This document discusses new practices in digital humanities and open access. It notes that digital practitioners now engage in connected, collaborative, and multidisciplinary research using new tools like databases, software, and analyzing big datasets. These experimental practices allow for rethinking and extending the humanities through new materials and methods. The document also discusses how blogs have become an important online research tool and medium for sharing ideas in humanities and social sciences. Finally, it suggests that the open access revolution will also come to books through new models enabled by social media and digital technologies.