Furthermore, we searched
for grey literature, hand - searched four journals and snowballed for relevant references.
Health Management Information Consortium and OpenGrey will be searched
for grey literature.
The CISTI staff members who search
for grey literature daily have their own set of links in Internet Explorer» Favorites ``.
To accept a role
for grey literature at the IPCC, provided it is properly and critically assessed by the authors, is not to say that peer - reviewed publications should not dominate the assessments.
Not exact matches
«I reject the concept that
grey literature is unpublished,» says Deni Seymour, who worked in U.S. contract archaeology
for more than 25 years and
for a decade co-ran the Lone Mountain Archaeological Services in Albuquerque, N.M.
Grey literature, she says, «is no less available than many obscure journals and master's theses.»
The IPCC must urgently review its policies
for hiring lead authors — and I would have thought that not only should biased «
grey literature» be rejected, but campaigners from NGOs should not be allowed to join the lead author group and thereby review their own work.
That's why a lot of people are now trying to sell the idea that the IAC review has called
for an outright ban on
grey literature.
The BT approach uses values estimated from existing studies that are published in academic or
grey literature as an approximation
for valuing environmental services and social welfare of carbon offset projects.
Grey area indicates the 98th and 90th percentiles (light / dark
grey) of the
literature (
for references, see Figure 4).
There is a big difference between a private company employing a leading expert, and the IPCC employing a political activist who reviewed and published his own work
grey literature (non peer reviewed) which amounted to little more than an advert
for his own industry and by doing so helped push the IPCC's political agenda and fill his own bank balance, but also failed to provide any independent scientific evidence of a way forward.
IPCC authors added a
grey envelope around the AR4 envelope, presumably to give rhetorical support
for their false claim about models and observations; however, this envelope did not occur in AR4 or any peer reviewed
literature.
From the caption to Figure 2 in SM's headpost: «IPCC authors added a
grey envelope around the AR4 envelope, presumably to give rhetorical support
for their false claim about models and observations; however, this envelope did not occur in AR4 or any peer reviewed
literature.»
What's wrong with the IPCC goes far deeper than the question of the proportion of
grey literature or quotas
for non-white contributors.
The face of
grey literature and in particular the efforts required to collect them have changed significantly since the internet has made electronic publishing the norm
for a large number of information producers.
While other national libraries may continue to add the majority of traditional
grey literature types to their collections, CISTI has moved in many cases to a just - in - time model of document supply
for such document types as standards, patents and theses.
But in this age of the electronic resource,
for those of us who work in the NRC Information Centres directly with researchers, often its just as easy and as much fun
for us to find that piece of
grey literature ourselves than to send the order in to our Document Delivery group.
For example, how the article has been used in patents, theses or other «
grey literature» often available on the web.
i am sympathetic to the desire of the holding library to leverage their «popular» items to enhance access to less popular items in their collection (tying nicely in to slaw's «
grey literature» discussion of the previous week), but rather than impose a contract on the recipients of the copies, a more preferable model would be the one used
for the alberta law collection.
Although it's not quite
grey literature, the announcement by the UK's OPSI (Office of Public Sector Information) that it has has started providing RSS feeds
for Acts and Statutory Instruments
for UK, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales is a case of nice timing
for this week's theme on SLAW.
I also am no expert on
grey literature, but I think due to the difficulty in categorizing (and finding) it (especially
for law - related GL), and due to its relative importance, I wonder if this as a small example that illustrates the important role that MLS / MISt / MIS - trained librarians can play (compared to a non-trained information seeker).
Analysis & Policy Observatory (also known as APO) is a not -
for - profit open access subject repository or digital library, specialising in public policy and practice
grey literature and journal articles, mainly from Australia and New Zealand, with some coverage of other countries.
In order to evaluate the evidence
for ST in the treatment of recurrent and chronic depression we conducted a systematic review of the peer - reviewed
literature using bibliographic databases,
grey literature, hand search and expert consultation (Prospero register: CRD42016039914).
Finally, the inclusion criteria
for this review means some potential articles may have been excluded, such as
grey literature and studies published in languages other than English.