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Statistics released on digital reading in Spain show a clear progression of this in recent years. Sales of electronic devices, both electronic ink as tablets, also follow a steady growth rate. Moreover, more and more initiatives from the publishing industry, both in collection development and in the business models exclusively digital. Given these variables, from the Research Group E-Lectra, University of Salamanca, we proceeded to analyze the phenomenon of digital reading through a survey conducted in May 2012. Launched via various social networks and specialized Facebook groups. The survey was answered by 489 individuals, so that the estimation error for the total sample, a 95.44% confidence, the result of the survey E-Lectra is very close to other studies such as the one developed by Pew Research Center. One of the most significant aspects of the survey is the user's relationship with the device and with the basic machine-readable. When asked users of e-reader or tablet if you read paper books still the response is overwhelming. 90% read the paper, and read on their devices. All factor analyzes conducted suggest two dimensions in the assessment that respondents made ​​when expressing why they like to read on their devices, and and generally the first dimension is characterized by items related to the usability offered by devices and the second on the physical aspects of comfort and mobility.

Unlike a printed book, a single copy of an e-book could potentially be read by many users simultaneously from anywhere. Thus, a major concern is that publishers ebook lending in libraries can adversely affect sales of books. To counter this, many publishers insist on terms that reproduce aspects of the loan of the printed book. Some of these terms may be necessary and tolerable, at least temporarily, to remove the fears perceived by publishers face to encourage the sale of e-books to libraries. Others question the demand from users who pose increasingly greater demand for e-books will be good for users and detrimental to the perception of the library as a service. In the document the current status of e-book discusses the library and the actions developed by libraries and professional associations in defense of the digital reader in libraries are described. Among these initiatives are highlighted as those carried out by EBLIDA, ALA, FirstReaders, E.voke and performed by some library consortia as Kansas, Colorado and Marmot.

The degree of Information and Documentation as trained professionals to work in a wide range of services related to the organization of information and documentation, both in government and public institutions, and private companies. The basic training program is oriented degree understanding of the nature of the information and documents, its various modes of production and management cycles, use and transfer, as well as to the management of the methods, techniques, tools and instruments appropriate to each context. The first Information and Documentation degrees were launched in 2008-2009 in universities Carlos III of Madrid, Salamanca and Zaragoza and background were the Diploma in Library and Information Science (eighties of the last century) and the Bachelor of Documentation (nineties, respectively). In order to check in perspective the process developed-at a time when students of the first graduating graduates have already left the classroom, this work has as main objective to study how addressed in plans titration study of the specific skills of the degree called "analysis and representation of information", "organization and storage of information" and "search and retrieval of information", as set out in the White Paper the Degree in Information. The analysis considers both the complexity of the legal and educational context in which took place the process of implementation of the studies as the short time available. It addresses three distinct axes: a) The programmatic texts that formed the basis for the development of curricula-Euroreferencial of the European Council of International Associations and White Paper ANECA-titration b) The skills associated with Selected materials c) The curricular modules and subjects these materials has experienced in each of the grades of Information and Documentation implanted in different Spanish universities.

The sources of information represent the clearest making "artifacts" specialized in efficiency and accuracy for the provision of a service instance. The configuration and development of the same sample as the editorial and documentary know have come together to build increasingly rigorous and powerful in providing information tools. When the print medium was predominant, insertion of typographic and spatial encoding the incomparably better endowed than any other means, loosely constructed extrapolated to other written instrument readability. The introduction of indexes, tables, materials, or mere alphabetical order in the case of dictionaries and encyclopedias, breaking the prevailing systematic ontologies, the became the reference instrument par excellence, creating a documentary system around them and some regulatory developments that permitieronla uniformity and exchange of information when it is was automated. Thanks to computerization were becoming more immediate, more open, more transparent and more collaborative. The development of OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative-Protocol Metadata Harvesting) and standards such as Dublin Core allowed greater interoperability between producers and users of sources. But the big jump occurs with changes in access, with the development of the Internet and especially Web 2.0. One of the most innovative and interesting in the use of sources of information elements are what we have called authoring tools, that is, all the resources that allow participation, customizing features, or intervention researcher at the joint, structure and management of the information source the purpose of this paper is the analysis of authoring tools in the major aggregators and trust editorials devoted to academic and general books in order to analyze the underlying performance in developing publishing resources . Innovations in the same transform them into sources of information with an inherent value to the policies of collaboration and Web 2.0 own participation.

The starting point of this study is the finding that innovation and educational research in Information and Documentation is a reality driven by the process of European convergence and the development of new technologies, as shown in the paper entitled Shaping the map of innovation in Information and Documentation, presented in September 2009 in the "Third Conference on Innovation in Teaching, Information Technology and Communication and Educational Research at the University of Zaragoza." Although one of the key issues in the cycle of all research and scientific innovation is the dissemination of the results achieved, it is a verifiable fact that in the disciplinary field of Information and Documentation in Spain, too often these gains are not always communicate properly and are only known by those directly involved in its development. This situation gives rise to many innovations remain hidden and ignored, or are barely visible, which causes some investigations can be repeated unnecessarily and in general, progress is slow. The aim of this study is to identify and systematize the means of dissemination of innovation and educational research in Information and Documentation, and to identify the main obstacles that hinder their visibility. To achieve this, it performs an analysis of available information on the academic and scientific production related to the object of study, which identifies two main types of broadcast channels: formal channels, including publications found (including scientific articles, monographs, contributions collected in conference proceedings, conferences, meetings, seminars, etc. ...), reports and other gray literature, seminars and meetings as well as prizes and distinctions, and, informal channels including among others the websites of teachers (such as blog, virtual learning platforms, institutional or personal pages etc. ...), mailing lists, emails and meetings with colleagues. Among the main findings highlight the criminality of the media and the tools that allow the location of the results of innovation and educational research in Information and Documentation, as well as identifying the main obstacles to their proper visibility.

The competency-based approach is a focus of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Provides a common international language, to define and express the academic and professional profiles considered optimal, and to set the curriculum offered by each university, as these proposals make training as the backbone to define the exact set of skills that can and should achieve the graduates in various disciplines and qualifications. The educational model set up around this concept is basic to a changing society that formulates and reformulates their demands constantly and simultaneously seeks to conceive in terms of university education and employability profile. In the Tuning Project (2000), one of the first initiatives was born in the Socrates program to respond to the Bologna Declaration and the Prague Communiqué, we formulated a list of thirty competences rather than related to any subject area or specific discipline, but related to all areas of professional and academic performance. These skills are classified into three levels: instrumental, interpersonal and systemic. While all are important, highlights the framed as "appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism." This competition covers interpersonal understanding and acceptance of diversity interindividual (sex, age, physical ability, sensory, intellectual or mental health), linguistic, social and cultural (religion, ideology and / or ethnicity) as a component of personal enrichment and collectively to develop harmonious relations among the people. It has psychological, social and professional and is intended to respond to cultural diversity in an increasingly globalized world. It also represents a set of attributes cross, valuable and useful to all people working in relationship with others. Implies express and understand different perspectives, negotiate meaning and express empathy, which is a relevant resource for professional achievement and citizenship. There are different models of this competition relate differently sociolinguistic components, communication and cultural, but the main challenge is to integrate outside those contexts. As with the other generic skills, it is necessary to establish mechanisms to facilitate acquisition and parameters for valuing. The current situation is irreversible and university classrooms are a mirror of society that will never be monocultural. To address this situation suggests some strategies such as: a) Develop educational interventions on knowledge and contact between different cultures, any disciplinary field, b) Facilitate and promote processes of exchange, interaction and cooperation between cultures, with a treatment equal to them (take the Erasmus model); c) Design specific training for teachers; d) Develop educational resources for multicultural work at the university level; e) Open specific lines of educational research and innovation-oriented teaching multiculturalism.

Piracy is a phenomenon evident and observable in all sectors of cultural industries, perceived very differently by different actors in the chain of content production, as some consider it a form of advertising that promotes the visibility of them, and that in any case not prevent interested readers go to the web sites of publishers and online bookstores to purchase a licensed version of them. The analysis of the uses of this proves the existence of a complementarity rather than a cannibalization of content, explained by the fact that the practitioners of it are both great readers and buyers.

This paper analyzes the user behavior in a interactive search of answers that includes mechanisms suggested terms. The analysis was performed using assessment methodologies applied in such experiments. It organized a group of 16 users, each of them should find the answer to eight questions, plus two training, only half applied the suggestion mechanism terms. The results show that the ability to add terms related to the question was highly valued by users, who considered it useful, and which were obtained more precise answers. So far we have used relations of co-occurrence of words to create a thesaurus of terms related to the question, which is displayed to the user through a floating layer, if desired, add to your question, but we are also working on techniques information extraction.

The media streaming is the set of products and techniques that are used for the dissemination of audio and video content over the Internet or intranet, regardless of whether the contents are already on a server or are being created at the time of dissemination. The multimedia objects can be requested "on demand", with management like that of a home movie, and can also be broadcasting the same content to multiple users simultaneously, analogous to the operation of television broadcasting. Although the contents can be installed on servers www, this is not the best option, so we recommend installing a dedicated server that allows broadcast media offer. The project aims to enhance teleformación. His potential is that it allows the display of multimedia object while the download is being produced, thus reducing the waiting time for the display of multimedia objects. At the same time, this mode favors the consumption of CPU resources is less. To implement the project using free software and contains an installation tutorial in order to facilitate the dissemination and application of research results in various educational fields, both within our own university and beyond. It is currently being implemented at the University of Salamanca through the virtual platform and their own institutional website.

The aim of this paper is to chart educational innovation in the disciplinary field of Information and Documentation in Spain from 1998 to present. The starting point is to consider that innovation is important for both students and faculty knowledge of the area of Library and Information Science. For the former, because it is oriented towards the acquisition of scientific and professional skills by finding the quality of teaching, emphasizing the ways of learning and not just the content and structure of qualifications. For the latter, because the educational innovation allows them to expand their teaching competence and merit necessary to achieve advancement in their academic career. At work delimiting the different perspectives from which to analyze the educational innovation in Information and Documentation: a) the objectives sought-implementation of improvement actions, pilot projects and innovative experiments, production of teaching materials and other learning resources support and design and implementation of new teaching methodologies, with emphasis on the detailed study of formal and informal channels through which results are disseminated (publications of scientific articles, monographs, conference proceedings, reports and other gray literature ; seminars, meetings and awards and honors), b) agents and recipients of innovation, viewed from different levels that involve (drivers of educational policy, academic administrators, faculty, administrative staff and students; c ) the methodology that is developed through strategic planning (invitations, programs and projects) in the context that favors the information technology and communication; d) the area in which it takes place, considered from the perspective geographical, institutional and academic e) the time frame that initiates and develops educational innovation. All these aspects are discussed in context within the framework of the Information Society that sponsors the European Higher Education Area and promote the tools.

This paper describes the participation of the REINA research group at CLEF 2009 Robust-WSD Task. We have participated in both monolingual and bilingual subtasks. In past editions of the robust task our research group obtained very good results for non-WSD experiments applying local query expansion using co-occurrence based thesauri constructed using windows of terms. We applied it again. For WSD experiments, our intention was to use the WSD information and WordNet for expansion, but we did not have time to use them. We only used the lemma proposed by the POS tagger of the WSD collection as a stemmer. In bilingual retrieval experiments, two on-line machine translation programs were used to translate topics, and translations were merged before performing a monolingual retrieval. We also applied the same local expansion technique. Our non-WSD runs obtained the top rank considering the GMAP measure (monolingual and bilingual subtasks). However, regarding expansion we viewed that the settings tuned for a system not always produces retrieval improvement when the conditions change: number of query terms, query language, document or query subject, linguistic approach, etc. Our WSD runs also obtained very good positions in the rankings even thought we only used partial WSD information. However, in comparison with non-WSD runs the retrieval performance made worse. We detected some homonym errors in the POS tagger and probably these errors are worse than the errors carried out by the Porter stemmer used in the non-WSD experiments.