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Ubiquity of Grey Literature in a Connected Content Context
Julia Gelfand
University of California, Irvine
Paper presented at GL5 Conference
Amsterdam
4 December 2003
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Ubiquity & Grey Literature (GL):What’s the relationship?
• Scholarly & scientific publishing challenged
• New opportunities for technology
• New demands by consumers
• Rise in information literacy
• More GL everywhere
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Meaning of Ubiquity?
• “exiting everywhere”
• “inescapable”
• “where technology becomes virtually invisible in our lives”
• can incorporate multimedia
• entertains privacy & security issues differently
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What about GL?
• Challenging to identify, acquire, search, process & archive
• Creating models of inquiry• Supports information literacy• Utilized in distance education• Can be often revised • Always about content building• Difficult to evaluate
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Traditional Means of Evaluation
• Audience• Authority• Purpose• Objectivity• Currency• Coverage• Accuracy• Relevancy
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New Criteria to Evaluate
• Usability
• Aesthetic Value
• Comprehensiveness
• Connectivity
• Dependability
• Links to related or opposing content
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May Also Include Such Values:
• Aesthetic
• Historical
• Mathematical
• Health
• Moral/Religious
• Scientific
• Social
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And…
• Economic
• Philosophical
• Physical
• Mechanical
• Cultural
• Geographical
• Personal attributes.
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Common Elements
• Interdisciplinary
• Collaboratively designed & prepared
• Promotes critical thinking
• Encourages multimedia
• Anticipates diverse users
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Contextualizing New Products
• Builds on proposal
• Graphics intensive
• Promotes debate & critique
• Participative & interactive
• Combines best of journalism with rich content
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Standard Sources of GL
• Online journals
• Preprint archives
• Major bibliographic resources
• Professional society sites
• University department sites
• Library sites
• Data archives
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And...
• Personal web pages
• Government agency sites
• Industry sites
• Non-profits
• Venture capitalists and development sources
• Observatories
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And...
• Competitive intelligence
• Image catalogues & archives
• Etc.
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Innovation, New Knowledge & GL
• New Business Models
• Creativity
• Communications & wireless technologies in great abundance
• More connectivity
• Emphasis on networking
• New & more open organizational cultures
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Transformation of Content
• More context aware
• Challenges of sustainability & rate of growth
• Interesting applications relevant to daily life
• May have a beginning, transition, end
• Relationship intensive - lateral & deeper
• Not always well defined
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Other Qualities
• Portability
• Increasingly heavily cited
• Has learning/educational mission
• Used by different forms of computing
• Transcends concrete to abstract
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Current & New Realities
• Public Library of Science (http://www.plos.org)
• BioMedCentral family of journals (http://www.biomedcentral.com
• DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/)
• University of California eScholarship Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/)
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Conclusions
• Ubiquity and GL have lots in common• Strong future for GL• More will be grey - but what shades are uncertain• Increasing collaboration is predicted• New financial/economic markets & models• Digital libraries & repositories still in growth
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