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Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000
ISSN 1389-1812
GreyNet Membership 2000
Grey Literature and the Web of Innovation
GL-Compendium, a Netbased Directory of Grey Literature Collections
Out Now... GL'99 Conference Proceedings, International Guide
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GreyNet Membership 2000
In 1992, GreyNet commenced activities on a subscription only basis. Over the past eight years it has developed into the international Grey Literature Network Service for which it was originally established.
In 1998, GreyNet sought and found an infrastructure in which it could further expand and develop to meet the needs and demands of an increasingly productive and conscious global, grey literature community.
And, in 2000, GreyNet seizes the moment to move from a subscriber base and offer membership to those in the grey literature community, who are and have been responsible for its success.
GreyNet realizes that the new decade brings with it as many innovations in the information sector as in the past decade. Aware of this tremendous expansion, GreyNet does not want to go it alone. Instead, you are invited to join in this first time membership offer.
In the coming months, GreyNet will be engaged in the formation of an international Editorial and Advisory Board (EAB). One which will not only span sectors of government, academics, business and industry, but which will also represent the special areas of interest in grey literature. GreyNet's Editorial and Advisory Board will be involved in the Program and Planning activities for the Fifth International Conference on Grey Literature, GL'2001.
If you are not yet a member of GreyNet, please join us today:
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Grey Literature and the Web of Innovation
Discovering Information Resources in Business, Government, Academics, and other Knowledge Rich Communities.
Track C: Technical Session on Grey Literature at NOM'2000
Chair : Judy Luther, Informed Strategies
Grey literature was redefined at the 1997 Luxembourg Convention. It is that which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, not controlled by commercial publishers. Over the past 30 years, since this term has been in use, it has steadily moved into the mainstream of information society. In the last decade of the 20th Century, it has come to dominate information supply side, and well before the end of the first decade of this 21st Century, Grey Literature will also dominate information demand side. The term Grey Literature had to be redefined not only because it met the problems, which it originally faced; but, more importantly, by doing so, it came to challenge commercial publishers, who had done everything to question the value of grey literature.
Because the producers of grey literature are the users of grey literature, it was but a matter of time, before academic institutions, business and industry, as well as government and international organisations realised that what they were producing in print was not a commercially viable product, however, its content was of equal value to commercial publications. With the technological developments, especially, the World Wide Web, Grey literature is now also seen by commercial publishers as both knowledge rich and market ready.
The speakers in this panel session will help you to understand and discover the wealth of grey literature on the web.
Abstracts
The Grey Link in the Information Supply and Demand Chain
Dominic Farace, GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service
In the field of grey literature, perhaps even more than in other fields, Internet brings a deep change in the typology of information sources, in their circulation, production and use. Some typical features of GL such as quick and informal information exchange, particularly appreciated by businesses, are increased by the potentialities of the Net. Since the rise of Internet and the development of electronic access to information, an increasing mass of documents is available to a growing number of users. In this context, we can no longer talk of the limited dissemination of non-commercial, hard-to-access information and documentation.
Corporate Research: Accessing Grey Literature through Traditional Sources
Helen Barsky-Atkins and Helen Szigeti, ISI
It has long been the function of secon-dary, or abstracting and indexing A&I, services to provide users with ready means to identify and access primary documents. A&I services traditionally provide this access to a limited number of primary document types; many services index only journal articles. As the various types of GL (which in the past have been difficult to find for both users and A&I's) are becoming more easily accessible through the world wide web, they are becoming integrated more and more into existing A&I services. Secondary services are expanding their products' content beyond descriptions of journal articles and books to descriptions of, and links to, new types of documents. In this paper we will provide examples of how this trend - expanding the types of documents that are indexed and/or linked to - serves the needs of the corporate research community.
Grey Literature in the Government: Mixing Up Black & White
Bonnie Carroll, Information International Associates, Inc.
Today's information technologies have fundamentally changed the nature of communication and are dramatically impacting the publication processes that have supported governmental functions. This includes scholarship (research & development), operations, and intelligence. In particular, the Internet has transformed the traditional life cycle of "documents" to the extent that the concept of a document itself has been a point of debate. In this regard, the definition of GL becomes a useful concept to help inform the discussion. We will explore the nature of GL in the context of a government structure which has been a strong advocate of an electronic society. S&T information will be used as a case study.
Grey Literature in Academics and Other Knowledge Rich Communities
Julia Gelfand, University of California, Irvine
Universities and academic research environments have been hotbeds of creativity in all disciplines they support. In addition, the proliferation of multidisciplinary activity and new emerging subdisciplines has spawned innovative practices of scholarly communication suggesting a variety of creative information products and partnerships between academic institutions, government and private industry. Many of these resources and its content had and have enormous value to diverse populations and did not make it into traditional publishing pipelines. Options for GL have multiplied with electronic distribution and the reliance of the Internet. This paper will explore how scholarly communication channels and new information technologies now enhance the attraction and value of GL from origins in academic communities and have positioned GL as knowledge in a more mainstream path for access, delivery, manipulation, use, and archival retention.
GL-Compendium
A Netbased Directory of Grey Literature Collections
A Major Development for Information Management
GL-Compendium: a Netbased Directory of Grey Literature Collections is a unique, online database that will enable librarians and researchers to locate grey literature special collections - quickly and easily.
Records will provide details of:
Descriptions and classifications
Document types
Contact details
Access free, paid or restricted
Language of documents
And will cover - annual reports, case studies, committee reports, compliance reports, conference papers, dissertations, lectures, research reports, scientific protocols and white papers etc. held globally by academic, public, corporate and government libraries.
Features
International and multidisciplinary in scope
Standardised, hyper-linked records of grey literature collections
A detailed description of what each collection contains in every record
Produced, edited and updated electronically
SIGLE Classification (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe).
Your collection can make the Difference!
Help us to help you, by sending details of your valuable special collections for inclusion in the GL-Compendium, free-of-charge.
How your library will benefit:
Create international awareness of your collection
Increased collection use, if more people know where to access the information
Promote your organisation at no additional cost
Records can be updated online, via user-friendly interface software.
The main aim of this service is to provide high value content at low cost for libraries. You can be the key to the success of GL-Compendium by supplying details of your collections.
Publisher
GL-Compendium is published by GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service
in association with MCB University Press Ltd and with the courtesy of the European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation (EAGLE), who have allowed for the use of the SIGLE Classification System.
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Collection Name
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European Centre for High Energy Physics, Library
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CERN
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20B High Energy Physics
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High-energy physics and related technology
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Annual Reports, E-prints, Preprints, Proceedings, Reports, Theses.
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Microfiche, Online, PDF/PS, Printed.
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English, Other
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International |
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CERN has collected grey literature within high-energy physics since the beginning of the 1950s and has now a vast collection comprising around 500.000 documents. Documents received after 1980 are retrievable via the catalogue. 95% of the documents are in English, the other 5% are in other languages.
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Non-restricted
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Free-of-charge
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Collection URL
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http://weblib.cern.ch
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Library / Holding *
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CERN Scientific Information Service
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CERN
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Rt. de Meyrin
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Geneva 23
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1211
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Switzerland
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http://library.cern.ch
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CERN
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Mr. Jens Vigen
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Jens.Vigen@cern.ch
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27/11/99 |
Out Now...
GL'99 Conference Proceedings, International Guide
GL'99 Conference Proceedings
New Frontiers in Grey Literature
Foreword
We have been brought together by the common theme "New Frontiers in Grey Literature", to discuss new worlds of topics, formats, uses & applications of Grey Literature - both in print and electronic formats, not controlled by commercial publishers. Nevertheless, we hold this information to be valuable - responsible often in the first place for that which later only becomes recognized in small measure. Our frontiers cross time and space. Temporal, because we are on the eve of a new century, a new millennium. Spatial, belonging to geographical, regional, as well as, virtual space and locators. We are here not as one, but as many and varied; however, we share a common vision, a noble mission - not as pioneers but instead as that which we are:
Librarian and Documentalists,
Professors and Lecturers,
Editors and Publishers,
Managers and Policy Makers,
Project Coordinators and Database Administrators,
Journalists and Business Analysts,
Researchers and Information Specialists.
Your one and real mission - not impossible, but instead inspired - to demonstrate at this international forum, the results of 49 authors and co-authors months of research and writing. Bridging theoretical constructs and academic terminology with empirical facts, models, and paradigms.
At this fourth international conference, perhaps a bit more than at the past three in this series, we stand at the crossroads, not on the periphery, but at the very heart of this grey matter. Now, ready more than ever to demonstrate that grey literature is not merely the document in electronic and print format, but is that which encompasses the very process of communication responsible for knowledge transfer - encoded and deciphered.
Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature : GL'99 Conference Proceedings : New Frontiers in Grey Literature, Washington D.C., 4-5 October 1999 / compiled by D.J. Farace ; with the assistance of J.Frantzen. -Amsterdam : GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service, January 2000. - XII, 322 p. ; 30 cm. - Index. -(GL-Conference series, ISSN 1386-2316 ; No. 4)
ISBN: 90-74854-24-9 : 
55 / US$ 55
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International Guide
Now in its Fifth edition
The fifth edition of this International Guide to Persons and Organisations in Grey Literature, much like the former, has been updated based on an email survey carried out in the final quarter of 1999. The annual e-survey together with the ongoing maintenance of GreyNet's datafile provide an accurate snapshot of the Grey Circuit on the actual date of publication. I would like to thank the hundreds of respondents from more than 40 countries worldwide for their contribution to this information resource.
International Guide to Persons and Organisations in Grey Literature / compiled by D.J. Farace ; with the assistance of J. Frantzen. - 5th edition. - Amsterdam : GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service, January 2000. - vi, 71 p. ; 30 cm. - Indexes
ISBN 90-74854-27-3 : 30 / US$ 30
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