Sponsor Benefits include: (1.) Your logo placed on the GL10 website and linked back to your own website (2.) Sponsor Name and logo on the covers of both the GL10 Program Book and Conference Proceedings (3.) A full-page advert in both of the above publications (4.) A full-page advert in TGJ, The Grey Journal (5.) Sponsor inserts in the GL10 conference pouches (6.) GL10 Conference Passes and Stand space (7.) A Time slot for a Poster Presentation (8.) Invitations to GreyNet's Award Dinner
GL10 Conference Sponsors
City of Amsterdam will Co-Sponsor GL10
Amsterdam City Council has agreed to co-sponsor the Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature. The City of Amsterdam is one of the original sponsors in the GL-Series. At the First International Conference In 1993, the City hosted the Inaugural Reception in the Amsterdam RAI. In 2003 at the Fifth International Conference, Amsterdam hosted the Inaugural Reception in its City Hall. And, this year, Amsterdam will co-host the GL10 Inaugural Reception during an evening cruise onboard a canal boat. The conference participants and delegates will receive in their conference pouch a special invitation from the Amsterdam City Council.
Information International Associates, Inc.
GL10 has secured the sponsorship of Information International Associates, Inc. IIa is a woman-owned, small business headquartered in Oak Ridge,Tennessee with 20 years of experience providing innovation solutions to the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies. IIa has a world-class reputation inscientific and technical information services, national and international information policy and standards development, librarianship, and intelligence work. The company provides a full range of information management, systems, and technology services for both classified and unclassified environments. IIa's services include advanced information science in the fields of knowledge management, electronic records, website design, information analysis and retrieval, as well as metadata structures. IIa has proven experience in R&D strategic planning and technology roadmapping with 200 staff members working throughout the United States and inthe United Kingdom.
Swets is the newest sponsor in the GL-Conference Series and will have a significant role in the Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature this December in Amsterdam. Swets is the world's leading subscription services company with more than 100 years of experience in maximizing the return on investments in time and money for clients and publishers in today's complex information marketplace. With clients in over 160 countries, Swets has more than twenty offices around the world. Swets provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field. For the past two years, Swets has been included in E-Content Magazine's '100 companies that matter most in the Digital Content Industry'. And in 2006, Swets appeared as number 95 in FEM Business - Top 500 Companies in The Netherlands'. Further, Swets is the only subscription services company to be awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification on a global basis, a testament to its impeccable operation and client service procedures.
The British Library In December 1978, the British Library hosted the York Seminar. This event led to the establishment of EAGLE, the European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation and its SIGLE-database. Through the years, The British Library contributed 40% of SIGLE’s more than 800,000 records. This year, 30 years on, it will not go unnoticed that The British Library is represented on the GL10 Program Committee and that BL is one of the start sponsors to this international S&T event. Every researcher and practitioner, student and academic knows that a great deal of valuable information is never published in the conventional way. Refined and edited versions may appear after a lengthy delay in journal articles or in books, but in many cases the original report or paper is the only source. These documents are often difficult to identify and acquire through normal bookselling channels and, for this reason, are sometimes referred to as ‘grey literature’.
INIST-CNRS
For the Sixth year running, the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) a subsidiary of CNRS, the National Centre for Scientific Research in France sponsors the GL Conference Series. INIST houses a huge library with extensive collections available to the public through document delivery services. Indexing services are also provided for (grey) literature in Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities, and the Social Sciences. These services are designed to contribute to bibliographic databases. INIST's Information services are available online, as well as in a variety of electronic formats and media. A recent development is their memSIC, Open Archive on Theses in Information Science. It is an honor to have this national institute in the forefront of grey literature.
EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO sponsors the GL-Conference Series four years running! EBSCO is the world's most prolific aggregator of full text journals including The Grey Journal. In 2005, TextRelease entered into an electronic licensing relationship with EBSCO Publishing. The full text of articles in The Grey Journal (TGJ) can be found in Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) full text database. EBSCO is a worldwide leader in providing information access and management solutions through print and electronic journal subscription services, research database development and production, as well as online access to more than 100 databases and thousands of e-journals, and e-commerce book procurement. EBSCO has served the library and business communities for more than 60 years.
"Recipient of the Louise Darling Medal 2008 for distinguished achievement in collection development in the health sciences"
The New York Academy of Medicine, an Associate Member of GreyNet, has signed-on as sponsor of GL10. This marks the fifth year straight that NYAM sponsors the International Conference Series on Grey Literature. NYAM is one of the foremost-recognized organizations in the field of grey literature. The Academy Library seeks new ways to offer and enhance access to quality health information. Today, NYAM looks to initiate and support new technologies and services that improve the access to health for its wide audience of researchers, students, Academy Fellows, and the general public. The Grey Literature Report, a bimonthly web-based publication along with the detailed guide to organizations and agencies producing grey literature in the fields of Health Policy and Public Health are but two examples.
Recent Sponsors in the GL-Conference Series
GL9 Host
Flemish Government; Department of Economy, Science and Innovation is Host to the Ninth International Conference on Grey Literature titled “Grey Foundations in Information Landscape”. GL9 will be held on 10-11 December 2007 in the prestigious Council Hall “Raadzaal” in the House of the Province situated in the heart of Antwerp, Belgium. http://www.ewi-vlaanderen.be/
OPOCE, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities - the publishing house of the European Union - has signed on as exhibitor/sponsor to the Ninth International Conference on Grey Literature entitled "Grey Foundations in Information Landscape". OPOCE is recognized for its publications both in electronic and print formats. CORDIS, Community Research and Development Information Service and the EU Bookshop are prime examples of networked services in support of the production, processing, and distribution of grey literature. The EU Bookshop is an online service giving access to publications from the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies in multiple languages. In addition to web-based ordering facilities, the service offers a vast online catalogue of publications published and/or catalogued by the Publications Office. The CORDIS library provides, among other things, references, bibliographic details and abstracts of publications resulting from R&D programmes such as scientific and technical studies, proceedings of conferences and workshops. It also contains Project Summaries and Project Reports. CORDIS assists and encourages transfer of technology and knowledge across national borders. EU Bookshop and CORDIS are free of charge and managed by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities located in Luxembourg. http://publications.europa.eu
The International Conference Series on Grey Literature is honoured to welcome GESIS as a GL9 Sponsor and Special Envoy for Central and Eastern Europe. GESIS stands for German Social Science Infrastructure Services and was established in 1986. GESIS maintains centres and services in Bonn, Cologne, Mannheim, and Berlin. The GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe supports East-West cooperation in social sciences and contributes to the networking activities in the European research area. Among its services, the agency offers consultancy on access to grey literature from Eastern Europe as well as search services. The Social Science Information Center manages the SOLIS databank, which contains more than 300.000 citations – including some 50.000 abstracts to grey literature in the social sciences from German speaking countries i.e. Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
