Eleventh Int. Conference on Grey Literature, Library of Congress, 14-15 December 2009
British Library (United Kingdom); INIST-CNRS (France); NYAM (United States); University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Mission Statement The Grey Literature Network Service was founded in 1992. The goal of GreyNet is to facilitate dialog, research, and communication between persons and organisations 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, a combined Distribution List, The Grey Journal (TGJ), GL Compendium (GLC), and curriculum development in the field of grey literature.
Grey Literature "Information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body." (Luxembourg, 1997 - Expanded in New York, 2004)
GreyNet Award Recipient 2009
Debbie Rabina, Ph.D., Assistant Professor atPratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science was voted GreyNet Award Recipient 2009. This award is in recognition for her contribution to the field of grey literature over the past year. Nominations for the GreyNet Award are based on (1) Results from the GL10 Participant Evaluation Forms, (2) Publication of the author’s full-text paper in the GL10 Conference Proceedings, (3) Selection and publication of the author’s conference paper as a journal article, whereby research results originating in the GL-Conference Series are exported and become accessible via other channels, (4) Prior history of the author on the topic of grey literature, and (5) Willingness to attend the GreyNet Award Dinner in order to personally receive the honor. This year's GreyNet Award Dinner will take place on December 13th 2009 in Washington D.C., USA. For more biographical information on this author and other authors in the field of grey literature, visit "WHOIS 2009"
2008 was a great year for Grey Literature and GreyNet. If I might take just a moment to review with you some of last year's highlights:
On February 5th, I hand delivered the initial announcement of GL10 to members of the ICSTI meeting in Paris. It was at that same meeting that I met Brian Hitson, Associate Director of OSTI/DOE, who accepted to keynote at the Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature;
On February 25th, The British Library took on GreyNet Associate Membership. It was The British Library who co-hosted the York Seminar in 1978, paving the way for the exploitation of European Grey Literature;
On February 29th, Leap Day, GreyNet’s first batch file consisting of the GL8 Conference records was uploaded in the OpenSIGLE Repository. Subsequent batch files followed periodically during the course of the year;
On April 11th, the Grey Literature Community voted for the first time a GreySource Frontrunner. GreySource is one of GreyNet’s most trafficked WebPages providing net-users immediate access to subject based resources and collections in grey literature. 'Information for Practice (IP)' edited by Prof. Gary Holden of New York University’s School of Social Work was chosen "GreySource Frontrunner 2008".
On October 7th, The Grey Journal, An International Journal on Grey Literature (ISSN 1574-1796) won the Victorine van Schaick Prize 2008 - a Dutch National Award presented at the Netherlands Online Conference in the Amsterdam RAI;
On October 24th, I paid a site visit to The Library of Congress where GL11, the Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature will be hosted by FLICC-FEDLINK on December 14-15, 2009;
On November 17th, GreyNet received a green light for uploading statistical datasets in the DANSEASY Repository. There is an explicit understanding that the majority of these datasets originate outside The Netherlands from countries around the world. During GL10, a demonstration of this cross linking between the DANSEASY Repository and the OpenSIGLE Repository was presented;
On December 4th, the GL9 conference papers became available in the OpenSIGLE Repository - marking that the past 5 consecutive years (2003-2007) of published research in the GL-Series are now available via open access;
On December 7th, Anne Gentil-Beccot from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was presented the GreyNet Award 2008. This award was in recognition for her outstanding contribution to the field of grey literature;
On December 8th and 9th, the Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature was held in Science Park Amsterdam. A special review of GL10 based on the completed evaluation forms by the conference participants will follow in the January 2009 Conference Memorandum.
GreyNet is proud of these accomplishments and particularly grateful to its Members, who guarantee both the continuity and development of its networked products and services.
All that's good in 2009, Dr. Dominic Farace
GreyNet Publications from 1994-2000 via BLDSC
GreyNet publications from 1994-2000 are now available on interlibrary loan/document delivery via the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) in Boston Spa, UK. These include the Proceedings of the first four international conferences in the GL-series (ISSN 1386-2316), as well as the 4th edition of the Annotated Bibliography on the Topic of Grey Literature (ISBN 90-74854-26-5). Together these five information resources contain the full text of some 120 papers and more than 750 bibliographic records most of which are annotated, and are a valuable resource for authors, researchers, and students. Contact the British Library Conference Information Line and they will help you with your request: Tel: + 44 (0)1937 546158, Fax: + 44 (0)1937 546798, Email: dsc-conf-infoline@bl.uk
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