Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010382590
L. Aina
A lot of studies on grey literature abound in the literature. Most of the studies, however, relate to disciplines other than LlS. This study determines the focus and trends of grey literature publications. Other objectives include determining the proportion of grey literature published that focuses on national, regional and global issues, identifying the various formats of grey literature prevalent in LIS, and the major sources used by information professionals in publishing their grey literature research.
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Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010382572
R. D. Cesare, G. Lazzari
The institutional goals and the organisational contexts of GL producers, determine the level and the process of production and diffusion. Furthermore GL producers do not all bring the same “dowry”: they have neither the same resources, nor the same information policy. Inspired by such considerations the Italian reference centre of SIGLE (System of Information on Grey Literature in Europe), has based its activity on the Cupertino with GL producers. To achieve this aim the Centre has evolved from a merely receptive role, consisting of pure and simple acquisition and bibliographic treatment of documents, to an active role, in order to control the very process of document production by exerting a consulting function on bibliographic aspects. In other words is the Centre that places itself at disposal of producers to solve all the problems connected with their participation in the SIGLE database. As an example of this policy the paper describes the interaction between the SIGLE Italian reference centre and the Library of Italian Chamber of Deputies which produces the database LEGO, which stands for Grey Literature Online, containing non commercial, official and administrative documents, produced and/or acquired by the Library since 1993. The consulting activity developed by the centre has allowed a fast and efficient acquisition of the document stored in LEGO. Finally the paper describes the type of documents in LEGO, the selection criteria and the issues connected with information integration.
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Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010382554
Bonnie A. Osif
Attention to infrastructure issues has increased in recent years. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA)and its reauthorization in the Transportation Efficiency Act of 1998 (TEA 21 ) have focused stronger attention on the need to encourage innovation, identify and facilitate partnerships, identify core research and provide assessment criteria. This has resulted in increased awareness that information is key to accomplishing these goals. The importance of international materials is now seen as critical to efficient utilization of knowledge. Reports a survey of 12 European transportation centers in nine countries during 1998. Information was gathered on local characteristics of researchers, areas of research specialization, formats and languages of resources used/borrowed by the researchers, local publications and their dissemination patterns, the utilization of US materials, and the role of the World Wide Web by the librarians, researchers and other staff at the transportation facility.
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Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010382563
Fethy Mili
What impact might electronic publishing have on grey literature? This work tries to give some answers based on changes in the publishing of economics research preprints or working‐paper series. Institutions and some members of the economics community have created archives to facilitate access to working paper series. In this document, we evaluate the prospects for electronic publishing of economics preprints using an inventory of material available from institutions’ web sites. Also the paper contains an overview of some working‐paper archives managed by economists.
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Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010382581
Michael L. Nelson, K. Maly
Considers a formal publication to represent an abstract to a larger body of work: a pvramid of scientific and technical information (STI). While this abstract may be sufficient for some applications, an in‐depth use or analysis is likely to require the supporting layers from the pyramid. Describes how “buckets” have been developed to preserve this pyramid of STI. Buckets provide an archive‐ and protoeol‐independent container construct in which all related information objects can be logically grouped together, archived, and manipulated as a single object. Furthermore, buckets are active archival objects and can communicate with each other, people, or arbitrary network services. Buckets are an implementation of the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) DL model. Discusses the motivation, design, and implication of bucket use in DLs with respect to grey literature.
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Pub Date : 2000-09-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010345546
J. Gelfand
This article introduces Laurie Isenberg, a former medical and special librarian, who has been involved in using, retrieving and processing grey literature, and the advantages and restrictions she has experienced in working with that form of information. She candidly shares her opinions about how grey literature supports medical research and practice and her commitments to promoting the ongoing exposure to grey literature.
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Pub Date : 2000-09-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010345564
Gerry McKiernan
Since its creation nearly ten years ago, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) e‐print service (arXiv.org) has revolutionized scholarly communication within many scientific communities. It has also inspired the development of alternatives to conventional and electronic journal publication in a variety of other disciplines. The LANL e‐print database is also serving as the core collection for two major investigations that seek to enhance access and navigation within and between electronic archives and special collections.
洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室(Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANL)的电子打印服务(arXiv.org)自近十年前创建以来，已经彻底改变了许多科学界的学术交流。它还激发了在各种其他学科中发展传统和电子期刊出版的替代品。LANL的电子打印数据库也作为两项主要调查的核心馆藏，旨在加强电子档案和特殊馆藏之间的访问和导航。
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Pub Date : 2000-09-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010345618
Michael Rosenblum
This article discusses the birthing of a new medium, videojournalism that provides a format for television and journalism and what this means for television and global access to information. This article chronicles how the mass media have developed a “grey literature” of their own, and how parallel it is to scholarly publishing activities.
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Pub Date : 2000-09-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010345537
D. Luzi
This paper outlines the principal stages in the development of grey literature (GL), from its first appearance in the post‐war period to its evolution into electronic GL. To this end, the study analyses some of the most important studies and conferences organised up to the 1990s. It also examines the first bibliographies and databases, which transformed the way in which GL was collected and distributed. The second part of the paper briefly outlines the main subjects addressed at international GL conferences, identifying both elements of continuity with earlier work and new developments.
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Pub Date : 2000-09-01DOI: 10.1108/14666180010345528
Ken Rutherford
When the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines international awareness was heightened about the efforts of NGOs worldwide to ban landmines. The international Mine Ban Treaty was signed on March 1, 1999 after serious use of the Internet to communicate how critical this was to global safety. The methods of sharing information between foreign governments and being able to track this critical communication is central to understanding how the treaty gained visibility and how NGOs created coalitions to assure the success of this work. This article talks about global communications and sharing that could not have taken place with speed, worldwide coverage, efficiency and cost‐effectiveness, if the Internet had not been born.
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