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          Grey Milestones in 2009 and Sustained Deliverables in 2010


"A Year-end review of Grey Literature and GreyNet's commitment to research,
publication, open access, and education in this field of information"

Beginning the Winter of 2009,

* In January, GreyNet was once again asked by the University of New Orleans
to provide a distance education course on grey literature for 3 hours
credit. Twenty-three senior undergraduate students enrolled - ten more than
the first semester in which the course was offered;

* After a year of negotiations, GreyNet reached an agreement with Emerald to
license the rights, whereby the full-text papers from the first four
conferences in the International Conference Series on Grey Literature
(1993-1999) would become accessible in the OpenSIGLE Repository. This
agreement guarantees that research results from the international GreyNet
Community would be both comprehensive and available on an open access
platform;

* An agreement was signed with Elsevier in which articles from The Grey
Journal, an International Journal on Grey Literature would be abstracted and
indexed in Scopus. TGJ entered its first lustrum (2005-2009);

* The GL10 Conference Proceedings were published and the GL11 Conference
Announcement and Call-for-Papers distributed.

In the Spring of 2009, 

* A Letter of Understanding was signed with the National Technical Library
in Prague. NTK agreed to host the Twelfth International Conference on Grey
Literature on December 6-7, 2010;

* A publishing agreement was signed with K.G. Saur Verlag in Munich for the
publication of a monograph on grey literature. This agreement guarantees
that the rights of the 20 contributing authors will remain with their own
work. This monograph will be targeted to students and faculty at colleges
and schools of library and information science as well as information
professionals worldwide;

* Spring also witnessed the GL11 Program Committee Meeting chaired by
FLICC/FEDLINK as well as a U.S. Workshop on Grey Literature in the Library
of Congress in which 30 participants from various national libraries and
federal agencies attended;

* The first retrospective metadata records and corresponding full-text
papers were added to the OpenSIGLE Repository. These retro-records
originated in the Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature held in
Washington D.C. in 1999;

* The first 'guest edited' issue of The Grey Journal by Deni Seymour on
Archaeology and Grey Literature reemphasized the thematic approach to the
International Journal on Grey Literature and a subject-related approach to
this field of information studies.


In the Summer of 2009, 

* GreyWorks, a workshop on grey literature focusing on the supply and demand
sides of grey literature was held in Amsterdam;

* Wiki's on the Grey Literature Network Service and other grey literature
initiatives were launched under the guidance of Dr. Joachim Schopfel from
the University of Lille, France.

In the Autumn of 2009, 

* A site visit was paid to the newly constructed National Technical Library
in Prague, where NTK will host GL12. This was preceded by a National Seminar
on Grey Literature in Brno, Czech Republic;

* When autumn turned to fall, a newly established OpenSIGLE Consortium
submitted an FP7 Proposal to the European Commission with the goal of
creating a pan-European e-infrastructure that would better serve the
OpenSIGLE Repository and further the advancement of open access to digital
grey literature collections and resources;

* GreyNet signed a Partnership Agreement with ICSTI, International Council
for Scientific and Technical Information. This newly established partnership
lends to GreyNet a multilateral base, elevating it from a bilateral one that
it already shares with a number of ICSTI Members. GreyNet seeks to provide
ICSTI with an opportunity to further broaden its information activities to
the social sciences and humanities;

* Grey Literature became a published chapter in ELIS, the prestigious
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences;

* The GreyNet Award 2009 for outstanding achievement in the field of grey
literature was awarded to Dr. Debbie Rabina from Pratt Institute's School of
Information and Library Science. The area of her research dealt with
"Copyright licenses and legal deposit practices of grey multimedia
materials";

* The relaunch of a U.S. Working Group on Grey Literature represented by the
sectors of government, academics, business and industry;

* And, the commencement of the Eleventh International Conference on Grey
Literature hosted by FLICC/FEDLINK in the Library of Congress on 14-15
December in which 70 organizations from some 12 countries worldwide
participated.

Yes, 2009 was a leap-year for the grey literature community as well as for
the international Grey Literature Network Service. On the eve of this new
year, GreyNet extends to the numerous and varied stakeholders on the
information landscape a Happy and Prosperous 2010.

PS, For further information on one or more of the above, visit GreyNet's
website or email us.


Dr. Dominic Farace, Director

GreyNet
Grey Literature Network Service
Javastraat 194-HS
1095 CP Amsterdam
Netherlands

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