1. I HEAR THE TRAIN A
COMIN’ – LIVE
Greg Tananbaum
November 5, 2010

2. Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5,
SESSION AGENDA
 Roundtable Insights
 Joe Esposito
 Questions and Discussion

3. Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5,
THE ROUNDTABLE
Doug Armato University of Minnesota
Geoff Bilder CrossRef
Jane Burke ProQuest
Terry Ehling Cornell University
Kevin Guthrie Ithaka
Phil Hurst The Royal Society
Peter Jerram Public Library of Science
James Mullins Purdue University
Jim Neal Columbia University
Ann Okerson Yale University
Ed Pentz CrossRef
John Sack Highwire
John Willinsky Public Knowledge Project

4. Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5,
Q. WHAT IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST GAME
CHANGER THAT WILL ALTER SCHOLARLY
COMMUNICATION IN THE NEXT 3-5
YEARS?
 Technology-driven reinvention
Storage and bandwidth
Mobile devices
Semantic web/data mining
 Economics-driven reinvention
Proliferation of market data makes change
less intimidating

5. Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5,
Q. WHAT IS THE MOST OVER-DISCUSSED
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION ISSUE,
AND WHY?
 Open Access
Trending downward
Practicality vs. ideology
 Library-press collaborations
 “Death of print”
 Better scholarly communication tools

6. Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5,
Q. IS THERE STILL A SCHOLARLY
COMMUNICATION CRISIS? IF SO,
WHAT IS IT?
 Challenge vs. crisis
Libraries
Information overabundance
Publishers
Adapting to change

7. Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5,
Q. DOES TRADITIONAL SCHOLARLY
PUBLISHING STILL MATTER?
 Yes!
 …but what is “traditional”?
 Form vs. function

8. Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5,
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

9. Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5,
THANKS, AND NOW ON WITH THE
SHOW…
Greg Tananbaum
greg@anianet.com
www.anianet.com

10. Tananbaum Train – LIVE November 5,
THANKS, AND NOW ON WITH THE
SHOW…
Greg Tananbaum
greg@anianet.com
www.anianet.com