Although opinions are strong on both sides about working practices and management issues, a consensus is emerging that
grey literature contains important information and must be used.
Despite vigorous protests from its own expert reviewers, 42 % of the documents cited in one chapter of the climate bible are
grey literature rather than peer - reviewed.
The Panel adopted a number of decisions in this regard, including on the treatment
of grey literature and uncertainty, and on a process to address errors in previous reports.
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.
4) IPCC needs to stop citing
grey literature such as WWF and Greenpeace reports with untraceable «data».
Ward does not mention that the IPCC violated its own procedures for
citing grey literature, or that IPCC reviewers had made up stuff, or been ignored.
In England, the Archaeological Data Service in York and Bournemouth University's Archaeological Investigations Project are working to put
grey literature online.
Third, WG2 and WG3 are particularly vulnerable to charges of
using grey literature in part because there are relatively few scientific journals specifically devoted to their subject matter — consequences and mitigation, respectively.
H. Hall, «You'll wish it was all over: the bibliographic control of
grey literature with reference to print football fanzines»» 10 Serials 189.
The accuracy of much of the PR firms to date has been very accurate to date as we have seen by the recent
IPCC grey literature meltdown and the corruption revealed in climategate.
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.
Cunliffe says that his research, such as that on Iron Age Britain, has been affected by difficulties
obtaining grey literature.
What I said was «As authors, we had to report only the best available science (inclusive of a select
few grey literatures as per the rules of procedure) which is «policy - relevant and yet policy - neutral» and that's what we collectively did while writing the Asia Chapter.
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.
Neither is BEST a review of the hockey stick data, just the earth surface temps according to weather station sighting, rather than proxies, and yet the BBC have claimed that this non-peer
review grey literature (as it is at this time) is conclusive proof of ALL AGW alarmist claims.
That analysis demonstrated unequivocally that much of their «scientific history» was derived from the third -
party grey literature descriptions in Wegman et al and M&M, while many of the actual citations given by M&W were clearly not actually read by the authors.
The CISTI staff members who search for
grey literature daily have their own set of links in Internet Explorer» Favorites ``.
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.
We have had previous postings and comments related to this topic on SLAW and I still think the concept of a Canadian
wide grey literature legal depository is worth considering.
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.
The Knowledge Bank is an online library of up to date, published, and
relevant grey literature in core subject areas surrounding couple and family relationships.
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.
I'm not sure it has specifically been covered in the postings and comments that I have read, but the control of
grey literature in academic institutions is included in the concept of institutional repositories.
So, essentially, he provides circular argument of anthropogenic garbage by referencing IPCC 2007 report, yet IPCC has stated they do not do science but put together different scenarios
using grey literature, propaganda, news clipping, and the supposed science K.T. does.
«I became aware that what I was teaching would be out of date without looking at
the grey literature,» says Bradley.
Michael Fulford, one of Bradley's colleagues at the University of Reading, has been piloting a study of
the grey literature about Roman Britain, with similarly exciting results.
Ireland is showcasing a potential way to make
the grey literature more easily available.
Academics who have dug into
the grey literature say it can transform ideas about the past.
Bradley is one of a growing number of academics in the United Kingdom who are doing their digging in the masses of unpublished «
grey literature» generated when commercial archaeologists are brought in to excavate before any sort of construction.
They forge links with universities and are working to get
their grey literature online, says Aitchison.