1. Greg Tananbaum ScholarNext Consulting November 4, 2016
Winds of Change
Greg Tananbaum
ScholarNext Consulting
November 4, 2016
My background

2. Ground to Cover Globalization of Research Interdisciplinary Growth
Proliferation of Open(s)
Challenges and Opportunities for Research Stakeholders

3. Globalization of Research
Growth in Annual Web of Science Record Counts

4. Globalization of Research
Number of Countries with 100,000+ Records in Web of Science

5. Globalization of Research
Number of Countries with 10,000+ Records in Web of Science

6. Globalization of Research
Countries with 10,000+ Records in Web of Science, 2015
USA AUSTRALIA IRAN MALAYSIA ROMANIA
PR CHINA SPAIN SWEDEN ISRAEL IRELAND
ENGLAND SOUTH KOREA TAIWAN SINGAPORE EGYPT
GERMANY BRAZIL BELGIUM MEXICO NEW ZEALAND
JAPAN NETHERLANDS DENMARK NORWAY ARGENTINA
FRANCE RUSSIA SCOTLAND SOUTH AFRICA THAILAND
ITALY SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA FINLAND CHILE
CANADA TURKEY PORTUGAL GREECE PAKISTAN
INDIA POLAND CZECH REP SAUDI ARABIA HUNGARY

7. Globalization of Research
Bottom Line:
Lots of growth in scholarly outputs
Research is a global enterprise, at scale

8. Interdisciplinary Growth
Citations as Leading Indicator of Interdisciplinary Growth
Source: V. Larivière & Y. Gingras in Beyond Bibliometrics (eds B. Cronin & C. R. Sugimoto) 187–200 (MIT Press, 2014)

9. Interdisciplinary Growth
Source:

10. Interdisciplinary Growth
Bottom Line:
Dramatic rise of interdisciplinary funding and research…why?
Organic counter-reaction to years of sub-specialization
Concerted efforts of large research funders
Scholarly publishing…really!

11. Proliferation of Open(s)
Open Articles Indexed in Web of Science Annually

12. Proliferation of Open(s)
Global Registry of Research Data Repositories,
Source:

13. Proliferation of Open(s)

14. Proliferation of Open(s)
Bottom Line:
They are indeed proliferating.

15. Challenges and Opportunities for Research Stakeholders
Where to lead and where to get the heck out of the way
What can the institution do to facilitate collaborations with international research nodes?
How can the library cut through the thicket of new papers and new journals to help patrons find materials that further their research and pedagogy?
What can the sponsored research office do to bring diverse teams from across disciplines together on grant proposals?
What can the library do to ensure that resources in adjacent disciplines are obvious and discoverable to researchers?
What infrastructure can the library identify and/or provide to promote good data sharing practices?

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Greg Tananbaum
ScholarNext Consulting