Bridging the Knowledge Gaps: What Grey Literature does for the Library of Congress’ Indigenous Law Portal
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Bridging the Knowledge Gaps: What Grey Literature does for the Library of Congress’ Indigenous Law Portal
English: In 2014, the Library of Congress launched the Indigenous Law Portal, an open-access platform with digital resources about how indigenous peoples of the Americas govern themselves. A new classification schedule is being written, Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas (Class KIA-KIX), organizing resources by country and region, legal ...
Leveraging Grey Literature – Capitalizing on Value and the Return on Investment: A Cumulative Case Study
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International identification and ‘white and grey literature’. Identities, retrieval, reuse and the certainty of knowledg...
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Public sharing of medical advice using social media: an analysis of Twitter
Introduction: Social media tools, such as Facebook®, Twitter™, blogs and online communities, are increasingly utilized for networking and to distribute information in medicine and public health. Participation in these media has increased sharply over the past decade. Six years ago, Twitter did not exist yet now an estimated 15% of the world populat...
Library as Publisher: Convergence of New Forms and Roles of Textual and Non-Textual Grey Literature in Digital Scholarsh...
Special Collections and University Archives typically constitute libraries’, an organizations’ or institutions’ treasured assets. As libraries assume greater responsibilities for the curation and preservation of resources, they also become indispensable in issuing, publishing, releasing, and making original content accessible in digital formats, wh...
Scientific audiovisual materials and linked open data: the TIB perspective
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Scientific audiovisual materials and linked open data: the TIB perspective
Libraries are starting to use Linked Open Data (LOD) to provide their data (library data) for reuse and to enrich them. However, most initiatives are only available for textual resources, whereas non-textual resources stay aside. Firstly, this paper discusses the potential of library data to be published as LOD. Secondly, it focuses on the library ...
Situation surrounding grey literature of academic research in Japan
In recent years, significant changes have been occurred to the environment surrounding the academic information distribution in Japan. In 2013, publishing of doctoral dissertations via the internet was obliged to authors. In 2015, Expert Panel on Open Science based on Global Perspectives, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan released the report name...
Grey Literature Sources in Historical Perspective: Content Analysis of Handwritten Notes
This paper describes historical perspective of grey literature in comparison to the postulates of Serbian enlightenment in the 18th century. The theoretical part of this paper describes comparative analysis between main postulates of grey literature given in Pisa Declaration on Policy Development for Grey Literature Resources (Pisa, Italy) on May 1...
