i hear the train a comin' live by greg tananabaum, scholarnext

I HEAR THE TRAIN A COMIN’ – LIVE Greg Tananbaum

November 5, 2010

Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5, 2010

SESSION AGENDA

Roundtable Insights

Joe Esposito

Questions and Discussion

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THE ROUNDTABLE

Doug Armato University of MinnesotaGeoff Bilder CrossRefJane Burke ProQuestTerry Ehling Cornell UniversityKevin Guthrie IthakaPhil Hurst The Royal SocietyPeter Jerram Public Library of ScienceJames Mullins Purdue UniversityJim Neal Columbia UniversityAnn Okerson Yale UniversityEd Pentz CrossRefJohn Sack HighwireJohn Willinsky Public Knowledge Project

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Q. WHAT IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST GAME CHANGER THAT WILL ALTER SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION IN THE NEXT 3-5 YEARS?

Technology-driven reinventionStorage and bandwidthMobile devicesSemantic web/data mining

Economics-driven reinventionProliferation of market data makes change

less intimidating

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Q. WHAT IS THE MOST OVER-DISCUSSED SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION ISSUE, AND WHY?

Open AccessTrending downwardPracticality vs. ideology

Library-press collaborations

“Death of print”

Better scholarly communication tools

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Q. IS THERE STILL A SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION CRISIS? IF SO, WHAT IS IT?

Challenge vs. crisisLibraries

Information overabundance

PublishersAdapting to change

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Q. DOES TRADITIONAL SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING STILL MATTER?

Yes!

…but what is “traditional”?

Form vs. function

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Q. IN ONE WORD, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION?

Dynamic

Multi-faceted

Torrent

Network

Exciting x2

Flux

Reinvention x2

Necessary

Different

Vital

Experimental

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THANKS, AND NOW ON WITH THE SHOW…

Greg Tananbaumgreg@anianet.com

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