Grey Matters in the Worl of Networked Information (GL5)

This conference will take place in Amsterdam, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences on 4-5 December 2003.

Currently, researchers, web editors, e-publishers, and other producers of grey literature are not just additional links in the information chain. Instead, they have become the architects of a roadmap of networked information in which new types and formats of grey predominate. New methods and mediums for storing, retrieving, and distributing grey literature have created new uses and applications for these resources. Academic institutions, government organisations, business and industry have come to view themselves as frontline publishers of grey and networked information. Their reports, working papers, programs and policies become e-published and available in networked environments to unlimited audiences.

While the exploitation of these resources are not primarily for economic gain, they do augment the knowledge and information bases in specialised fields, empower decisionmaking in local and national government, enable forecasts for business and industry, and impact public opinion of net citizens. GL5 seeks to focus on these and other grey matters in the world of networked information. At the same time, GL5 aspires to celebrate a decade of conferences promoting research in the field of grey literature.

Conference themes are as follows:

The economy of grey.

Grey journalism and the media.

Research is grey dependent.

Perish or publish grey.

Grey versus commercial communication.

Search engines are growing grey.

Grey benchmarks in collection development.

Roadmap of grey literature systems and services.

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