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Ubiquity of Grey Literature in a Connected Content Context

Ubiquity of Grey Literature in a Connected Content Context. Julia Gelfand University of California, Irvine jgelfand@uci.edu Paper presented at GL5 Conference Amsterdam 4 December 2003. Ubiquity & Grey Literature (GL): What’s the relationship?. Scholarly & scientific publishing challenged

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Ubiquity of Grey Literature in a Connected Content Context

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  1. Ubiquity of Grey Literature in a Connected Content Context Julia Gelfand University of California, Irvine jgelfand@uci.edu Paper presented at GL5 Conference Amsterdam 4 December 2003

  2. 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

  3. Meaning of Ubiquity? • “exiting everywhere” • “inescapable” • “where technology becomes virtually invisible in our lives” • can incorporate multimedia • entertains privacy & security issues differently

  4. 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

  5. Traditional Means of Evaluation • Audience • Authority • Purpose • Objectivity • Currency • Coverage • Accuracy • Relevancy

  6. New Criteria to Evaluate • Usability • Aesthetic Value • Comprehensiveness • Connectivity • Dependability • Links to related or opposing content

  7. May Also Include Such Values: • Aesthetic • Historical • Mathematical • Health • Moral/Religious • Scientific • Social

  8. And… • Economic • Philosophical • Physical • Mechanical • Cultural • Geographical • Personal attributes.

  9. Common Elements • Interdisciplinary • Collaboratively designed & prepared • Promotes critical thinking • Encourages multimedia • Anticipates diverse users

  10. Contextualizing New Products • Builds on proposal • Graphics intensive • Promotes debate & critique • Participative & interactive • Combines best of journalism with rich content

  11. Standard Sources of GL • Online journals • Preprint archives • Major bibliographic resources • Professional society sites • University department sites • Library sites • Data archives

  12. And... • Personal web pages • Government agency sites • Industry sites • Non-profits • Venture capitalists and development sources • Observatories

  13. And... • Competitive intelligence • Image catalogues & archives • Etc.

  14. Innovation, New Knowledge & GL • New Business Models • Creativity • Communications & wireless technologies in great abundance • More connectivity • Emphasis on networking • New & more open organizational cultures

  15. 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

  16. Other Qualities • Portability • Increasingly heavily cited • Has learning/educational mission • Used by different forms of computing • Transcends concrete to abstract

  17. 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/)

  18. 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 mode

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