Grey Literature Network Service

GreyNet also maintains a Listserv and a presence on a number of social media including LinkedIn, Netvibes, Twitter, and Facebook.

It is also engaged in the open source movement and was invited to the 10th Libre Software Meeting 2009[2] in Nantes, France, with a communication on knowledge sharing in the field of grey literature.

[4] This newly established partnership lends to GreyNet a multilateral base, elevating it from a bilateral one that it already shares with a number of ICSTI Members.

To further this end, GreyNet has signed on to the OpenGrey repository and in so doing seeks to preserve and make openly available research results originating in the International Conference Series on Grey Literature.

GreyNet together with INIST-CNRS have designed the format for a metadata record, which encompasses standardized PDF attachments of the full-text conference preprints, PowerPoint presentations, abstracts, biographical notes, and post-publication commentaries.

Comment from Peter Suber, Open Access News (Thursday, January 29, 2009): GreyNet started making its conference proceedings OA through its repository in May 2008.

[8] GreySource provides examples of grey and malin-grey literature to the average net-user (see for instance the University of Queensland list[9]) and in so doing profiles organizations responsible for its production and/or processing.

This series seeks to highlight the state of the art in grey literature by focussing on strategies, benchmarks, good practices, mind maps, and transparency in this field of library and information science.

In 2013, GreyNet began the GreyForum, a Thematic Series of Onsite and Online Seminars and Workshops in the field of Grey Literature.

Conference organization, information consultancy, research, publication, as well as education and training in the field of grey literature are among its objectives.

TextRelease provides Non-Exclusive Rights Agreements to nearly 300 authors, who have published in its Conference Proceedings and/or International Journal on Grey Literature.