Over 200 Commentaries now enhance GreyNet’s Collection of Conference Preprints
abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20
Summary:
[Use the link above to access the post forwarded from the SPARC OA Forum] “The OpenGrey Repository now houses over 200 post-publication commentaries written by Pratt students in the course of their Master’s Program in Library and Information Sciences... This marks the close of 1st Phase in the Enhanced Publications Project, the results of which are openly accessible via the OpenGrey Repository ... The 2nd Phase in the Enhanced Publications Project will be carried out in advance of the Fourteenth International Conference on Grey Literature and deals with crosslinking research data to full-text publications...” [ For more information about the Enhanced Publications Project please see the full text pdf at http://www.greynet.org/images/GL13-S4P,_Farace_et_al.pdf ... The following descriptions are from the websites of OpenGrey and GreyNet: “Grey Literature is a field in library and Information science that deals with the production, distribution, and access to multiple document types produced on all levels of government, academics, business, and organization in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body... OpenGrey is a multidisciplinary European database, covering science, technology, biomedical science, economics, social science and humanities... The goal of GreyNet is to facilitate dialog, research, and communication between persons and organizations in the field of grey literature. GreyNet further seeks to identify and distribute information on and about grey literature in networked environments. Its main activities include the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, the creation and maintenance of web-based resources, a moderated Listserv and a LinkedIn Group. Further activities include: The Grey Journal, An International Journal on Grey Literature, curriculum development, as well as training and education in the field of grey literature.]