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Culture in action : studies in Welsh ethnology
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Looking for Information that is Not Easy to Find: An Inventory of LibGuides in Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions Devoted to Grey Literature
No full textIn today’s academic society, one of the most popular web-publishing mediums is a university or college LibGuide. Succinctly defined as a content management and publishing system (Giustini, 2016), these sources of information promote knowledge and learning, and are often seen as the perfect solution for busy librarians and subject specialists. Founded in 2007 by Slaven Zivkovic (Springshare, 2013), an entrepreneur with several years’ experience working in libraries, and currently hosted by Springshare, a library technology vendor, LibGuides are presently used by 65,000 librarians and subject specialists across more than 5,000 libraries in 78 countries (Springshare, 2016). A key feature of LibGuides is that anyone can create, use, and learn from them (Giustini, 2016); as a collaborative venture, these guides not only enrich one’s knowledge, they also connect with information creators and seekers worldwide. Further, information produced and available on LibGuides is often material that may not be seen anywhere else; this unique content thus supplements any research pursuit.
Libraries use LibGuides to create curricula on a specific subject for a course, promote library collections, and share information within one’s faculty, either locally, nationally, or internationally. As an information portal, content within LibGuides can be seen as a living document, constantly being updated, changed, or enriched. Via the use of a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content creation approach, users can select templates, copy from existing LibGuides or start from a blank page (Giustini, 2016). Due to its flexibility and adaptability, virtually any LibGuide available on the web can function as a template for a new or existing subject guide. Various pages are linked together via the creation of tabs, functioning in much the same way as the tabs present in an Internet browser. Further, due to the web 2.0 nature of LibGuides, users are able to integrate multimedia content, such as embedding YouTube videos, Twitter feeds, or Chat widgets directly into their pages (Hamilton, 2010). As a collaborative tool, LibGuides can be set up to allow co-owners, even multiple users, to edit content within a guide.
One cannot stress enough that grey literature is a vital source of unique information, often far more current than commercially published material, and circulating at a much faster pace than conventional academic journals. Further, due to its almost unrestricted character, grey literature helps to prevent bias, opening doors to new and emerging research. We believe that LibGuides are a type of grey literature and have a valid place among grey literature supporters, believers, and researchers. In our view, LibGuides should be considered for inclusion into the grey literature typology (GreyNet, 2016), as they are published online, easily accessible, provide up-to-date information, promote self-learning, and contain information that is often overlooked and neglected.
In our paper, we aim to investigate grey literature LibGuides within university and college communities across Canada, documenting categories of areas and disciplines, showcasing how grey literature LibGuides play a pivotal role in research pursuits at academic institutions.Includes: Conference preprint, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
The recent improvements on circulation of research results at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency
No full textThe sharing of information about scientific research results on the Internet has developed with the current global advancement of open science, including archiving and disseminating scientific papers in institutional repositories, facilitating access to and use of research data etc. Accessibility to such large volumes of information on the Internet is a very important issue. Without solving the accessibility issue, those contents may remain grey literature. This paper introduces the case study of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) Library as an example of its efforts to improve the circulation of research results in terms of grey literature. JAEA has disseminated information of our research results via the Internet for over decade, but three main issues remain to be solved, aimed at improving the accessibility of grey literature in the open science era; (1) to ensure accessibility of our Internet contents, (2) to consider how our target users find our contents, (3) to improve the user interface of our contents. Finally, we consider enriching the contents of the JAEA Reports and accelerating the circulation of the JAEA R&D results by paying attention to the global trend of open science.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Collecting, organizing, and preserving diverse publication sources for the good of one community archive: Ethical and legal challenges and recommendations
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A Geographical Visualization of GL Community: a Snapshot
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'Grey crossroads' in cultural heritage preservation and resource management.
No full textAmong the assets that make up the cultural heritage of a country, a special place is assigned to the internal documents produced by organs and entities belonging to the Public Administration. In the public sector, for example, the minutes of meetings of the Boards of Directors are considered historical documents and as such are preserved in the for a long time. Actually from them it is possible to gain insight about the genesis of important decisions which affected the lives of many people. In some countries there is a legal obligation to deposit those documents in long term digital preservation systems, which adhere to ad hoc defined standards. In our opinion, many of those documents can be reckoned as grey literature assets and, beyond “plain and simple” preservation, some additional measures may be deployed in order to extract information and insights from them. In this paper we illustrate a process to collect those assets, cleanse and enrich their metadata and then store them in ad hoc defined data marts, upon which Business Intelligence tools can be used for data navigation and analysis. We finally show some examples of insights that may be acquired from such analysis.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Policy Development for Grey Literature Resources. An Assessment of the Pisa Declaration
No full textIn the spring of 2014, a workshop took place at the Italian National Council of Research in Pisa. The topic of this event dealt with policy development for grey literature resources. Some seventy participants from nine countries took an active part in the workshop – the outcome of which produced what is today known as the Pisa Declaration. This fifteen point document arising from the input of those who attended the workshop sought to provide a roadmap that would help to serve diverse communities involved in research, publication and the management of grey literature both in electronic and print formats.
The Pisa Declaration has been translated and published in some twenty languages. They are all accessible online via the GreyGuide Repository and Portal. Currently, 140 information professionals from renowned organizations worldwide have endorsed this document.
In an effort to assess the impact that the Pisa Declaration has had during the last two years on the policy development for grey literature resources, an online survey among those who endorsed the document was carried out and their responses were analysed. Descriptive statistics and short summaries are used to describe the basic features of the data collected. They are combined with simple graphics that offer easier visual representation of the results achieved.
Specific results of the survey analysis indicate those points in the Pisa Declaration that in varying degrees are of relevance and importance to grey literature, as well as points that need further attention and work. Although integral part of library and information management practice grey literature has its own peculiarities and needs that require special attention in order to reach its deserved level of importance in today’s research and other activitiesIncludes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Bridging the Knowledge Gaps: What Grey Literature does for the Library of Congress’ Indigenous Law Portal
No full textEnglish: In 2014, the Library of Congress launched the Indigenous Law Portal, an open-access platform with digital resources about how indigenous peoples of the Americas govern themselves. A new classification schedule is being written, Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas (Class KIA-KIX), organizing resources by country and region, legal area, and tribal entity. The classification guides the structure of the online Portal, which includes Canada, the United States, and Mexico to date. The paper will cover the creation of the Portal, the current resources, and the ongoing research on indigenous groups of Central America. Grey literature has been vital to the creation of the name authority records, the classification schedule, and the Portal, whose open access resources serve a diverse global public.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Managing Diversity in the International Nuclear Information System
No full textAlthough diversity is defined as the state of having many different forms, types, ideas or properties, most often it is associated with cultural diversity or different ethnic backgrounds. Biology, religion, and political science researchers have their own view of diversity, such as biodiversity (i.e. variety of life on earth); religious pluralism (i.e. multiconfessionalism, multi-faith), or various shades of democracy (i.e. freedom of opinion or expression). Diversity is also applicable to information management, usually through the diversity of information resource formats and the variety of information users (i.e. customers or clientèle).
This paper adopts a holistic approach to information management, in particular to the management of scientific and technical information (STI), as carried out by an international repository, and attempts to identify various intrinsic and extrinsic properties which include elements of apparent diversity. In addition to the above mentioned diverse information formats and the variety of information users, intended and actual, this paper also examines the diversity of subject content, temporal distribution, geographic coverage, variety of distribution channels, search paths, and composition of the staff directly involved with the running and management of an information repository.
The data used in this research comes from the International Nuclear Information System (INIS), which has collected, processed and provided access to more than 4 million bibliographic references of publications, documents, technical reports, non-copyrighted materials, and other grey literature, as well as over a million full-texts. The INIS repository represents one of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. The history of INIS throughout the last 47 years represents a wealth of information on the successful management of diversity, starting with 154 member states and international organization who share and allow access to their valuable nuclear information resources while preserving them for future generations, offering nuclear information repository used annually by millions of scientists, researchers, engineers, technicians, students, managers, and government employees.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Etude rétrospective sur l'utilisation de l'IRAP par voie intralésionelle dans le traitement des tendinopathies chez le cheval
No full textLa cicatrisation suite à une tendinopathie ou une desmopathie est un paramètre déterminant pour la carrière d un cheval. Afin d améliorer la rapidité de celle-ci et la fonctionnalité du tissu cicatriciel, de nouvelles thérapies sont actuellement testées. Ainsi, un échantillon, réunissant des chevaux de course comme de selle qui présentaient des lésions de localisation et d ancienneté diverses, ont pu être traités par injection intra lésionnelle d IRAP puis suivis au CISCO.NANTES-Ecole Nat.Vétérinaire (441092302) / SudocTOULOUSE-EN Vétérinaire (315552301) / SudocSudocFranceF