2024
Conference article
Open Access
Realizing the potential of grey literature by recognizing its publishers: the PUBGREY project and the case of climate change
Farace D., Biagioni S., Carlesi C.
The way to confront climate change is by publishing the results of research dealing with the manifold and diverse topics associated with this complex entity. In response to this, GreyNet sets out to identify among its community of practice organizations that consider themselves publishers in grey literature. This is initiated by designing a standardized template. The acquisition of the data compiled via the online template harvested 25 records. The records captured in this phase of the project now comprise the PUBGREY registry openly accessible on GreyNet's website and via the GreyGuide, GreyNet's web access portal and repository. The organizations that appear in the PUBGREY registry are together seen as a consortium of publishers in grey literature. Together they demonstrate the supply-side of grey literature where its production, publication, and open access adhere to FAIR principles. Following this, a selection of records is made based on three criteria forming the population of this use case. These criteria include: open access compliance, each of the publishing bodies will have already been assigned a ROR ID, and an individual's email address is provided as the point of contact in the record. Ten of the 25 records in the PUBGREY registry adhere to the established criteria and form the population of our study. These are then asked to complete a brief online survey dealing with grey literature. The survey questions used in this study on climate change are the exact same as in a study three years earlier on circular economy. The reuse of the questionnaire was based on a recent working paper demonstrating how circular economy provides a strategy in achieving goals for climate change. Finally, via the search function on the ten websites of our survey population, a search of the terms: 'climate', 'climate change', and 'circular economy' are carried out. The results from both the survey and the searches from the websites are then analyzed and presented in summary.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, vol. 2023, pp. 17-23. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 13-14/11/2023
Farace D., Biagioni S., Carlesi C.
The way to confront climate change is by publishing the results of research dealing with the manifold and diverse topics associated with this complex entity. In response to this, GreyNet sets out to identify among its community of practice organizations that consider themselves publishers in grey literature. This is initiated by designing a standardized template. The acquisition of the data compiled via the online template harvested 25 records. The records captured in this phase of the project now comprise the PUBGREY registry openly accessible on GreyNet's website and via the GreyGuide, GreyNet's web access portal and repository. The organizations that appear in the PUBGREY registry are together seen as a consortium of publishers in grey literature. Together they demonstrate the supply-side of grey literature where its production, publication, and open access adhere to FAIR principles. Following this, a selection of records is made based on three criteria forming the population of this use case. These criteria include: open access compliance, each of the publishing bodies will have already been assigned a ROR ID, and an individual's email address is provided as the point of contact in the record. Ten of the 25 records in the PUBGREY registry adhere to the established criteria and form the population of our study. These are then asked to complete a brief online survey dealing with grey literature. The survey questions used in this study on climate change are the exact same as in a study three years earlier on circular economy. The reuse of the questionnaire was based on a recent working paper demonstrating how circular economy provides a strategy in achieving goals for climate change. Finally, via the search function on the ten websites of our survey population, a search of the terms: 'climate', 'climate change', and 'circular economy' are carried out. The results from both the survey and the searches from the websites are then analyzed and presented in summary.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, vol. 2023, pp. 17-23. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 13-14/11/2023
2024
Journal article
Open Access
Realizing the potential of Grey Literature by recognizing its publishers: the PUBGREY Project and the case of climate change
Farace D., Biagioni S., Carlesi C.
The way to confront climate change is by publishing the results of research dealing with the manifold and diverse topics associated with this complex entity. In response to this, GreyNet sets out to identify among its community of practice organizations that consider themselves publishers in grey literature. This is initiated by designing a standardized template. The acquisition of the data compiled via the online template harvested 25 records. The records captured in this phase of the project now comprise the PUBGREY registry openly accessible on GreyNet’s website and via the GreyGuide, GreyNet’s web access portal and repository. The organizations that appear in the PUBGREY registry are together seen as a consortium of publishers in grey literature. Together they demonstrate the supply-side of grey literature where its production, publication, and open access adhere to FAIR principles. Following this, a selection of records is made based on three criteria forming the population of this use case. These criteria include: open access compliance, each of the publishing bodies will have already been assigned a ROR ID, and an individual’s email address is provided as the point of contact in the record. Ten of the 25 records in the PUBGREY registry adhere to the established criteria and form the population of our study. These are then asked to complete a brief online survey dealing with grey literature. The survey questions used in this study on climate change are the exact same as in a study three years earlier on circular economy. The reuse of the questionnaire was based on a recent working paper demonstrating how circular economy provides a strategy in achieving goals for climate change. Finally, via the search function on the ten websites of our survey population, a search of the terms: ‘climate’, ‘climate change’, and ‘circular economy’ are carried out. The results from both the survey and the searches from the websites are then analyzed and presented in summary.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 20 (issue 3), pp. 197-203
Farace D., Biagioni S., Carlesi C.
The way to confront climate change is by publishing the results of research dealing with the manifold and diverse topics associated with this complex entity. In response to this, GreyNet sets out to identify among its community of practice organizations that consider themselves publishers in grey literature. This is initiated by designing a standardized template. The acquisition of the data compiled via the online template harvested 25 records. The records captured in this phase of the project now comprise the PUBGREY registry openly accessible on GreyNet’s website and via the GreyGuide, GreyNet’s web access portal and repository. The organizations that appear in the PUBGREY registry are together seen as a consortium of publishers in grey literature. Together they demonstrate the supply-side of grey literature where its production, publication, and open access adhere to FAIR principles. Following this, a selection of records is made based on three criteria forming the population of this use case. These criteria include: open access compliance, each of the publishing bodies will have already been assigned a ROR ID, and an individual’s email address is provided as the point of contact in the record. Ten of the 25 records in the PUBGREY registry adhere to the established criteria and form the population of our study. These are then asked to complete a brief online survey dealing with grey literature. The survey questions used in this study on climate change are the exact same as in a study three years earlier on circular economy. The reuse of the questionnaire was based on a recent working paper demonstrating how circular economy provides a strategy in achieving goals for climate change. Finally, via the search function on the ten websites of our survey population, a search of the terms: ‘climate’, ‘climate change’, and ‘circular economy’ are carried out. The results from both the survey and the searches from the websites are then analyzed and presented in summary.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 20 (issue 3), pp. 197-203
2024
Journal article
Open Access
Data from “Realizing the potential of grey literature by recognizing its publishers: The PUBGREY project and the case of climate change”
Farace D., Biagioni S., Carlesi C.
A selection of records from the PUBGREY Registry1 was made based on three criteria forming the population of this use case. These criteria include: open access compliance, each of the publishing bodies will have already been assigned a ROR ID2, and an individual’s email address is provided as the point of contact in the record. Ten of the 25 records that comprise the PUBGREY registry adhered to the established criteria and they were asked to complete a brief online survey dealing with grey literature. The survey questions used in the study on climate change are the exact same as in a study three years earlier on circular economy3. The reuse of the questionnaire was based on a recent working paper4 demonstrating how circular economy provides a strategy in achieving goals for climate change. Finally, via the search function on the ten websites of our survey population, a search of the terms: ‘climate’, ‘climate change’, and ‘circular economy’ were carried out. The results from both the survey and the searches from the websites were then analyzed and presented in summary.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 20 (issue 3), pp. 204-205
DOI: 10.17026/ss/gwiffk
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Farace D., Biagioni S., Carlesi C.
A selection of records from the PUBGREY Registry1 was made based on three criteria forming the population of this use case. These criteria include: open access compliance, each of the publishing bodies will have already been assigned a ROR ID2, and an individual’s email address is provided as the point of contact in the record. Ten of the 25 records that comprise the PUBGREY registry adhered to the established criteria and they were asked to complete a brief online survey dealing with grey literature. The survey questions used in the study on climate change are the exact same as in a study three years earlier on circular economy3. The reuse of the questionnaire was based on a recent working paper4 demonstrating how circular economy provides a strategy in achieving goals for climate change. Finally, via the search function on the ten websites of our survey population, a search of the terms: ‘climate’, ‘climate change’, and ‘circular economy’ were carried out. The results from both the survey and the searches from the websites were then analyzed and presented in summary.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 20 (issue 3), pp. 204-205
DOI: 10.17026/ss/gwiffk
Metrics:
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2023
Conference article
Open Access
Digital publishing, Open Access, and Grey Literature: the war in Ukraine 2022 as a use case
Farace D, Smith Pl, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
The underlying strategy in this study focuses on digital persistent identifiers and other linked open data as they become connected and interrelated in the course of research and whose outcome is published as grey literature. On January 31st 2022, GreyNet published its 2nd edition of the International Directory of Organizations in Grey Literature (IDGL). This edition includes record entries from 45 countries worldwide with a listing of 224 organizations. Each entry contains the organization's URL and ROR ID, which further provides access to other linked open data such as GRID, ISNI, CrossRef Funder ID, and Wikidata. GreyNet will use this information resource as a lead into the project dealing with digital publishing, open access, and grey literature, whereby the War in Ukraine will serve as a use case. The population of the study relies for the greater part on IDGL, a digital publication that contains access to persistent identifiers, specifically the ROR ID. An online survey is then further designed, the questions are formulated in such a way that a number of the responses provide other linked open data and digital persistent identifiers namely ORCiDs and DOIs. Survey data together with the linked metadata gathered and compiled in this study will then be analyzed. The results are expected to demonstrate the currentness of grey literature, its diverseness in formats and document types, the organizations that stand behind these publications, and how actionable persistent identifiers opens research in grey literature to a new level playing field situated in a FAIR environment. An environment where data is not only findable and openly accessible but also interoperable and reusable by means of digital publishing. Records harvested via the online survey will be included in the RGL Collection (Resources in Grey Literature) housed in the GreyGuide Repository.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 122-127. Online conference, 05/12/2022
Farace D, Smith Pl, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
The underlying strategy in this study focuses on digital persistent identifiers and other linked open data as they become connected and interrelated in the course of research and whose outcome is published as grey literature. On January 31st 2022, GreyNet published its 2nd edition of the International Directory of Organizations in Grey Literature (IDGL). This edition includes record entries from 45 countries worldwide with a listing of 224 organizations. Each entry contains the organization's URL and ROR ID, which further provides access to other linked open data such as GRID, ISNI, CrossRef Funder ID, and Wikidata. GreyNet will use this information resource as a lead into the project dealing with digital publishing, open access, and grey literature, whereby the War in Ukraine will serve as a use case. The population of the study relies for the greater part on IDGL, a digital publication that contains access to persistent identifiers, specifically the ROR ID. An online survey is then further designed, the questions are formulated in such a way that a number of the responses provide other linked open data and digital persistent identifiers namely ORCiDs and DOIs. Survey data together with the linked metadata gathered and compiled in this study will then be analyzed. The results are expected to demonstrate the currentness of grey literature, its diverseness in formats and document types, the organizations that stand behind these publications, and how actionable persistent identifiers opens research in grey literature to a new level playing field situated in a FAIR environment. An environment where data is not only findable and openly accessible but also interoperable and reusable by means of digital publishing. Records harvested via the online survey will be included in the RGL Collection (Resources in Grey Literature) housed in the GreyGuide Repository.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 122-127. Online conference, 05/12/2022
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2023
Journal article
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Digital publishing, open access, and grey literature: the war in Ukraine as a use case
Farace D., Smith P. L., Biagioni S., Carlesi C.
naSource: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 19 (issue 3), pp. 159-164
Farace D., Smith P. L., Biagioni S., Carlesi C.
naSource: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 19 (issue 3), pp. 159-164
2022
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Persistent identifiers and Grey Literature: A PID Project and Greynet Use Case
Farace D, Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Baars C
Managing grey literature presents many challenges for libraries, from acquisitions to access. One way libraries can promote access to collected grey literature is through the assignment of persistent identifiers (PIDs) to them.
Farace D, Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Baars C
Managing grey literature presents many challenges for libraries, from acquisitions to access. One way libraries can promote access to collected grey literature is through the assignment of persistent identifiers (PIDs) to them.
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2022
Contribution to conference
Open Access
Infrastructures for Science (InfraScience). Connecting research and development to support Open Science
Biagioni S., Castelli D.
This poster describes the mission and research activity of the InfraScience Laboratory
Biagioni S., Castelli D.
This poster describes the mission and research activity of the InfraScience Laboratory
2021
Contribution to conference
Open Access
GreyGuide: an example of Open Access publishing in GL
Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Farace D
The poster shows the goals achieved in the last 5 years, the progress, new features and new resources made available by GreyGuide in support of Open Access Publishing. In 2015, GreyNet International carried out an online survey among its stakeholders in order to determine their use of its sustained information resources. Now five years on, having benefited from technical developments, the migration of hundreds of metadata full-text records, and the addition of enriched fields and functionality, the GreyGuide offers GreyNet a testbed from which to map and measure its capacity in open access publishing. The population of this study is drawn from digital resources accessible via both the GreyGuide Portal and Repository.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, p. 135. Online Conference, 19/11/2020
Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Farace D
The poster shows the goals achieved in the last 5 years, the progress, new features and new resources made available by GreyGuide in support of Open Access Publishing. In 2015, GreyNet International carried out an online survey among its stakeholders in order to determine their use of its sustained information resources. Now five years on, having benefited from technical developments, the migration of hundreds of metadata full-text records, and the addition of enriched fields and functionality, the GreyGuide offers GreyNet a testbed from which to map and measure its capacity in open access publishing. The population of this study is drawn from digital resources accessible via both the GreyGuide Portal and Repository.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, p. 135. Online Conference, 19/11/2020
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2020
Conference article
Open Access
Accessgrey: securing open access to grey literature for science and society
Farace D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C, De Robbio A, Cesarek A, De Blaaij C, Ikeda K, Crowe J
Persistent identifiers such as a DOI1 for a publication and an ORCiD2 for an author/researcher can be approached from both the demand-side as well as supply-side of information. It appears however that the former attracts more attention. Here emphasis lies in the access to and preservation of research output. Yet, it is on the supply-side regarding the acquisition of research output that persistent identifiers may by the same token have influence in identifying and populating prospective data archives and repositories. This study will look at the influence persistent identifiers have in securing the acquisition of grey literature for public access. The goal of this project is twofold. First, to carry out a survey within the grey literature community as to the opinions, uses, and applications of persistent identifiers. And second, to initiate a project geared to populate a new collection housed in the GreyGuide Repository3 by using the DOI as an incentive. Resources in Grey Literature (RGL) is as a generic, multidisciplinary collection that will serve for this purpose. Using GreyNet's distribution channels and social media, stakeholders in the field of grey literature are invited to enter one or more of their publications in the RGL collection. Each new entry will receive a DOI minted by GreyNet International and further stored and preserved in the DataCite registry4. Also, a system generated citation will be added to each new entry in order to facilitate record use. The types of grey literature documents eligible for entry in the RGL collection are numerous5. Brief guidelines for record entry require that it be self-archived using the existing online-template and that both the metadata record and accompanying full-text document(s) are in English. An additional descriptive field does allow for entry in another language. And, a translation of the document can also be uploaded in the repository. Finally, it is understood that by submitting the metadata record and file(s), they become open access compliant under Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA6. The initial phase of the project commenced in April 2019 and closed in October 2019. Records harvested during this period along with the results of the survey will be analyzed in its second phase. In the final phase, the project's outcome will be published. Results should indicate whether the AccessGrey Project be extended to other collections in the GreyGuide, and if this project would be of value to other communities of practice in the field of grey literature.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, vol. 2020-October, pp. 89-96. Hannover, Germany, 22-23 October, 2019
Farace D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C, De Robbio A, Cesarek A, De Blaaij C, Ikeda K, Crowe J
Persistent identifiers such as a DOI1 for a publication and an ORCiD2 for an author/researcher can be approached from both the demand-side as well as supply-side of information. It appears however that the former attracts more attention. Here emphasis lies in the access to and preservation of research output. Yet, it is on the supply-side regarding the acquisition of research output that persistent identifiers may by the same token have influence in identifying and populating prospective data archives and repositories. This study will look at the influence persistent identifiers have in securing the acquisition of grey literature for public access. The goal of this project is twofold. First, to carry out a survey within the grey literature community as to the opinions, uses, and applications of persistent identifiers. And second, to initiate a project geared to populate a new collection housed in the GreyGuide Repository3 by using the DOI as an incentive. Resources in Grey Literature (RGL) is as a generic, multidisciplinary collection that will serve for this purpose. Using GreyNet's distribution channels and social media, stakeholders in the field of grey literature are invited to enter one or more of their publications in the RGL collection. Each new entry will receive a DOI minted by GreyNet International and further stored and preserved in the DataCite registry4. Also, a system generated citation will be added to each new entry in order to facilitate record use. The types of grey literature documents eligible for entry in the RGL collection are numerous5. Brief guidelines for record entry require that it be self-archived using the existing online-template and that both the metadata record and accompanying full-text document(s) are in English. An additional descriptive field does allow for entry in another language. And, a translation of the document can also be uploaded in the repository. Finally, it is understood that by submitting the metadata record and file(s), they become open access compliant under Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA6. The initial phase of the project commenced in April 2019 and closed in October 2019. Records harvested during this period along with the results of the survey will be analyzed in its second phase. In the final phase, the project's outcome will be published. Results should indicate whether the AccessGrey Project be extended to other collections in the GreyGuide, and if this project would be of value to other communities of practice in the field of grey literature.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, vol. 2020-October, pp. 89-96. Hannover, Germany, 22-23 October, 2019
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2020
Journal article
Restricted
Data from "policy development for grey literature resources: An assessment of the pisa declaration"
Farace D, Savic D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
The data collected is based on the answers of 60 respondents to an online questionnaire. The respondents were among a controlled population of signatories, who endorsed the Pisa Declaration on Policy Development for Grey Literature Resources published in English on May 16, 2014. Translations in 22 other languages have since appeared published and the Declaration remains online, open for endorsement. The dataset consists of responses to ten questions of which one allowed a single response, six allowed for multiple responses, and three were open-ended. All 10 questions invited additional comments. After two years from its initial publication, the survey sought to understand how important the organizational, educational, legal, financial, and technical points in the Pisa Declaration are to the respondent's organization, what additions and/or revisions deserve consideration, and did the respondent have an opportunity to promote public awareness to the Pisa Declaration. The data was collected over a 12-week period in 2016 via SurveyMonkey, where it remains stored along with a copy housed in the DANS Easy Archive. It's potential for reuse resides in its full open access compliance and lends itself to comparison with other Declarations published in the field of information. The reuse of the data may also be considered of value in leveraging information resources.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 16 (issue 1), pp. 61-63
DOI: 10.17026/dans-xru-kbnd
Metrics:
Farace D, Savic D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
The data collected is based on the answers of 60 respondents to an online questionnaire. The respondents were among a controlled population of signatories, who endorsed the Pisa Declaration on Policy Development for Grey Literature Resources published in English on May 16, 2014. Translations in 22 other languages have since appeared published and the Declaration remains online, open for endorsement. The dataset consists of responses to ten questions of which one allowed a single response, six allowed for multiple responses, and three were open-ended. All 10 questions invited additional comments. After two years from its initial publication, the survey sought to understand how important the organizational, educational, legal, financial, and technical points in the Pisa Declaration are to the respondent's organization, what additions and/or revisions deserve consideration, and did the respondent have an opportunity to promote public awareness to the Pisa Declaration. The data was collected over a 12-week period in 2016 via SurveyMonkey, where it remains stored along with a copy housed in the DANS Easy Archive. It's potential for reuse resides in its full open access compliance and lends itself to comparison with other Declarations published in the field of information. The reuse of the data may also be considered of value in leveraging information resources.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 16 (issue 1), pp. 61-63
DOI: 10.17026/dans-xru-kbnd
Metrics:
2020
Journal article
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Data from "GreyNet's capacity in open access publishing: mapping and measuring its digital trail via the GreyGuide portal and repository
Farace D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
GreyNet's web-access portal and repository is the GreyGuide - an internet resource that is fully open access compliant. Having benefited from technical developments, the migration of hundreds of metadata full-text records, and the addition of enriched fields and functionality since its launch, the GreyGuide now offers GreyNet1 a testbed from which to map and measure its capacity in open access publishing. The population of this study is drawn from digital resources accessible via the GreyGuide Portal and Repository . The selection is based on the criteria that GreyNet is the content provider, that they are open access compliant, that they are sustained information resources, and that there are available use statistics from which to draw upon. This study focusses on the open access to GreyNet's range of publications, where attention is drawn to the specific document types that meet the sampling criteria.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 16 (issue 3), pp. 220-221
Farace D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
GreyNet's web-access portal and repository is the GreyGuide - an internet resource that is fully open access compliant. Having benefited from technical developments, the migration of hundreds of metadata full-text records, and the addition of enriched fields and functionality since its launch, the GreyGuide now offers GreyNet1 a testbed from which to map and measure its capacity in open access publishing. The population of this study is drawn from digital resources accessible via the GreyGuide Portal and Repository . The selection is based on the criteria that GreyNet is the content provider, that they are open access compliant, that they are sustained information resources, and that there are available use statistics from which to draw upon. This study focusses on the open access to GreyNet's range of publications, where attention is drawn to the specific document types that meet the sampling criteria.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 16 (issue 3), pp. 220-221
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2020
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AccessGrey: securing open access to grey literature for science and society
Farace D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C, De Robbio A, Earek A, De Blaaij C, Ikeda K, Crowe J
Persistent identifiers such as a DOI1 for a publication and an ORCiD2 for an author/researcher can be approached from both the demand-side as well as supply-side of information. It appears however that the former attracts more attention. Here emphasis lies in the access to and preservation of research output. Yet, it is on the supply-side regarding the acquisition of research output that persistent identifiers may by the same token have influence in identifying and populating prospective data archives and repositories. This study will look at the influence persistent identifiers have in securing the acquisition of grey literature for public access.The goal of this project is twofold. First, to carry out a survey within the grey literature community as to the opinions, uses, and applications of persistent identifiers. And second, to initiate a project geared to populate a new collection housed in the GreyGuide Repository3 by using the DOI as an incentive. Resources in Grey Literature (RGL) is as a generic, multidisciplinary collection that will serve for this purpose.Using GreyNet's distribution channels and social media, stakeholders in the field of grey literature are invited to enter one or more of their publications in the RGL collection. Each new entry will receive a DOI minted by GreyNet International and further stored and preserved in the DataCite registry . Also, a system generated citation will be added to each new entry in order to facilitate record use. The types of grey literature documents eligible for entry in the RGL collection are numerous . Brief guidelines for record entry require that it be self-archived using the existing online-template and that both the metadata record and accompanying full-text document(s) are in English. An additional descriptive field does allow for entry in another language. And, a translation of the document can also be uploaded in the repository. Finally, it is understood that by submitting the metadata record and file(s), they become open access compliant under Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA. The initial phase of the project commenced in April 2019 and closed in October 2019. Records harvested during this period along with the results of the survey will be analyzed in its second phase. In the final phase, the project's outcome will be published. Results should indicate whether the AccessGrey Project be extended to other collections in the GreyGuide, and if this project would be of value to other communities of practice in the field of grey literature.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 16 (issue 3), pp. 153-159
Farace D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C, De Robbio A, Earek A, De Blaaij C, Ikeda K, Crowe J
Persistent identifiers such as a DOI1 for a publication and an ORCiD2 for an author/researcher can be approached from both the demand-side as well as supply-side of information. It appears however that the former attracts more attention. Here emphasis lies in the access to and preservation of research output. Yet, it is on the supply-side regarding the acquisition of research output that persistent identifiers may by the same token have influence in identifying and populating prospective data archives and repositories. This study will look at the influence persistent identifiers have in securing the acquisition of grey literature for public access.The goal of this project is twofold. First, to carry out a survey within the grey literature community as to the opinions, uses, and applications of persistent identifiers. And second, to initiate a project geared to populate a new collection housed in the GreyGuide Repository3 by using the DOI as an incentive. Resources in Grey Literature (RGL) is as a generic, multidisciplinary collection that will serve for this purpose.Using GreyNet's distribution channels and social media, stakeholders in the field of grey literature are invited to enter one or more of their publications in the RGL collection. Each new entry will receive a DOI minted by GreyNet International and further stored and preserved in the DataCite registry . Also, a system generated citation will be added to each new entry in order to facilitate record use. The types of grey literature documents eligible for entry in the RGL collection are numerous . Brief guidelines for record entry require that it be self-archived using the existing online-template and that both the metadata record and accompanying full-text document(s) are in English. An additional descriptive field does allow for entry in another language. And, a translation of the document can also be uploaded in the repository. Finally, it is understood that by submitting the metadata record and file(s), they become open access compliant under Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA. The initial phase of the project commenced in April 2019 and closed in October 2019. Records harvested during this period along with the results of the survey will be analyzed in its second phase. In the final phase, the project's outcome will be published. Results should indicate whether the AccessGrey Project be extended to other collections in the GreyGuide, and if this project would be of value to other communities of practice in the field of grey literature.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 16 (issue 3), pp. 153-159
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2019
Conference article
Open Access
Semantic query analysis from the global science gateway
Goggi S, Pardelli G, Bartolini R, Monachini M, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
We focused on building a corpus constituted by the query logs registered by the GreyGuide: Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature and received by the WorldWideScience.org (The Global Science Gateway) portal.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 105-113. New Orleans, USA, 3-4 December 2018
Goggi S, Pardelli G, Bartolini R, Monachini M, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
We focused on building a corpus constituted by the query logs registered by the GreyGuide: Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature and received by the WorldWideScience.org (The Global Science Gateway) portal.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 105-113. New Orleans, USA, 3-4 December 2018
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2019
Journal article
Open Access
Semantic Query Analysis from the Global Science Gateway
Goggi S, Pardelli G, Bartolini R, Monachini M, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
Nowadays web portals play an essential role in searching and retrieving information in the several fields of knowledge: they are ever more technologically advanced and designed for supporting the storage of a huge amount of information in natural language originating from the queries launched by users worldwide. Given this scenario, we focused on building a corpus constituted by the query logs registered by the GreyGuide: Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature and received by the WorldWideScience.org (The Global Science Gateway) portal: the aim is to retrieve information related to social media which as of today represent a considerable source of data more and more widely used for research ends.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 15 (issue 3), pp. 147-155
Goggi S, Pardelli G, Bartolini R, Monachini M, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
Nowadays web portals play an essential role in searching and retrieving information in the several fields of knowledge: they are ever more technologically advanced and designed for supporting the storage of a huge amount of information in natural language originating from the queries launched by users worldwide. Given this scenario, we focused on building a corpus constituted by the query logs registered by the GreyGuide: Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature and received by the WorldWideScience.org (The Global Science Gateway) portal: the aim is to retrieve information related to social media which as of today represent a considerable source of data more and more widely used for research ends.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 15 (issue 3), pp. 147-155
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2019
Contribution to conference
Open Access
GreyGuide: Research and Knowledge Sharing in the Field of Grey Literature - 2013-2019
Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Farace D
The GreyGuide-Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature was launched in 2013 as a collaborative effort between GreyNetInternational and CNR-ISTI, Pisa,Italy. Objective: To manage Open Source Repositories and provide a unique resource in the field of grey literature that is long awaited and which responds to the information needs of a diverse, international grey literature community adhering to Open Science guiding principles. Ongoing Activity: - Grey Guide Portal managing and upgrading; - GreyForum Series enabling access to material produced by the speakers; - DOI metadata field for GL-Conference Papers and RGL documents in the GreyGuide Repository; - Access GreyProject.
Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Farace D
The GreyGuide-Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature was launched in 2013 as a collaborative effort between GreyNetInternational and CNR-ISTI, Pisa,Italy. Objective: To manage Open Source Repositories and provide a unique resource in the field of grey literature that is long awaited and which responds to the information needs of a diverse, international grey literature community adhering to Open Science guiding principles. Ongoing Activity: - Grey Guide Portal managing and upgrading; - GreyForum Series enabling access to material produced by the speakers; - DOI metadata field for GL-Conference Papers and RGL documents in the GreyGuide Repository; - Access GreyProject.
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greyguide.isti.cnr.it | CNR IRIS | ISTI Repository | CNR IRIS
2019
Conference article
Open Access
AccessGrey: Securing Open Access to Grey Literature for Science and Society
Farace D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
Persistent identifiers such as a DOI for a publication and an ORCiD for an author/researcher can be approached from both the demand-side as well as supply-side of information. It appears however that the former attracts more attention. Here emphasis lies in the access to and preservation of research output. Yet, it is on the supply-side regarding the acquisition of research output that persistent identifiers may by the same token have influence in identifying and populating prospective data archives and repositories. This study will look at the influence persistent identifiers have in securing the acquisition of grey literature for public access. The goal of this project is twofold. First, to carry out a survey within the grey literature community as to the opinions, uses, and applications of persistent identifiers. And second, to initiate a project geared to populate a new collection housed in the GreyGuide Repository by using the DOI as an incentive. Resources in Grey Literature (RGL) is as a generic, multidisciplinary collection that will serve for this purpose. Using GreyNet's distribution channels and social media, stakeholders in the field of grey literature are invited to enter one or more of their publications in the RGL collection. Each new entry will receive a DOI minted by GreyNet International and further stored and preserved in the DataCite registry. Also, a system generated citation will be added to each new entry in order to facilitate record use. The types of grey literature documents eligible for entry in the RGL collection are numerous and can be found at http://www.greynet.org/greysourceindex/documenttypes.html. Brief guidelines for record entry require that it be self-archived using the existing online template and that both the metadata record and accompanying full-text document(s) are in English. An additional descriptive field does allow for entry in another language. And, a translation of the document can also be uploaded in the repository. Finally, it is understood that by submitting the metadata record and file(s), they become open access compliant under Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA. The initial phase of the project commences in April 2019 and closes in September 2019. Records harvested during this period along with the results of the survey will be analyzed in its second phase. In the final phase, the project's outcome will be published. Results should indicate whether the AccessGrey Project be extended to other collections in the GreyGuide, and if this project would be of value to other communities of practice in the field of grey literature.
Farace D, Frantzen J, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
Persistent identifiers such as a DOI for a publication and an ORCiD for an author/researcher can be approached from both the demand-side as well as supply-side of information. It appears however that the former attracts more attention. Here emphasis lies in the access to and preservation of research output. Yet, it is on the supply-side regarding the acquisition of research output that persistent identifiers may by the same token have influence in identifying and populating prospective data archives and repositories. This study will look at the influence persistent identifiers have in securing the acquisition of grey literature for public access. The goal of this project is twofold. First, to carry out a survey within the grey literature community as to the opinions, uses, and applications of persistent identifiers. And second, to initiate a project geared to populate a new collection housed in the GreyGuide Repository by using the DOI as an incentive. Resources in Grey Literature (RGL) is as a generic, multidisciplinary collection that will serve for this purpose. Using GreyNet's distribution channels and social media, stakeholders in the field of grey literature are invited to enter one or more of their publications in the RGL collection. Each new entry will receive a DOI minted by GreyNet International and further stored and preserved in the DataCite registry. Also, a system generated citation will be added to each new entry in order to facilitate record use. The types of grey literature documents eligible for entry in the RGL collection are numerous and can be found at http://www.greynet.org/greysourceindex/documenttypes.html. Brief guidelines for record entry require that it be self-archived using the existing online template and that both the metadata record and accompanying full-text document(s) are in English. An additional descriptive field does allow for entry in another language. And, a translation of the document can also be uploaded in the repository. Finally, it is understood that by submitting the metadata record and file(s), they become open access compliant under Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA. The initial phase of the project commences in April 2019 and closes in September 2019. Records harvested during this period along with the results of the survey will be analyzed in its second phase. In the final phase, the project's outcome will be published. Results should indicate whether the AccessGrey Project be extended to other collections in the GreyGuide, and if this project would be of value to other communities of practice in the field of grey literature.
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CNR IRIS | ISTI Repository | CNR IRIS
2019
Contribution to conference
Open Access
Research and knowledge sharing in the field of Grey Literature - 2013 - 2019
Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Farace D
The GreyGuide - Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature was launched in 2013 as a collaborative effort between GreyNet International and ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy. This year GreyGuide celebrates 6 years of work aimed at achieving results in line with the needs of the scientific community. GreyGuide is in continuous evolution both as regards the repository and the portal and will come to serve as GreyNet's web access portal. The GreyGuide manages Open Source Repositories and provides a unique resource in the field of grey literature that is long awaited and which responds to the information needs of a diverse, international grey literature community adhering to Open Science guiding principles. This year activities dealing with the GreyGuide have focused on oupgrading the new version of its Portal; omanaging and upgrading teh portal for the GreyForum Series enabling access to material produced by the speakers; oincluding an ORCID metadata field in the BIO Collection in the GreyGuide Repository; oincluding a DOI metadata field for GL-Conference Papers and RGL Resources in Grey Literaure in the GreyGuide Repository; oAccessGrey Project. GreyGuide is GreyNet's Web Access Portal and Repository With the recent addition of the RGL Collection (Resources in Grey Literature), the acquisition of generic, multidisciplinary, and diverse grey literature documents types is underway. Each new metadata, full-text record is assigned a DOI and system generated citation.
Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Farace D
The GreyGuide - Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature was launched in 2013 as a collaborative effort between GreyNet International and ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy. This year GreyGuide celebrates 6 years of work aimed at achieving results in line with the needs of the scientific community. GreyGuide is in continuous evolution both as regards the repository and the portal and will come to serve as GreyNet's web access portal. The GreyGuide manages Open Source Repositories and provides a unique resource in the field of grey literature that is long awaited and which responds to the information needs of a diverse, international grey literature community adhering to Open Science guiding principles. This year activities dealing with the GreyGuide have focused on oupgrading the new version of its Portal; omanaging and upgrading teh portal for the GreyForum Series enabling access to material produced by the speakers; oincluding an ORCID metadata field in the BIO Collection in the GreyGuide Repository; oincluding a DOI metadata field for GL-Conference Papers and RGL Resources in Grey Literaure in the GreyGuide Repository; oAccessGrey Project. GreyGuide is GreyNet's Web Access Portal and Repository With the recent addition of the RGL Collection (Resources in Grey Literature), the acquisition of generic, multidisciplinary, and diverse grey literature documents types is underway. Each new metadata, full-text record is assigned a DOI and system generated citation.
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greyguide.isti.cnr.it | CNR IRIS | ISTI Repository | CNR IRIS
2018
Conference article
Open Access
Semantic query analysis from the global science gateway
Goggi S, Pardelli G, Bartolini R, Monachini M, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
We focused on building a corpus constituted by the query logs registered by the GreyGuide: Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature and received by the WorldWideScience.org (The Global Science Gateway) portal: the aim is to retrieve information related to social media which as of today represent a considerable source of data more and more widely used for research ends. This project includes eight months of query logs3 registered between July 2017 and February 2018 for a total of 445,827 queries. The analysis mainly concentrates on the semantics of the queries received from the portal clients: it is a process of information retrieval from a rich digital catalogue whose language is dynamic, is evolving and follows - as well as reflects - the cultural changes of our modern society.
Goggi S, Pardelli G, Bartolini R, Monachini M, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
We focused on building a corpus constituted by the query logs registered by the GreyGuide: Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature and received by the WorldWideScience.org (The Global Science Gateway) portal: the aim is to retrieve information related to social media which as of today represent a considerable source of data more and more widely used for research ends. This project includes eight months of query logs3 registered between July 2017 and February 2018 for a total of 445,827 queries. The analysis mainly concentrates on the semantics of the queries received from the portal clients: it is a process of information retrieval from a rich digital catalogue whose language is dynamic, is evolving and follows - as well as reflects - the cultural changes of our modern society.
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greyguide.isti.cnr.it | CNR IRIS | ISTI Repository | CNR IRIS
2018
Contribution to conference
Open Access
GreyGuide 2013-2018: five years of collaborative effort sharing knowledge and data on grey literature
Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Farace D
The GreyGuide was launched in 2013 as a collaborative effort between GreyNet International and CNR-ISTI (Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (NeMIS-Lab), Pisa, Italy. In 2018 GreyGuide celebrates 5 years of work aimed at achieving results in line with the needs of a diverse, international grey literature community adhering to Open Science guiding principles. The GreyGuide provides a unique resource in the field of grey literature that is long awaited and is in continuous evolution both as regards the repository and the portal and will come to serve as GreyNet's web access portal.
Biagioni S, Carlesi C, Farace D
The GreyGuide was launched in 2013 as a collaborative effort between GreyNet International and CNR-ISTI (Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (NeMIS-Lab), Pisa, Italy. In 2018 GreyGuide celebrates 5 years of work aimed at achieving results in line with the needs of a diverse, international grey literature community adhering to Open Science guiding principles. The GreyGuide provides a unique resource in the field of grey literature that is long awaited and is in continuous evolution both as regards the repository and the portal and will come to serve as GreyNet's web access portal.
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greyguide.isti.cnr.it | CNR IRIS | ISTI Repository | ISTI Repository | CNR IRIS | CNR IRIS
2018
Other
Open Access
GreyGuide Repository and Portal: Advancements and Impact Assessment 5 Years on!
Farace D, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
In 2013, GreyNet International and the Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy began work on the construction of the GreyGuide repository, which would house works of good practice in the field of grey literature. This joint venture soon expanded and came to also serve as GreyNet's Web Access Portal. Now five years on ISTI-CNR - the service provider and GreyNet International - a content provider openly discuss their return on investments in human and information resources. The presentation concludes with an impact assessment and further course of action.
Farace D, Biagioni S, Carlesi C
In 2013, GreyNet International and the Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy began work on the construction of the GreyGuide repository, which would house works of good practice in the field of grey literature. This joint venture soon expanded and came to also serve as GreyNet's Web Access Portal. Now five years on ISTI-CNR - the service provider and GreyNet International - a content provider openly discuss their return on investments in human and information resources. The presentation concludes with an impact assessment and further course of action.
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CNR IRIS | ISTI Repository | www.nusl.cz | CNR IRIS | CNR IRIS