Grey literature in library and information studies - Farace, Dominic J. 1949-; Schöpfel, Joachim 1957- (De Gruyter Saur, 2010)
The further rise of electronic publishing has come to change the scale and diversity of grey literature facing librarians and other information practitioners. This compiled work brings together research and authorship over the past decade dealing with both the supply and demand sides of grey literature. While this book is written with students and instructors of Colleges and Schools of Library and Information Science in mind, it likewise serves as a reader for information professionals working in any and all like knowledge-based communities
Includes bibliographical references and index
Grey publishing and the information market : a new look at value chains and business models / Roosendaal -- How to assure the quality of grey literature : the case of evaluation reports / Weber -- Grey literature produced and published by universities : a case for ETDs / Južnič -- Collection building with special regards to report literature / Newbold and Grimshaw -- Institutional grey literature in the university environment / Siegel -- Copyright concerns confronting grey literature / Lipinski -- Theses and dissertations / Stock and Paillassard -- Grey documents in open archives / Luzi -- OpenSIGLE : crossroads for libraries, research, and educational institutions in the field of grey literature / Farace [and others] -- The driving and evolving role of grey literature in high-energy physics / Gentil-Beccot -- The use and influence of information produced as grey literature by international, intergovernmental marine organizations : overview of current research / MacDonald [and others] -- Grey literature in Karst research : the evolution of the Karst Information Portal, KIP / Chavez -- Grey literature repositories : tools for NGOs involved in public health activities in developing countries / Crowe, Hodge, and Redmon -- Blog posts and tweets : the next frontier for grey literature / Banks -- Assessing the return on investments in grey literature for institutional repositories / Schöpfel and Boukacem -- e-Science, cyberinfrastructure, and CRIS / Jeffery and Asserson -- Course and learning objective in the teaching of grey literature : the role of library and information science education / Rabina -- Appendix I. Biographical notes on the authors -- Appendix II. Index to web based resources in grey literature -- Appendix III. List of grey literature document types -- Appendix IV. Collections of conference based papers, 1993-2010 -- Appendix V. Thematic index, The grey journal, 2005-2010