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Open Access to full text and ETDs in Europe: Improving accessibility through the choice of language?
No full textTendencies concerning electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in Europe as observed during explorations of institutional and other repositories, with specific regard to the full text
GreyNet Enhanced Publications Project
No full textGrey Literature is a field in Library and Information science that deals with the production, distribution, and access to multiple document types produced on all levels of government, academics, business, and organization in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body. The goal of the Grey Literature Network Service is to facilitate dialog, research, and communication between persons and organisations in the field of grey literature.
In 2011 Grey Literature Network Service presented a project on Enhanced Publications- EPP. Data and publications from this project are accessible via the DANS online archiving system EASY and the Open Grey Repository.
Partners
DANS-KNAW (Netherlands); ISTI-CNR (Italy); NIS-IAEA (Austria); Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (CVTISR); EBSCO Publishing (USA); FEDLINK, Library of Congress (USA); Inist-CNRS (France); New York Academy of Medicine (USA); National Library of Technology (Czech Republic); Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI)
Innovation, Language, and the Web
No full textLanguage and innovation are inseparable. Language conveys ideas which are essential in innovation, establishes the most immediate connections with our conceptualisation of the outside world, and provides the building blocks for communication. Every linguistic choice is necessarily meaningful, and it involves the parallel construction of form and meaning. From this perspective, language is a dynamic knowledge construction process. Emphasis is laid on investigating how words are used to describe innovation, and how innovation topics can influence word usage and collocational behaviour. The lexical representation of innovative knowledge in a context-based approach is closely related to the representation of knowledge itself, and gives the opportunity to reduce the gap between knowledge representation and knowledge understanding.
This will bring into focus the dynamic interplay between lexical creativity and innovative pragmatic contexts, and the necessity for a dynamic semantic shift from context-driven vagueness to domain-driven specialisation.
Methodology and experimental evidence - Method and materials: the challenge of identifying changes in word sense has only recently been considered in Computational Linguistics. To investigate the themes discussed in the previous sections genre-oriented and stylistically heterogeneous English texts are analysed, with the support of SKETCH ENGINE (Kilgarriff et al., 2004), which is a corpus query tool, based on a distributed infrastructure, that generates word sketches and thesauri which specify similarities and differences between near-synonyms. By selecting a collocate of interest in a sketched word, the user is taken to a concordance of the corpus evidence giving rise to that collocate. Ambiguous and polysemous words have been selected with particular reference to innovative domains, and their collocations are analysed. In particular, we considered the domain of brain sciences and new technologies of brain functional imaging, the domain of knowledge management processes, and the field of information technologies, by mainly focusing on the following test words: IMAGING, RETENTION, STORAGE, CORPUS, NETWORK, GRID. The selected words present a potentially high degree of semantic ambiguity or polysemy and different degrees of semantic specialisation, which can be analysed objectively by studying their context collocations. For a terminology exploration, both domain-specific and general-purpose texts materials are selected by using generic search web engine queries (www.google.com by using seed words), domain-specific databases and type coherent multidisciplinary large corpora (e.g. www.opengrey.eu, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed by selecting the domain). Collocations and concordances are then compared with large balanced corpora (e.g. the British National Corpus, British Academic Written English, New Model Corpus, and the like, whose size ranges between 8 M and 12 G tokens)
Grey literature partnership network in the Czech Republic
No full textAfter the dissolution of initial partnership network, involved into the international SIGLE cooperation, at the beginning of 2005, new and broader partnership network was founded at the end of 2009. In November 2012, there are 91 data producers from the fields of research and science, education, culture and also enterprise, namely research institutes, universities, libraries etc. Partnership network has been built to support National Repository of Grey Literature (NRGL)
Data Analytics: The Next Big Thing in Information
No full textInformation is now available in an overabundance, so much so, that distinguishing the noise from the signal has become very problematic. In the past, the collection and storage of information was the primary issue. Currently, there are massive amounts of data both structured and unstructured, that need to be analyzed in an iterative, as well as in a time sensitive manner. In response to this need, data analytical tools/services have emerged as a means to solve this problem.
Grey literature repositories, libraries, and information centers are well positioned to take advantage of these new tools and services. The current trend is to make grey literature more easily discoverable, accessible, and with the new data analytical tools and services, more easily analyzed.
The intent of our survey of the Grey Literature community was to provide a snapshot of the Community's use, planned use, and knowledge of data analytical tools and services for big data as it affects grey literature. The survey summary that follows indicates where the Community currently stands in regards to the use of data analytical tools and services.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
An Analysis of Current Grey Literature Document Typology
No full textThis analysis is based on the classification of the systems GreyNet, OpenSIGLE, Czech ASEP, RIV and others. During the analysis of the lists of document types, we have discovered that these typologies contain, besides "real" document types (reports, theses, etc.) other aspects, such as events (arrangement, organization), types of events (conferences, speeches), producers (universities, institutes), processes (translations, output), content (political documents, legal texts), location (domestic, foreign), and format (e-texts, numeric data). However, this approach is not systematic. Therefore, we have decided to create a classification scheme for document types only, and classify other aspects into various groups in order to define them more precisely. The scheme will be processed in a text version as well as schematically in mind maps. We believe that identifying a specific typology for credible grey literature document types, particularly reports, conference proceedings, and government documents, will assist in the classification of grey literature in the fields of science, research, and education. On the other hand, grey literature also consists of various means of communication, such as telephone calls, meetings, e-mails, blogs, interviews, social networking tools, or discussions in Wiki. It is important to identify only credible document types and not use unverified information that may be unsuitable for scientific work. The aim of this analysis is therefore to create, define, and implement a current credible grey literature document typology, in order to open discussions in the grey literature community, leading to a means of collecting GL from reputable events and producers rather than relying on social networking tools or Wiki contributions. While the later types of sources can assist researchers, scientists, and teachers with their information-seeking pursuits, document of this nature needs to be evaluated on a regular basis
The author/respondent relationship with grey literature : a study in unperformed informal communication
No full textThe author/respondant relationship with grey literature: a study in unperformed informal communication Grey literature is generally supposed to be a medium for informal scientific communication. I shall present the results of an empirical survey of the Information Centre for the Social Sciences (Bonn, F.R.G.) with 1,600 Social Scienctists showing a rather strange and contradictory situation: Although there are strong efforts towards the dissemination of grey literature, there is only very little feed back by the receivers of the papers no matter whether they are personally known to the author or not. The strangest result, however, is that the authors hardly make any use of this feed back, of critical remarks or suggestions, although they make strong efforts towards reworking their papers for subsequent formal publications. They change each and everything - text, data/tables, appendices etc. -, but communication does not seem to have any remarkable influence. So, what is the production and dissemination of GL for? What are the reasons and expectations of authors disseminating their papers (and ignoring the rare responses)? And, what are the normative orientations of the receivers responding or - usually - not responding to the literature? Are there perhaps orientations completely different from those that are suggested by our theories? A convincing answer, I presume, cannot been given as long as we conceptualize the whole connexion as a system only dedicated to one cognitve goal, i.e. informal communication. Instead, we have to admit that there is a complex, multi-functional system consisting of cognitive as well as of social functions, tasks, normative orientations etc.Includes: Conference preprint, Pratt student commentaryXAInternationa
Grey communities: An empirical study on databases and repositories
No full textThe study explores grey communities outside the Grey Literature Network Service (GreyNet) and identifies potential members for GreyNet. GreyNet can be compared to a Learned Society specialised in grey literature as a particular field of library and information sciences (LIS). Its relevance is related to its capacity to enforce the terminology and definition of grey literature in LIS research and publications, and its impact and outreach can be assessed through the proportion of experts dealing with grey literature and connected with GreyNet. From five databases (Web of Science, Scopus, LISTA, Pascal and Francis) and from open repositories we selected 2,440 papers on grey literature published between 2000 and 2012 by 5,490 authors. Publishing features, preferred journals and the number of publications per author are described for the whole sample. For a subsample of 433 authors strongly committed to grey literature, we present data on geographic origins, place of work, scientific domain and profession. Researchers discuss the characteristics of grey communities in and outside of GreyNet and suggest strategies for the further development of the network
Grey Literature Between Tradition and Innovation: Is There a Continuum?
No full textThis study wants to explore ways of social media communication for Grey Literature. In particular it describes the role of social media in relation with traditional channels and how social media applications can be used for Grey
A TERMINOLOGY-BASED RE-DFINITION OF GREY LITERATURE
Full text linkThe Luxembourg Convention on Grey Literature held in 1997 offered the following definition of Grey Literature (expanded in New York, 2004): "Information produced and distributed 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". Is this definition still valuable? Is it so far completely satisfactory? Or does it rather need important modifications? We suggest that an interesting re-definition of GL can be based upon careful examination of the longitudinal trend of 10 years of terminological creativity in the proceedings of the GL international Conference. Our empirical basis is the Corpus of GreyText Inhouse Archive, available on http://www.greynet.org/opensiglerepository.html consisting of titles, themes, keywords and full abstracts, for a total amount of more than sixty thousand word tokens. In the full version of our paper, we intend to focus on a set of automatically-acquired terms (both single-word and multi-word terms) obtained by subjecting our reference Corpus to a number of pre-processing steps of automated text analysis, such as concordances, frequency lists and lexical association scores (e.g. Mutual Information on word pairs). To anticipate some of our results, the following three terms, that appear to be shared by various disciplinary sub-fields, mark, in our view, important stages in the evolution of our current understanding of GL: digital, access and web. The attribute digital, an increasingly popular synonym of the now obsolete electronic, emphasises the growing importance of computer-based encoding as the standard medium of GL. The noun access (defining the process of accessing text documents) is seen in the company of adjectives like easy, full, grey and open to shape up important conceptual innovations in the way GL material is distributed: e.g. open access focuses on the free accessibility of digital contents. Coupled with information, document and repository (note, however, that repository is generally understood as a technical synonym of open archive), access points to a conception of world-wide available, structured cultural contents. Finally, reference to the web lays emphasis on the huge importance of the World Wide Web as the standard means of disseminating GL. All these aspects are not fully taken into account in the standard definition of GL reported above. Our inquiry is intended to pave the way to a bottom-up re-definition of GL, stemming from the terminological creativity and lexical innovation monitored over ten years of technical work in the field
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