Grey Literature Strategies

Use the link to access more information about the project undertaken by the Swinburne Institute for Social Research. A brief overview reads as follows: “Research literature produced and disseminated outside of commercial publishing (grey literature) makes a substantial contribution to public policy, education, commercial innovation and social development. Digital technology has radically increased our capacity to 'publish' research informally however many of the social and economic benefits are then lost as grey literature lacks bibliographic and production standards, evaluation criteria, systematic collection and preservation strategies. This project will provide best practice guidelines for producing and managing grey literature in Australia in order to tranform access to public interest research for the whole community. It will identify changes to national information policies, collecting practices and organisational procedures, including digital content production, metadata standards, network collaboration, and information collection.”