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Towards a Prague Definition of Grey Literature
Schöpfel, Joachim
The most common definition of grey literature, the so-called ‘Luxembourg definition’, was discussed and approved during the 3rd International Conference on Grey Literature in 1997. In 2004, at the 6th International Conference on Grey literature in New York City, a postscript was added. The main characteristic of this definition is its economic perspective on grey literature, based on business, publishing and distribution models of the disappearing Gutenberg galaxy. With the changing research environment and new channels of scientific communication, it becomes clear that grey literature needs a new conceptual framework.
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Peering through the Review Process: Towards Transparency in Grey Literature
Farace, Dominic
Now that grey literature is readily catalogued, referenced, cited, and openly accessible to subject based communities as well as net users, the claims that grey literature is unpublished or non-published have sufficiently been put to rest. However, now that grey literature has met these former challenges and entered mainstream publishing, it requires in the spirit of science to have a system in place for the quality control of its content. This new challenge has recently been spurred by the IPCC affaire involving the use/misuse of grey literature and is now almost a daily topic in the world media. The purpose of this study will be to explore the degree to which grey literature is reviewed and to compare similarities and differences with formal peer review carried out in various degrees by commercial publishers. This study will further distinguish the review process implemented by grey publishers from that of mavericks and vanity press, where personal opinion and pure speculation run rampant. This study looks at the body of literature on peer review and its relatedness to grey literature. Key concepts and elements in peer review form the framework for a comparative analysis, and these are examined in light of guidelines on peer review submitted by publishers. In addition, alternative models for peer review found during the course of study are compared for their relevance to grey literature.
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The National Repository of Grey Literature Partner Network
Fürstová, Iveta
The growing need for access to collections of grey literature in the field of science, research and education leading to a coordinated collection building and collection at all levels. National Technical Library (NTL) has provided the collection of grey literature at the national level through the project "The Digital Library for Grey Literature – Functional Model and Pilot Implementation” supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic under research program projects.The project aims to build the National Repository of Grey Literature (NRGL). A network of grey literature producers has come into being along with the building of the NRGL digital repository. Emergence this network is conditioned by several reasons. NRGL focuses on technical grey literature, especially in science, research and education. The main partners and sources of gray literature in the field of science and research are the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, public research institutions and grant agencies. In the area of education are especially high school, library and museums. Cooperation is also focused on public administration and can occur even in the commercial sector. The partner can not become any body, because NRGL to offer its users the technical documents gray literature with original and valuable content. An important factor contributing to the need for networking is the necessity of abiding by Czech law, primarily laws to do with copyright, the protection of privacy and general contractual rights. Paper presents NRGL building a partner network with specific examples from within the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, research institutions, universities, libraries, etc., and draw attention to important legal issues from the grey literature. To promote cooperation is the project's website (http://nrgl.techlib.cz) and developed the methodology, procedures, and organized training.
Fulltext: idr-49_1 -  PDF
Slides: idr-49_2 - PDF
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