From Policy to the Stars: The CassiOpeA Experience. CRIS implementation at University of Cassino and S.L.Vincenzo D’Aguanno, Manuela Scaramuzzino, Rosalba CavaliereCassiopea, legendary queen of Ethiopia and one of the most characteristic and recognizable constellations of the northern night sky, is the name of the scientific research catalog for the University of Cassino: CassiOpeA - Cassino Open Archive. The poster, proposed by the University Library System, plays on this guiding role that the products of research, like stars, have in the scientific universe. All this at a particular moment, in which the constant growth of research products available in the institutional repository in OA mode and the full functioning of the validation flow gives us hope for an even greater sharing and reuse of scientific research results through Open Access.Poster Download
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Data Papers provide an Innovative Tool for Information and Data Management: A Use CaseDominic Farace, Joachim SchöpfelIn earlier work dealing with Data Papers, emphasis initially focused on its definition, the construction of a standardized template in compiling its component parts, its further publication, access and data preservation. This was followed by a study seeking to engage the citation and referencing of data papers and the further sharing and reuse of the data described therein. A more recent work within GreyNet’s community of practice addressed the diverse formats used to compile and publish data papers. That study also discussed the automatic generation of data papers, and the differing opinions as to whether they contribute to data, information and/or knowledge production. Drawing on the results of the above-mentioned work, this case study seeks to demonstrate how the data paper provides an innovative tool for information and data management, as part of an “ecosystem” of conference proceedings, journal articles, research data and open repositories. It relies upon GreyNet’s current collection of 45 published datasets and 15 data papers. This study highlights the importance of the human contribution for the writing of data papers and the enrichment of their metadata. To this end, key shared components of GreyNet’s collection of data papers are discussed, namely the stakeholders, linked metadata, open data archiving, preservation, and issues of quality and information rights. The study concludes from a user perspective by addressing the value of data papers drawn from available statistics. The results of this study are expected to move beyond a simple case study to a use case in which the key components of data papers can be implemented in other communities of practice dealing with non-conventional "grey" literature. Poster Download
Grey literature and children’s storytelling: growing up with the citizen of the futureLuisa De BiagiIn the field of literature for childhood and evolutive age, Grey Literature - as non-commercial and non-conventional material - plays a relevant role, regarding heterogeneous and minor documents produced by schools, libraries, bookshops, museums, associations, education labs and playrooms, academic/research boards working on scientific divulgation, didactics and education technologies. Their typology ranges from exhibition catalogues to newsletters and periodicals, comics, brochures and booklets, posters, leaflets, bibliographies, acts and relations of reading promotion inventories, computer games, performing art videos, audiobooks and digital storytelling, reaching the ‘wild land of New Media'. Most of these documents are also scholastic internal products, made by the same students at school (e.g. performing arts videos or classroom reviews). Thus, this production is a precious mirror of new trends not only in narrative, but also in illustration, divulgation and permanent education, due to awareness raising of social politics to children’s rights and protection. In an optics of citizenship education, the limited circulation and difficult retrieval of these materials make it furtherly important for a study at national level. In fact, its target has a very wide range: not only children and teens, but also teachers, librarians, trainers, writers, families, etc. The goal of this work is to underline, through some examples of Italian best practices, that even comics and storytelling for childhood are trusted information resources to be encouraged also in academic libraries collections (archives included) and their Open Science programs. Poster Download
50 Years of INISDobrica SavicThe International Nuclear Information System (INIS) was established in 1970 to foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy. 132 countries and 14 international organisations contribute their national nuclear literature, making it the world's leading open access repository for nuclear science and technology literature.Poster Download
Retrieving Grey Literature with digital content curation: a repertoire of institutional resources on Covid-19Lucia AntonelliSince the beginning of the pandemic emergency, Italian Government and Ministries, Health Institutes, Regions and Local Authorities have produced numerous documents on Covid-19. Thanks to the official resources made available online by public institutions, everyone can freely consult many types of grey literature on this topic: scientific bulletins, statistics, laws, protocols, regulatory measures, reports, guidelines. However, as long as it's easy to come across unofficial or false information on the web, the retrieval of reliable and certified documents become strictly recommended and even essential, especially when a pandemic is underway. In this regard, librarians can make a concrete contribution: they have always known the importance of official data and information, long before 2016, when "post-truth" was declared word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. Librarians own the appropriate professional skills to guide users towards the retrieval of official documents and, thanks to the so-called content curation activity, they can select, evaluate, organize and share web resources through specific digital tools and web platforms. In this background, with the aim of facilitating the retrieval of a specific type of grey literature, such as official documents on topics related to the pandemic, it seemed appropriate to create the “Digital Repertoire of institutional Italian web resources on Covid-19”. The repertoire, realized by the “Library of the National Register of Town Clerks” using the content curation system "Wakelet", has been published since April 2020 and collects over fifty institutional websites that publish health bulletins, reports, government documents, guidelines, protocols, statistics and more. Thus, digital repertoires that foster the retrieval of official documentation published in institutional websites may be classified as grey literature as well. These reference tools, created according to the principles of content curation, neutralize unofficial information along with the online fake news and, by extension, stem the risks of the web environment allowing the acquisition of digital competencies for a conscious citizenship.Poster Download
Photographs are today’s Newfound Grey: A Case Study of the Madones ProjectVassilis MathioudakisThe field of grey literature includes both textual and non-textual materials not controlled by commercial publishing. Over the years, multiple document types have been listed and their place defined within this field of information. Photographs however have for some reason escaped attention and are in some way only implied. In the past decade, studies have focused on the place of research data as it underlies the analyses drawn in related textual documents. This development is referred to as enhanced publication. Just as research data serves in this way, so too do photographs. They not only enhance and verify textual content, but they also qualify as research data that are indexed, archived, and preserved apart from the articles and manuscripts in which they were originally published. This conference poster seeks to illustrate the application of photographs as a grey literature document type both related and unrelated to textual content by way of the Madones Project. This project comprises a series of photographs taken of mothers and their children in refugee camps some of which were also published within newspaper and magazine articles.Poster Download
Lessons in grey literature: Applying study results to library practiceKristen Cooper et al.Working with grey literature (GL) in their libraries, the authors bring a breadth of experience with GL, including archiving GL and helping users locate GL for use in their teaching and research, such as systematic reviews, and conducted three research studies focusing on discoverability, preservation and faculty perceptions and use of GL. A survey of 100+ article indexes and 100+ institutional repositories (IRs) found GL in most resources but nearly all lacked comprehensive inclusion or adequate methods to limit to GL. Overall searching in the IRs was rudimentary at best. A Web survey of faculty members in a wide variety of disciplines revealed that they are creating, using, and citing many types of GL. Faculty discover GL most often via Google Scholar and professional contacts and the most-used types were conference papers, theses and dissertations, and technical reports. Interviews with faculty members in numerous subject areas found that in addition to using GL, many created it, often for lay audiences. GL was used to supplement textbooks, communicate with community partners, and in other nontraditional settings. Searching for GL was a particular challenge. In the poster the authors discuss recommendations developed over the course of this research for ways librarians can support GL. These include but are not limited to enhancing web stability of grey literature via depositing grey literature in institutional repositories or subject repositories, thoughtfully and purposely emphasizing new and diverse voices, raising awareness of GL’s role in systematic reviews and promoting its use in teaching.Poster Download
My APO+: the evolution of a public policy repositoryBrigid Van WanrooyThe Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO) is Australia and New Zealand's largest open access digital repository of public policy. APO curates policy and research resources to support evidence-informed policy. APO was established in 2002 at Swinburne University of Technology and currently holds over 45,000 resources. Having been resourced by ad-hoc research grants and partnerships, APO is seeking innovative ways to become a self-sustainable public good. In October 2020, My APO+ membership service was launched. My APO+ offers members a range of features to curate and manage policy and research resources, and to stay up to date with the latest releases, which will be detailed in this poster.Poster Download
ISTI Open Portal: a tool for Open AccessArtini, Candela, Giannini, Manghi, MolinovThe poster features ISTI Open Portal (IOP). IOP was developed within the Institute of Information Science and Technology (ISTI) of CNR with the aim of collecting, enriching and making visible the scientific production of the Institute. The poster shows the software architecture, workflow and work organization within the institutional regulatory framework.Poster Download
From Policy to the Stars: The CassiOpeA Experience. CRIS implementation at University of Cassino and S.L.Vincenzo D’Aguanno, Manuela Scaramuzzino, Rosalba CavaliereCassiopea, legendary queen of Ethiopia and one of the most characteristic and recognizable constellations of the northern night sky, is the name of the scientific research catalog for the University of Cassino: CassiOpeA - Cassino Open Archive. The poster, proposed by the University Library System, plays on this guiding role that the products of research, like stars, have in the scientific universe. All this at a particular moment, in which the constant growth of research products available in the institutional repository in OA mode and the full functioning of the validation flow gives us hope for an even greater sharing and reuse of scientific research results through Open Access.Poster Download
GreyGuide: an example of Open Access Publishing in Grey LiteratureStefania Biagioni, Carlo Carlesi, Dominic FaraceThe poster shows the goals achieved in the last 5 years, the progress, new features and new resources made available by GreyGuide in support of Open Access Publishing. GreyNet’s web-access portal (i) and repository (ii) is the GreyGuide – an internet resource that is fully open access compliant, launched in 2013 as a collaborative effort between GreyNet International and CNR-ISTI, NeMIS Lab, Pisa, Italy. In 2015, GreyNet International (iii) carried out an online survey among its stakeholders in order to determine their use of its sustained information resources (iv) . This was later followed-up by a data paper, describing the results of that survey data published in the DANS Easy Archive (v) . Now five years on, having benefited from technical developments, the migration of hundreds of metadata full-text records, and the addition of enriched fields and functionality, the GreyGuide offers GreyNet a testbed from which to map and measure its capacity in open access publishing. The population of this study is drawn from digital resources accessible via both the GreyGuide Portal and Repository.
(i) http://greyguide.isti.cnr.it/ (ii) http://greyguiderep.isti.cnr.it/ (iii) http://www.greynet.org/ (iv) Farace D., Frantzen J., Biagioni S., and Carlesi C, (2016). Leveraging Grey Literature – Capitalizing on Value and the Return on Investment: A Cumulative Case Study. In: Seventeenth International Conference on Grey Literature - A New Wave of Textual and Non-Textual Grey Literature. – Amsterdam, December 2015 vol. 17, pp. 165-173. https://doi.org/10.26069/greynet-2019-000.036-gg (v) Farace D., Frantzen J., Biagioni S., and Carlesi C., GreyNet International, (2018). Data from “Leveraging Grey Literature: Capitalizing on Value and the Return on Investment. https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zbf-kqwjPoster Download
DIY Data Creation as Scholarly CommunicationAndrea MarshallZines have the unique distinction of existing both within print and digital cultures. Zines were conceived as analog infrastructures that in turn served as epistemic objects; these objects functioned as artifacts that explicated and amplified the ideologies and beliefs of multiple communities of practice. These zine subcultures, while originally situated within arts, music, and activist contexts, soon evolved to include and reflect the values of diverse and sundry populations. One could also posit that Zines served as early prototypes for social networking sites with the emphasis on an DIY ethos, a collapsing of conventional amateur/expert hierarchies and the use of creative cognitive tools to articulate often subversive and postmodern principles and beliefs. Social media sites perform as both metanarratives and paratextual architectures in contemporary digital cultures. Scholarly dialogues that occur on social media sites often have collaborative and communal informalities that generate new epistemologies and ways of knowing. Zines and social media sites construct themselves as loci of scholarly communication that dismantle conventional power dynamics. In this way both social media sites and zines function as grey literature that act as historical records. They also function as DIY makerspaces of data creation that increase accessibility to much larger populations due to lack of conventional barriers such as bibliographic databases and textbooks. Zines and social media sites establish DIY data creation as a revolutionary methodological apparatus that both increases awareness of evolving knowledge structures and expands participatory research access to lay persons. Works Cited Hays, A. (2020). A Citation Analysis about Scholarship on Zines. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 8(1). Franklin, I. (2020). Grey matter/literature/area: Bucketfull of Brains, fanzine form and cultural formation. Punk & Post-Punk, 9(2), 247-265. Fife, K. (2019). Not for you? Ethical implications of archiving zines. Punk & Post Punk, 8(2), 227-242. Savic, D. (2020, January). Digital Transformation and Grey Literature Professionals. In CONFERENCE ON GREY LITERATURE AND REPOSITORIES (p. 14). Smith, D. R. (2017). Confessions of a science blogaholic: Highs, lows, and increasing liabilities. Frontiers in Communication, 1, 15. Watson, A., & Bennett, A. (2020). The felt value of reading zines. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 1-35.Poster Download
Vincenzo D’Aguanno, Manuela Scaramuzzino, Rosalba Cavaliere
Cassiopea, legendary queen of Ethiopia and one of the most characteristic and recognizable constellations of the northern night sky, is the name of the scientific research catalog for the University of Cassino: CassiOpeA - Cassino Open Archive. The poster, proposed by the University Library System, plays on this guiding role that the products of research, like stars, have in the scientific universe. All this at a particular moment, in which the constant growth of research products available in the institutional repository in OA mode and the full functioning of the validation flow gives us hope for an even greater sharing and reuse of scientific research results through Open Access.
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