Transcript Grey Literature in Scholarly Communication

Grey Literature in Scholarly
Communication
Current Thinking from Libraries
and Publishers
James Neal and Kate Wittenberg
A Library perspective
James Neal
What is Scholarly Communication?
• Creation of Knowledge and evaluation of
its Validity
• Preservation of Information
• Transmission of Information to Others
-Technologies
-Economics
-Institutions
What is Grey Literature?
“…that which is produced on all levels of
Government, academics, business, and industry
in print and electronic formats, but which is not
controlled by commercial publishers” (1997)
Key Characteristics: issuing organization
document types
value/costs
nature of presentation
level of peer review
What are Key Developments?
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Author Revolution
ATM Revolution
New Majority Student Revolution
Digital Preservation Revolution
Open Revolution
Google Revolution
What is the Urge to Publish?
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Communication
Academic Culture
Preservation of Ideas
Prestige and Recognition
Profit
What are Key Characteristics of
Electronic Scholarly
Communication? (per Cronin)
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New Economics
Vertical Integration
New Modes of Discourse
Democratization
Discipline Diversity
Importance of Trust
Key Characteristics
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Importance of Credibility
Velocity of Communication
Expanded Readership
Pluralism
Plasticity
Adaptivity
What are Quality Assessment
Systems?
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Peer Review
Peer Review Lite
Citation Measurement
Open/Community Peer Review
Career Review
Industry Review
What is the Repository Movement?
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Discipline Repositories
Institutional Repositories
Consortium Repositories
Departmental/School Repositories
Individual Repositories
Referatories/Virtual Repositories
What are Core Library Roles?
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Information Acquisition
Information Synthesis
Information Navigation
Information Dissemination
Information Interpretation
Information Understanding
Information Archiving
A Publisher Perspective
Kate Wittenberg
E-Publishing and Grey Literature
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Scholars’ thinking at its earliest stage
Timely, often requires frequent updating
Requires different form of peer review
Benefits from addition of disciplineappropriate tools and functionality
• With these tools, can be useful in teaching
as well as research
• Often not easily available to scholars,
students, or libraries
Case Study: Columbia International
Affairs Online (CIAO)
• Collaboration involving university press
and libraries
• Aggregates grey literature (working
papers, policy briefs, country data) in a
sub-discipline
• Imbeds grey lit within an infrastructure that
adds value to the scholarly content
(mapping and atlas function, teaching
case studies and course packs)
Grey Lit Suggests New Priorities
• Re-think the categories of traditional print
publications (books, journals, grey literature,
curriculum materials)
• Develop content in response to scholars’
research, teaching, and publishing needs
• Publishers as research centers that create new
models and actually lead innovation in a field
• Authors as collaborators in the creating new
kinds of publications within their discipline
Elements Needed for New EPublishing Models to Emerge
• Interest and initiative from faculty,
librarians/publishers
• Some form of peer review
• Copyright/permissions management
• Web development/design
• Access management/security/preservation
• Outreach/marketing/dissemination
• Sustainability plan (staffing, infrastructure)