing tensions between the processes of access and distribution of scientific articles among the academic community. Founded in 2011 with a restricted nature, to be able to consult the necessary