GreyNet Milestones 2009 are Sustained Deliverables in 2010

A Year-end review of Grey Literature and GreyNet's commitment to
research, publication, open access, and education in this field of information

GREY LITERATURE IN LIBRARY

AND INFORMATION STUDIES
 
The further rise of electronic publishing has come to change the scale and diversity of grey literature facing librarians and other information practitioners. This compiled work brings together research and authorship over the past decade dealing with both the supply and demand sides of grey literature. While this book is written with students and instructors of Colleges and Schools of Library and Information Science in mind, it likewise serves as a reader for information professionals working in any and all like knowledge-based communities
 
 
Contents


Introduction Grey Literature (Farace and Schöpfel)

Part I – Producing, Processing, and Distributing Grey Literature

Section One: Producing and Publishing Grey Literature

Chapter 1 Grey Publishing and the Information Market: A New Look at Value

Chains and Business Models (Roosendaal)

Chapter 2 How to assure the Quality of Grey Literature: The Case of Evaluation

Reports (Weber)

Chapter 3 Grey Literature produced and published by Universities: A Case for

ETDs (Južnič)

Section Two: Collecting and Processing Grey Literature

Chapter 4 Collection building with special Regards to Report Literature

(Newbold and Grimshaw)

Chapter 5 Institutional Grey Literature in the University Environment (Siegel)

Chapter 6 Copyright Concerns Confronting Grey Literature (Lipinski)

Section Three: Channels for Access and Distribution of Grey Literature

Chapter 7 Theses and Dissertations (Stock and Paillassard)

Chapter 8 Grey Documents in Open Archives (Luzi)

Chapter 9 OpenSIGLE – Crossroads for Libraries, Research and Educational

Institutions in the Field of Grey Literature (Farace, Frantzen, Stock, Henrot, and

Schöpfel)

Part II – Uses, Applications, and Trends in Grey Literature

Section Four: Applications and Uses of Grey Literature

Chapter 10 The driving and evolving Role of Grey Literature in High-Energy

Physics (Gentil-Beccot)

Chapter 11 The Use and Influence of Information Produced as Grey Literature

by International, Intergovernmental Marine Organizations: Overview of Current

Research (MacDonald, Wells, Cordes, Hutton, Cossarini, and Soomai)

Chapter 12 Grey Literature in Karst Research: The Evolution of the Karst Information

Portal, KIP (Chavez)

Chapter 13 Grey Literature Repositories: Tools for NGOs Involved in Public

Health Activities in Developing Countries (Crowe, Hodge, and Redmon)

Section Five: Future Trends in Grey Literature

Chapter 14 Blog Posts and Tweets: The Next Frontier for Grey Literature

(Banks)

Chapter 15 Assessing the Return on Investments in Grey Literature for Institutional

Repositories (Schöpfel and Boukacem)

Chapter 16 e-Science, Cyberinfrastructure and CRIS (Jeffery and Asserson)

Chapter 17 Course and Learning Objective in the Teaching of Grey Literature:

The Role of Library and Information Science Education (Rabina)

Appendices

Appendix I Biographical Notes on the Authors

Appendix II Index to Web based Resources in Grey Literature

Appendix III List of Grey Literature Document Types

Appendix IV Collections of Conference based Papers, 1993–2010

Appendix V Thematic Index – The Grey Journal, 2005–2010

Keyword Index