1. Grey Literature in Scholarly Communication Current Thinking from Libraries and Publishers James Neal and Kate Wittenberg

2. A Library perspective James Neal

3. What is Scholarly Communication? Creation of Knowledge and evaluation of its Validity Preservation of Information Transmission of Information to Others -Technologies -Economics -Institutions

4. What is Grey Literature? “…that which is produced on all levels of Government, academics, business, and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers” (1997) Key Characteristics: issuing organization document types value/costs nature of presentation level of peer review

5. What are Key Developments? Author Revolution ATM Revolution New Majority Student Revolution Digital Preservation Revolution Open Revolution Google Revolution

6. What is the Urge to Publish? Communication Academic Culture Preservation of Ideas Prestige and Recognition Profit

7. What are Key Characteristics of Electronic Scholarly Communication? (per Cronin) New Economics Vertical Integration New Modes of Discourse Democratization Discipline Diversity Importance of Trust

8. Key Characteristics (continued) Importance of Credibility Velocity of Communication Expanded Readership Pluralism Plasticity Adaptivity

9. What are Quality Assessment Systems? Peer Review Peer Review Lite Citation Measurement Open/Community Peer Review Career Review Industry Review

10. What is the Repository Movement? Discipline Repositories Institutional Repositories Consortium Repositories Departmental/School Repositories Individual Repositories Referatories/Virtual Repositories

11. What are Core Library Roles? Information Acquisition Information Synthesis Information Navigation Information Dissemination Information Interpretation Information Understanding Information Archiving

12. A Publisher Perspective Kate Wittenberg

13. E-Publishing and Grey Literature Scholars’ thinking at its earliest stage Timely, often requires frequent updating Requires different form of peer review Benefits from addition of discipline- appropriate tools and functionality With these tools, can be useful in teaching as well as research Often not easily available to scholars, students, or libraries

14. Case Study: Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) Collaboration involving university press and libraries Aggregates grey literature (working papers, policy briefs, country data) in a sub-discipline Imbeds grey lit within an infrastructure that adds value to the scholarly content (mapping and atlas function, teaching case studies and course packs)

15. Grey Lit Suggests New Priorities Re-think the categories of traditional print publications (books, journals, grey literature, curriculum materials) Develop content in response to scholars’ research, teaching, and publishing needs Publishers as research centers that create new models and actually lead innovation in a field Authors as collaborators in the creating new kinds of publications within their discipline

16. Elements Needed for New E- Publishing Models to Emerge Interest and initiative from faculty, librarians/publishers Some form of peer review Copyright/permissions management Web development/design Access management/security/preservation Outreach/marketing/dissemination Sustainability plan (staffing, infrastructure)