Twelfth International Conference on Grey Literature

Transparency in Grey Literature, Grey Tech Approaches to High Tech Issues

National Technical Library, Prague, Czech Republic, 6-7 December 2010

GL12 Announcement, http://www.textrelease.com/gl12conference.html

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. The grey literature community has not
been hesitant in its response via blogs, listservs, distribution lists, etc.
During the coming months leading up to GL12, the international 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.
GL12 Call for Papers, http://www.textrelease.com/gl12callforpapers.html 


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