Grey Foundations in Information Landscape: A report on the 9th International Conference on Grey Literature, Antwerp, 10-11 December 2007

摘要

From time to time we hear that the internet is the solution for grey literature [1] and that there is no longer a problem with this somehow exotic and obscure material. Some people even seem convinced that grey literature simply no longer exists and that we should stop worrying about it. Unfortunately, the reality is different. Grey literature (GL) is and remains well on the agenda of the information professional and scientist as a problem for the whole value chain of scholarly and technological communication. The 9th International Conference on Grey Literature (GL9) that took place in the House of the Flemish Province in Antwerp, Belgium, 10-11 December 2007, provided evidence that the worry about grey literature is not over and that information professionals should stay aware of the specific challenges raised by reports, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, working papers, etc.