Understanding the 21st Century Research Landscape: Emerging Trends and Needs Within and Across Disciplines – Perspectives from a Business Library

Abstract

The needs of researchers in key disciplines are changing rapidly and this has important implications for the library’s role in enhancing research productivity and impact. This session will create a roadmap for supporting 21st Century research needs that draws on published research and rubber-hits-the-road insight from subject experts. Are there common threads to 21st Century research needs that cut across all subject areas? To what extent are emerging trends common to the sciences, social sciences, or humanities and to what degree are they discipline-specific? Key areas to be explored will include research funding trends, new methodologies such as article datamining, content needs such as e-books and datasets, emerging research technologies and tools, and new approaches to collaboration and dissemination of research findings. This presentation was the one focused on business research in an action-based learning context (Ross School of Business at University of Michigan)