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G r e y L i t e r a t u r e N e t w o r k S e r v i c e 2 0 0 9
Dear Colleagues,
Yes, 2008 was a great year for Grey Literature and GreyNet. If I might take
just a moment to review with you some of last year's highlights:
(*) On February 5th, I hand delivered the initial announcement of GL10 to
members of the ICSTI meeting in Paris. It was at that same meeting that I
met Brian Hitson, Associate Director of OSTI/DOE, who accepted to keynote at
the Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature;
(*) On February 25th, The British Library took on GreyNet Associate
Membership. It was The British Library who co-hosted the York Seminar in
1978, paving the way for the exploitation of European Grey Literature;
(*) On February 29th, Leap Day, GreyNet's first batch file consisting of the
GL8 Conference records was uploaded in the OpenSIGLE Repository. Subsequent
batch files followed periodically during the course of the year;
(*) On April 11th, the Grey Literature Community voted for the first time a
GreySource Frontrunner. GreySource is one of GreyNet's most trafficked
WebPages providing net-users immediate access to subject based resources and
collections in grey literature. 'Information for Practice (IP)' edited by
Prof. Gary Holden of New York University's School of Social Work was chosen
"GreySource Frontrunner 2008".
(*) On October 7th, The Grey Journal, An International Journal on Grey
Literature (ISSN 1574-1796) won the Victorine van Schaick Prize 2008 - a
Dutch National Award presented at the Netherlands Online Conference in the
Amsterdam RAI;
(*) On October 24th, I paid a site visit to The Library of Congress where
GL11, the Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature will be
hosted by FLICC-FEDLINK on December 14-15, 2009;
(*) On November 17th, GreyNet received a green light for uploading
statistical datasets in the DANSEASY Repository. There is an explicit
understanding that the majority of these datasets originate outside The
Netherlands from countries around the world. During GL10, a demonstration of
this cross linking between the DANSEASY Repository and the OpenSIGLE
Repository was presented;
(*) On December 4th, the GL9 conference papers became available in the
OpenSIGLE Repository - marking that the past 5 consecutive years (2003-2007)
of published research in the GL-Series are now available via open access;
(*) On December 7th, Anne Gentil-Beccot from the European Organization for
Nuclear Research (CERN) was presented the GreyNet Award 2008. This award was
in recognition for her outstanding contribution to the field of grey
literature;
(*) On December 8th and 9th, the Tenth International Conference on Grey
Literature was held in Science Park Amsterdam. A special review of GL10
based on the completed evaluation forms by the conference participants will
follow in the January 2009 Conference Memorandum.
GreyNet is proud of these accomplishments and particularly grateful to its
Members, who guarantee both the continuity and development of its networked
products and services.
To all of you, a Happy New Year!
Dr. Dominic Farace,
GreyNet
Grey Literature Network Service
Javastraat 194-HS
1095 CP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel/Fax +31(0)20-331.2420
info@greynet.org
http://www.greynet.org
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