M. FATHI Abbes

The last decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century
has witnessed a tremendous progress in the field of information technology, computers and
communication. It produced many mechanisms of knowledge manufacturing, and more modern
technological means that made the whole world a small village seen through a computer screen, as
expressed by the communication scholar Marshall McLuhan. It has brought about a number of
changes in this era, including all sectors and economic, industrial, commercial and intellectual
activities. With the expansion and the continuous development of the digital technologies, some
expect that the information and communication technology is about to make a qualitative leap in
the practice of reading habits. Thanks to the huge expansion in the use of multimedia and the smart
systems to search for and retrieve information, through which a new reading is produced, in which
the reader navigates in an unlimited symbolic space of texts, shapes, sounds and audio-visual effects
that enable him to interact with them dynamically. The reader can now benefit from knowledge
without being bound by some major barriers such as time and place.
This study dealt with the transformations that the reading act has known as a result of the
effects of the modern technologies, and the extent of the readers’ interaction with these
transformations. Added to this, it addressed the concepts and basics of both reading and the modern
technologies used in it, highlighting the effects of the latter on the reading and its modes.
The study is built on a descriptive basis. It has concluded a set of results that show the extent
to which readers interact with the transformations that have occurred in reading because of the
modern technological influences on its various modes.
At the end of this study, the researcher came up with the formulation of a set of
recommendations aim at enhancing and encouraging the act of digital reading among individuals, by
investing in modern technology, and employing it in learning and teaching, so that readers can
achieve their various reading satisfactions.
- Keywords: the paper reading, the digital reading, the modern technologies, reading
transformations, reading behaviors.

The digital information content industry is among the important projects for
societies to enter the information society and the knowledge society, and the digital content
for scientific research is the most important source of the research process in the global
evaluation of universities, and therefore it is difficult to objectively evaluate universities in
the field of providing digital content due to the lack of scientific and research production in a
digital way Published on the official websites of these universities, despite the availability of
this scientific and research production in paper form to faculty members. Therefore, many
universities have taken effective measures to improve the Arab digital content for scientific
research by adopting a training matrix for faculty members to raise awareness and train on
mechanisms for raising full research with the aim of making scientific content digitally
available on modern means, foremost of which is social networking, which increases access
to opportunities from society Academic internal and external and raises the number of
reference citations to this research, and many universities have encouraged and motivated
faculty members to register on the Google Scholar website to expand the availability of
visibility for this scientific research so countries are striving to Its digital content on the World
Wide Web, and academic academic information content produced within university
institutions is among the important fields for developing the Arab digital information content
industry, as these academic institutions provide professors and researchers with the
opportunity to publish their work and research in scientific journals and participate in
national and international conferences, and this study aims To know what the Arab
academic information content industry is, the reality of this industry, as well as the reasons
for its weakness and procedures for its development. The study concluded that the Arab
digital content is characterized by weakness, due to various factors, including the general
weakness in the structure of research and development in Arab countries and the absence of
an Arab strategy for the manufacture of information content.
Keywords: Content industry, Academic Institutions, Arabic digital information content.

Professional networking are among the latest means that researchers
and academics use increasingly in order to develop and enhance their
presence on the direct line,and it is the thing which has become
indispensable for any researcher,every network of these networks
gives a number of services, tools, possibilities which can help
researchers in their different activities that concern the research ,like
contacting and communicating others ,and also getting scientific
informations such as articles and researchs, This research aims to
identify the most prominent types of professional communication
networks, as well as to identify the most important features and
services that these networks provide to their users, including
researchers and academics, in the field of research activity represented
in the manufacture of informational contents of various forms and
types.
The research concluded that professional communication
networks, foremost among which are ResearchGate, Linked In
Network, Academia.edu Network and Slide Share.
It has a set of features that would have a significant impact on
researchers' activity by providing researchers with the ability to
identify and communicate with researchers and scientists from their
scientific department and exchange scientific discussions or by
making scientific research available on its pages, which gives the
latter a clear picture of its value and the academic reputation of its
book through The site counts the reference citations for scientific
research recorded and exposed.
Key words:
Professional networking, Scientific and research activities,
research gate, academia.edu, linked in ,slide share

Academic researchers often do not find good results for their research on well-known search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Ping, and although the Google search engine is the most powerful search engine in the world, its mixed results do not meet the needs of scholars, students, professors and researchers who wish to carry out academic research, so it is better for them to go To specialized academic research sources. Here we review a list of the best academic scientific search engines that aim to make scientific subjects accessible to all, knowing that most of them support only the English language.

The new digital environment in today's world poses challenges for the information specialist, towards the intensive use of information and communication technologies and adopting a new concept and initiative in developing its functions and office services through dealing with the products of the digital environment to facilitate access to and benefit from them. This study comes to shed light on the current status of the continuous training of the information specialist in the Algerian university libraries through Facebook, to raise a number of questions and reach a set of results and proposals to advance the continuous training within these documentary institutions so that they are at the level of their pioneers achieving that added value and a qualitative leap in Providing digital services and office products. The study aims to identify the reality of the continuous training practiced by the information specialist through his use of the Facebook site on the one hand, and the most important advantages and advantages that this site provides to the information specialist, which helps him in advancing the office service on the other hand. This leads us to ask about the reality of the continuous training of the information specialist through Facebook.