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Publishing Geodesy, Topography and Cartography Research via Invenio
No full textWe would like to present open source system Invenio that helps to really small specialized library to provide high standard services and grey literature open the access for limited budget and minimal staffing. It will describe access to research outputs in branch of geodesy, topography and cartography. The Surveying Library is unique library focused on geographic branch in the Czech Republic and surrounding countries. The Surveying Library keeps more than 44 thousands units/books, some of them more than 400 years old. Although the Czech Republic is a small country the community of geodesy, topography and cartography is not concentrated in one place. There are four research, ten administrative workplaces and seven universities with geographic or geodetic department. In addition the Surveying Library is located in small city Zdiby outside of Prague and can lure more travellers than students or researchers who should be main users of library. The Surveying Library found the way how to take advantage of the time when readers do not use their legs but mainly their fingers on the keyboard to reach documents they are looking for. Information technology, open source software and the common availability of the internet allowed that the library can provide their services remotely and at higher quality standards than before. In the past the information sources were fragmented. Users had to know how to reach library catalogue, the digital library, electronic resources, archives; many documents were hidden only on the webpages especially grey literature (conference proceedings, research reports, etc.). Today all information sources are provided from one common location and are part of one system in institutional digital repository. It is managed through the implementation of open source software Invenio, whose functions will be presented on the example of implementation in our Surveying Library.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Think Tanks, Twitter, and Grey Literature
No full textThis poster aims to track the use of twitter among think tanks and the dissemination of grey literature. Making connections between the future of the online world and knowledge communication to drive change and share resources.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
The recent Italian regulations about the open-access availability of publicly funded research publications, and the documentation landscape in astrophysics
No full textIn October 2013 Italy enacted Law n.112/2013, containing the first national regulations about the open-access availability of publicly-funded research results (publications). The impact of these new regulations with the specific situation of that open-access pioneering discipline which is astrophysics, has been considered. Under a strictly technical point of view, in the light of the new dispositions the open nature of a part of the astrophysical scholarly literature which has been made available online free to the reader during the last twenty years, might be questionable. In astrophysics, most of the journal articles are published by a very small number of scientific societies and organizations. The copyright policies of these major publishing bodies have been collected and analyzed, with regard to the main requirements of the Italian law about open access. Most of these policies are sufficiently liberal for an entirely compliant open access to be provided and scientists would benefit from knowing these details more extensively. Some possible ways to make astrophysicists’ scholarly dissemination entirely compliant with the Italian law requirements are considered.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Mapping Italian Grey Communities: What Is There Beyond The Academy?
No full textThe following title was published on an influential Italian newspaper, La Stampa, on November 7, 2013. “Tra i tesori della ‘Letteratura Grigia’ un’Eneide in napoletano del ‘600”. The article is about the presentation of the “Fondo De Mauro” on the Italian Network of Popular Culture: this fund originates from a private collection built up in several decades and donated to the Network by Tullio De Mauro and his wife Silvana Ferreri in 2011; it is made up of thousands of books, brochures, pamphlets relating to Italian dialects and minority languages.
In the field of healthcare, while browsing on the web, we found the title of a PhD thesis of last year: “Letteratura Grigia nelle meta-analisi delle prove ripartite con scelta casuale degli interventi di sanità”.
In the legal environment, the title of a Seminar at the University of Siena emerges from the web: “La “centralità” della legge e la letteratura grigia. Profili di politica del diritto in Italia tra Otto e Novecento” . From these findings, the idea of a survey on the wide variety of grey material available on Italian web portals arose. A first analysis showed that this material is available in different forms and dissemination is carried out through various means such as thematic bibliographies, newspapers articles, various types of documents published in PDF format or simple descriptions on web sites.
The following are a few examples excerpted from some home pages belonging to our corpus:
- Collection of grey literature. The Historical Archive of Women candidates for becoming the repository where the memories about these themes will be stored…
- Grey literature ... Master copies · Reprints · Unreleased copies · Grey Literature. Archives for the history of Education…
- Grey literature. The high quality brand of parks…
- … International grey literature; national and international legislative data on the topic of drug addiction and related themes; documentary archive ...
- Besides literature in German, there is literature in other languages and grey literature as well – in particular catalogues of museums and exhibitions…
- It is about a few thousand of books, brochures and documents of grey literature concerning two topics, Italian dialects and minority languages…
Given this scenario, the research aims at verifying whether – and eventually how much – the grey literature available on the web is actually structured, accessible or even managed by systems dealing with its organization and aiming at its retrieval and storing. The utmost goal is to build up a map of non-academic communities and their mechanisms for managing, presenting and disseminating this type of material. It is a sort of journey among the streams of the Web which channel meeting minutes, invites, manifests, fliers, pictures, newspapers articles, journalistic services and audio/video material on various topics. These “grey” products – by conveying basic information about social and popular culture – store, represent and spread knowledge.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Is the Licensing of Grey Literature Using the Full Palette of “Contractual” Colors?
No full textThis paper reviews a sample of licenses or terms of use governing the use of grey collections. A license is a form of legal permission. It need not be a contract but often is. Some terms of service reviewed do not even provide permission per se but state a list or rules users should follow. From this analysis a list of best licensing practices or checklist of considerations can be offered. Regardless of the specific character the phrase “terms of use” is used to represent the “agreements” under discussion. The framework for comparison and assessment draws upon that used in similar studies used to evaluate the terms of service for various social media sites (Lipinski and Copeland, 2013; Lipinski, forthcoming). The various terms of use are reviewed in detail and deconstructed in terms of legal essence or effect in order to present a “landscape” or descriptive overview of the legal aspects of grey literature terms of use in current use.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
An attempt to nuance the understanding of professional reports in archaeology
No full textProfessional (i.e. extra-academic) contract archaeology is an internationally widespread practice contributing significantly to the archaeology literature. However, professional knowledge production in archaeology, and most notably the professional report genre, is at times described as problematic. The problem descriptions are ambiguous and can be grouped under at least three different topics: concerns for content quality and practical accessibility, concerns for the comparably low degree of analytical and theoretical synthesizing in reports and concerns for lack of mutual knowledge transfer between academic archaeologists and professional archaeologists. Technical issues of access are to an increasing extent being solved. Format standardizations are also developing. Hence the report genre becomes more accessible, and the content more readable and informative. Yet articulations of attitudes toward the genre in archaeology text books and journal articles remain focused on the genre’s problems. The aim of my ongoing dissertation research is to nuance the understanding of the professional report genre in archaeology. I do so by analyzing factors shaping reporting as it takes place in the intersection between academic norms, professional values and market logics. I argue an improved genre understanding is crucial to diminish cultural issues of access to the report literature, and also as a basis for development of reporting practices. In the dissertation research I analyze (1) perceptions about the report genre in archaeology literature, (2) information policy regulating reporting in archaeology, (3) how report writers and county board professionals interpret the reporting and report auditing work tasks and (4) the frames of reference report writers bring into reporting. The aim of this paper is to explicate the research design consisting of four sub-studies, to briefly report on findings from study no. 4, and to discuss preliminary, partial results from study no. 2.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
The Intersect of Cultural Studies with other Focus Areas in the HDIAC Database
No full textOur bibliometric research will examine a select set of documents in the Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center’s (HDIAC) collection. The focus will be on documents in the “Cultural Studies” focus area. There are over 210,000 documents in the HDIAC collection, and much of it is grey literature. Staff use a template that includes bibliographic information, keywords, task areas, and other descriptive information to catalog items for inclusion in HDIAC’s database. In staff discussions, it was discovered that some focus areas intersect with other focus areas. For example, Cultural Studies overlaps with the Medical, Alternative Energy, Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Homeland Defense and Security focus areas. The purpose of this research is to examine the intersects that Cultural Studies has with the other HDIAC focus areas by examining the keywords and task area terms that include the term “Cultural Studies.” This process will assist in clarifying the subject key words used to identify cultural studies and facilitate the tagging, acquisition, and discovery processes. It will also give staff a model they can use to gain a deeper understanding of how culture intersects with other disciplines. A bibliometric study will be conducted to evaluate the HDIAC database, Scientific and Technical Analysis and Research Tool (START), and quantify the Activity Index (AI) of the HDIAC database.
This bibliometric research will allow HDIAC staff to quantify the multidisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies and provide a vantage point for a qualitative study that examines the intersect with other focus areas in HDIAC.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Marine Planning and Service Platform (MAPS): An Advanced Research Engine for Grey Literature in Marine Science
No full textThe MAPS (Marine Planning and Service Platform) project is a development of the Marine project (Ricerca Industriale e Sviluppo Sperimentale Regione Liguria 2007-2013) aiming at building a computer platform for supporting a Marine Information and Knowledge System, as part of the data management activities. One of the main objective of the project is to develop a repository that should gather, classify and structure marine scientific literature and data thus guaranteeing their accessibility to researchers and institutions by means of standard protocols.
We will present the scenario of the Operative Oceanography together with the technologies used to develop an advanced search engine which aims at providing rapid and efficient access to a Digital Library of oceanographic data. The case-study is also highlighting how the retrieval of grey literature from this specific marine community could be reproduced for similar communities as well, thus revealing the great impact that the processing, re-use as well as application of grey data have on societal needs/problems and their answers.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Free Licences and Creative Commons: A Powerful Tool for Open Access Publishing in Grey Literature
No full textIn today’s increasingly technologically savvy information society, “using remote access and free content to open doors for science students”, a statement made by NANSLO lab director Daniel Branan (http://www.scoop.it/t/avaopeneducation), is yet another example of ongoing efforts to make information more openly and freely available and accessible. Although Branan focused his remarks on the scientific community, this applies to more than one specific subject field. Rather, scientists, teachers, artists, sociologists, programmers, as well as professionals from the arts industry and economics are increasingly becoming involved in sharing and reusing their work. Open content provides an opportunity to shorten the time for research to become available, not repeat research already conducted, have data to compare, collect background information for a project, and numerous other possibilities. Despite the well-intentioned mandate of a Creative Commons license, the free distribution of an author’s work is still “governed by applicable copyright law.” (Wikipedia, n.d.) Jack Andraka, an advocate for the Open Access Movement, laments the disappointment that can occur due to publication and distribution restrictions: “I’ve seen so many great ideas get killed in the lab when my peers are stopped by closed access [to research articles]” (http://teamopen.cc/jack). Open licensing is a strong instrument ensuring open access to research data.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Open data, grey literature and disciplinary differences – Perspectives from a Dutch data archive
No full textSince 2005 Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) promotes sustained access to digital research data. DANS offers several services to support this, including the online archiving system EASY, the Dutch Dataverse Network and the portal NARCIS. In this paper these services will be presented, including the differences we encounter between the disciplines using these services. Within the disciplines served by DANS – mostly belonging to the Social Sciences and Humanities – differences can be discerned regarding the ‘openness’ of the data. As case study the archeology datasets in EASY will be discussed. Many of them contain reports of archeological excavations done in the Netherlands. Should we consider these as research data or grey literature? And, should we open up the access to these datasets? And if not, why not? These, and other questions, will be addressed, providing a view on how DANS currently deals with open data, grey literature and disciplinary differences.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa