ACQNET: GrayLIT Network Now Available

Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:50:41 -0400
From: Gerry Mckiernan (Iowa State U.) <GMCKIERN_at_gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Subject: GrayLIT Network Now Available
     
                   _ GrayLIT Network Now Available_ 

       I recently learned that the GrayLIT Network is now available

                    [http://www.osti.gov/graylit/]
 
GrayLIT Network provides a portal for over 100,000 FULL_TEXT technical 
reports located at the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration (NASA). Collections in the GrayLIT collaboration 
include the DOE Information Bridge; the Defense Technical Information 
Center (DTIC) Report Collection; the EPA National Environmental 
Publications Internet Site (NEPIS); the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Reports; 
and the NASA Langley Technical Reports.

[ http://www.osti.gov/promo/pressgrayfed.html ] 

The U.S. Interagency Gray Literature Working Group, "Gray Information 
Functional Plan," 18 January 1995, defines gray literature as "foreign 
or domestic open source material that usually is available through 
specialized channels and may not enter normal channels or systems of 
publication, distribution, bibliographic control, or acquisition by 
booksellers or subscription agents." 

Both "gray" literature and "grey" literature are commonly used to 
describe this body of information. The decision often hinges on 
country of origin for the literature, or alternately country of 
publication. 

[ http://www.osti.gov/graylit/whatsnew.html ]

Developed by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific 
and Technical Information (OSTI), in collaboration with DOD/DTIC, 
NASA, and EPA, the GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical 
report information generated through federally funded research 
and development projects. The GrayLIT Network was released in 
early response to recommendations from a May 2000 Workshop held 
at the National Academy of Sciences. 

[http://www.osti.gov/graylit/about.html ]

GrayLIT Network ... [is] being made available to the public in 
partnership with the Government Printing Office through GPO 
Access (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs). These tools are 
maintained by OSTI, a part of the DOE Office of Science. The 
Director of OSTI is Dr. Walter L. Warnick, (301) 903-7996.

[ http://www.osti.gov/promo/pressgrayfed.html ]

I initially learned about GrayLIT Network as a result of a response 
to a previous posting  [Thanks, Valerie]

    [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0008/0008.html ] 

requesting recommendations for "New Products in Grey Literature," 
a review colum I write for the _International Journal on Grey 
Literature_ 

[ http://www.mcb.co.uk/ijgl.htm ]

published by MCB University Press and edited by Julia Gelfand, 
Applied Sciences Librarian, University of California, Irvine.

BTW: My latest column, "arXiv.org: The Los Alamos National 
Laboratory E-Print Server" was published earlier this month  
IJGL (1(3): 127-138]

Recommendations for Any and All services, systems, or software 
that relate to the management, access, and control of Grey Literature  
for review in a future column are Most Welcome! [Of course, I will 
be reviewing GreyLIT!]

/Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck_at_iastate.edu