TY  - Audio

AU  - Paul Barclay



PY  - 2013
T1  - Grey literature: digital scholarship and digital dust
PB  - Big Ideas


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-32980
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/32980

AB  - It’s called  grey literature because it’s typically unregulated and  beyond the scrutiny and control of the peer reviewed journals or public  service processes. But is grey literature credible? Does it genuinely  add to our store of knowledge?  and how much of this digital scholarship  will become digital dust?
Websites by their very nature tend to  focus on the here and now with little attention given to long term  access and storage. Capturing, assessing and keeping all this content is  becoming a big issue for researchers, librarians and archivists
ER  -