[LINK] FW: Grey literature conference at NLA in October

[Tom Worthington]

On 24/09/12 12:52, Paul Koerbin wrote:

> One of the principal concerns in ... 'grey literature' ... is who will take some
> initiative and responsibility for its long term access? ...

My suggestion is that librarians should take on the role of looking 
after information.

>  In fact 'grey literature' is essentially what is already (and has been for a long
> time) the priority focus of the NLA's PANDORA Archive activities.

Yes, PANDORA is a good example of librarians taking on long term 
information storage.

> Researchers have identified a concern about the long term
> preservation of and access to material that is not the property and
> asset of commercial publishers ...

Yes. So I suggest librarians help with on-line publishing facilities, so 
that material will be easy to archive later. A good example would be 
university libraries, which could provide journal, conference and eBook 
publishing facilities for their academic clients. University libraries 
would then not have to  buy or be copies of papers, as these would 
already be in the library system.


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