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International Conference Series on Grey Literature 1992-2022
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GREYNET CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF RESEARCH SUPPORT

               
AMSTERDAM, 3 January 2017 – GreyNet, an international grey literature network service, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year of providing research and reference support in the fields of academia, government, business and industry.

                Based in Amsterdam, the company was founded in 1992 as an independent program and conference bureau specializing in the field of grey literature, which includes papers, abstracts, government reports, PowerPoint presentations, biographical notes, and a host of other document types in electronic and print formats not contained in traditional journal publishing.

                “Over the past 25 years, GreyNet has provided a valuable vehicle for a worldwide network
of literature produced by various government agencies, universities and other organizations,” said Dr. Dominic Farace, founder and director. “GreyNet is fulfilling its mission to  research and education, publication and public access to information and data important for libraries, research communities, and net citizens.”

                In addition to providing workshops and referral services, GreyNet organizes an annual international conference on grey literature held in various locations hosted by leading organizations in the United States, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. GreyNet follows each conference with a publication of the complete proceedings as well as “The Grey Journal” now in its 13th volume. GreyNet likewise publishes a quarterly newsletter as a means of keeping its members and the general public informed of developments linked to its information resources and research output.

                “While primarily serving institutions in Europe, North America, and a number of countries in the Asia Pacific , representatives from recognized organizations worldwide have over the past 25 years been involved in significant ways” Farace said.

                GreyNet currently includes 11 organizational members, affiliate contacts in 40 nations, over 350 contributing researches and authors, and 280 organizational contacts worldwide. GreyNet’s newsletter currently boasts one thousand recipients.

                “The past 25 years have seen significant growth in GreyNet, but there exists additional roles in training and education as well as opportunities for greater cooperation with the open access community,” Farace said. “Likewise, there are untapped possibilities for real cooperation with commercial publishers and licensing agents as well as greater use of available social media for public awareness to the wealth of knowledge produced by scientific and technical communities alongside that of commercial publishing.”

                 For additional information on the GreyNet International and its information products and services, visit www.greynet.org  or contact Farace via info@greynet.org.

International Grey Literature Community responds to IPCC line of fire

Transparency in grey literature amid an onslaught of misconceptions and unknowns

AMSTERDAM, 20100223 -- At the onset of twenty-ten, Grey Literature emerged into the public arena after more than a quarter century in the corridors of libraries and in workplaces and meeting rooms of information practitioners and professionals. Grey Literature is now a topic of news in the world media. Coverage in magazines and newspapers e.g. Nature, New Scientist, The Economist, the Guardian, etc. carrying articles on the IPCC use/misuse of grey literature is current and in-depth.

For those following these news threads, much of the publicity is less than complimentary. And, the grey literature community has not been hesitant in its response via blogs, listservs, distribution lists, etc. During the coming months leading up to the Twelfth International Conference on Grey Literature (GL12), the grey literature community will have the opportunity to bundle its efforts in order to address issues that stand at the core of grey literature and which have come under fire in the public media.

One thing is certain, now that grey literature has entered the mainstream press, it will not simply disappear. It is now up to the corporate authors and publishers of grey literature as well as those organizations processing and distributing it both in print and electronic formats to address the misconceptions and unknowns about this field of information science. The Twelfth International Conference on Grey Literature will provide a global forum for stakeholders in government, academics, business and industry to come together on issues formulated in the GL12 Call-for-Papers.

This year's proposed themes accentuate the transparency in grey literature and the almost seamless processes of research, authorship, publication, indexing, as well as, the uses and applications to which it is exposed in knowledge based communities. Many of these processes are the same faced by commercial publishing, where only the differences lie in grey tech approaches to high tech issues.

Press Release
Amsterdam, 25 June 2007

TextRelease reviews Cooperative Publishing Agreement

Publishing Research Quarterly (PRQ) has recently been acquired by Springer. This journal was formerly owned by Transaction Periodicals Consortium and TextRelease had a Cooperative Publishing Agreement with them. The agreement ensured that a selection of papers originating in the International Conference Series on Grey Literature would annually appear in the spring issue of that journal. Over the past four years (2004-2007), almost a quarter of the content of PRQ originated in the GL-Conference Series.

With the change in ownership of PRQ, TextRelease is reviewing the Cooperative Publishing Agreement and has chosen to renegotiate with a journal publisher that would be willing to act as a sponsor to the GL-Conference Series. Dominic Farace, Director TextRelease, contends that “A new Cooperative Publishing Agreement should be with a publishing house, which maintains a visible presence in the international grey literature community.”

More about TextRelease

TextRelease is an independent conference and information service based in Amsterdam. TextRelease was founded in 2003 and specializes in the field of grey literature defined as “information produced 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”.

TextRelease’s main activities include:
  • The International Conference Series on Grey Literature (1993-2007)
  • GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service (1992-2007)
  • The Grey Journal, An International Journal on Grey Literature (2005-2007)
  • R&D Projects in the field of grey literature (2003-2007)
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