WELCOME TO“FINDING SCITECH GREY LITERATURE:

RESOURCES FOR NEW AND INTERMEDIATE LEVEL RESEARCHERS”

ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER SLA VIRTUAL LUNCH

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Speaker:Matthew Von Hendy, Green

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Matthew Von Hendy, Green Heron Information Services

FINDING SCITECH GREY LITERATURE: RESOURCES FOR NEW AND INTERMEDIATE LEVEL RESEARCHERSMatthew Von Hendy MA/MLS

Green Heron Information Services

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VIRTUAL LUNCH GOALS

Briefly discuss what defines grey literature, what type of resources are covered/what are not, trends and issues in this area

Cover key search tools for scitech grey literature and touch on strengths/weakness of each

Look at the role of repositories in this area and take a peek at some leading examples

Discuss subject specific databases that contain extensive scitech grey literature

Questions and answers

A FEW NOTES

Scientific and technology grey literature resources will our major topic

We will not be covering health sciences grey literature resources

We will be focused primarily on major/well known resources—there are many more specialized sources

Also, we will concentrate primarily on open access, low cost resources although we will touch on some subscription databases/resources

WHAT IS GREY LITERATURE?

Pull up a chair and have some coffee/tea…

WHAT IS GREY LITERATURE (CONT.)

That which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers."PloS description– The Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature 1999

Peer-reviewed journal articles, academic/commercially published books

WHAT DOES THAT LEAVE?

MANY FORMATS Technical reports Pre-Prints Fact Sheets Standards Patents Working papers Committee reports Business documents Newsletters Government documents Technical documentation Conference proceedings White papers Symposia Bulletins Conference Papers

BENEFITS OF SCITECH GREYLIT

Provide high level overviews Recent bibliographies Source of cutting edge information– grey

literature can frequently appear before conventional academic literature

Source of statistics and datasets

LIMITATIONS OF SCITECH GREY LIT

Reliability of information—is there any peer-review or evidence base

Who is publishing it—have you heard of the organization and/or do they have a particular point of view

Searchability—even if it’s a great or useful piece of work can it be found?

STATUS OF SCITECH GREYLIT SEARCH

The Mediocre, the Bad and the Ugly (apologies to Clint Eastwood)

SEARCH TOOLS– THE MEDIOCRE

DOE Information Systems Science Accelerator-- http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/dsa/search.html

Federated search covering DOE related research, articles and conference proceedings Science Gov http://www.science.gov/scigov/ Searches over 50 U.S. Government science-related databases and websites WorldWideScience.Org --

http://worldwidescience.org/wws/Federated search that covers national and international government science resources

SEARCH TOOLS- THE MEDIOCRE (CONT.)

SciTech Connecthttp://www.osti.gov/scitech/Consolidates OSTI’s Information Bridge and Energy Citations database.

SEARCH TOOLS – THE BAD

OAIster http://oaister.worldcat.org/advancedsearch

Open access project started by University of Michigan—picked up by OCLC-designed to pick up hard to find grey literatureTip: Corporate/Conference Name can be very useful Open DOAR Content Search

http://www.opendoar.org/search.php Maintained by the University of Nottingham—very good quality control. A directory of open access directories—many scitech organizations included

SEARCH TOOLS – THE UGLY

Google Scholar – scholar.google.com Use Advanced Search featuresTip: Use ‘thesis dissertation’ in the ‘with at least one of the words’ field if you are looking for these Google – www.google.comTip: Limit your search to a specific domain or site and use the filtertype search filter since a lot of gray literature appears as PDFs

SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

Scopus, Web of Science—conference papers Proquest Dissertations Abstracts--- maybe

dissertations and theses? Biosis, Compendex, GeoRef, IEEE Xplore,

Inspec, Environment Sciences and Pollution Management– conference papers, meeting publications, some technical reports

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

See Ranking Web of Repositories for a decent listing of US university repositories

http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Americas/USA Just some examples:Virginia Tech Digital Library and Archiveshttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/MIT Institutional Repositoryhttp://dspace.mit.edu/

DON’T FORGET ABOUT DATA AS A SCITECH GREYLIT RESOURCE

Explosive growth, development of many resources

Databib— http://databib.org/ Major directory of data repositories--searchable Brian Westra’s (University of Oregon library)

excellent guide to data research management resources--http://library.uoregon.edu/datamanagement/repositories.html

SCITECH GREYLIT DATABASES

Agricola-- http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/Agriculture and agriculture-related database from the USDA arXiv-- http://arxiv.org/ Provides open access to nearly 800,000 e-prints in the area of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.

SCITECH GREYLIT DATABASES II

CiteSeer http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/Digital library and search engine focused on computer and information science. Defense Technical Information Center

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/ A searchable repository for all publicly accessible DOD science and technical research

SCITECH GREYLIT DATABASES III

ENTEWEB World Energy Base https://www.etde.org/etdeweb/basicsearch.jsp?pg=2

International database covering all aspects of energy research. Now publicly available.IAEA’s INIS Database http://www.iaea.org/inis/International Nuclear Information System database on nuclear science and technology

SCITECH GREYLIT DATABASES IV

INSPIRE-HEP http://inspirehep.net/A database of high energy, particle physics and astrophysics . NASA Technical Reports Server http://

nix.nasa.gov/search.jsp?N=125NASA funded aerospace and related research.

SCITECH GREYLIT DATABASES V

Astrophysics Data System (NASA) 1975+

Funded by NASA, ADS maintains 3 bibliographic databases - Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics and Geophysics, and ArXiv Preprints - containing more than 8.5 million records, and digital scans of archival materials. PubMed-- http://

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and on-line books.

SCITECH GREYLIT DATABASES VI

National Technical Information Service- http://www.ntis.gov

Source for unclassified reports from U.S. government and international government agencies. 2 million plus records. Vendor interfaces much more user friendly. Most documents don’t wind up here.

United States Geological Service Publications Warehouse  http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/

Database of USGS funded research reports and publications.

DATABASES EXTRA--

Dozens of open access technical scientific databases with primarily grey information are also available An excellent example—listing of open access databases in geology and marine sciences from the University of New Orleans library http://libguides.uno.edu/content.php?pid=161121&sid=1400581

FUTURE TRENDS SCITECH GREYLIT

Increasing quantity—perhaps decreasing quality

More collaborative—people will be able to manipulate documents in real time

Problems with finding resources will start to be addressed—metadata should be able to provide a solution—financial incentive for government agencies/vendors to tackle this issue

QUESTIONS?

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