A new generation of grey literature: The impact of advanced information technologies |
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| Authors: | Bonnie C Carroll Gladys A Cotter |
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| Institution: | (1) NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program Code JTT, 20546 Washington, D.C., U.S.A.;(2) the Information International Associates, Inc., P.O. Box 4219, 37831 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | A basic challenge of the Weinberg Report addressed the question of information overload. The Weinberg Panel was extremely
concerned with the proliferation of scientific literature and the specific issue of how to sift through reams of data to find
the “gems” of wisdom, or that which is truly new and useful. In the early 1960s when the report was being written, computers
were not part of the information access and retrieval infrastructure. Writing twenty-five years later, in 1988, Dr. Weinberg
recognized that the panel had not adequately taken into account the impact of the computer and the growth of the information
industry. Today we have a new world of microcomputers and networked information which is fundamentally shifting the paradigm
of scientific communication. We have new capabilities, including electronic publishing, visualization techniques, even virtual
reality. Without getting into a great debate about the definition of “grey literature,” the main characteristics have traditionally
been described as: rapid publication, wariable formats, no public peer review, and no commercial source of general availability.
With networked information and multi-media technology, the new world of grey literature is emerging with an interesting set
of new and revived challenges. This article looks at the most interesting characteristics, and based on them, presents the
thesis that in the 1990s we are facing a new generation of “grey literature”. |
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