Grey literature
NARROWER TERMS
Conference paper
Supporting evidence-informed urban policy and practice: a role for digital collections
Informed decision-making and democratic debate relies on access to urban policy resources. Such access is critical to understanding policy context, analysing path dependencies and critiquing accepted knowledge of what is possible for Australian cities. It can support systematic historical analysis—which can be an important tool...
Journal article
Influence seekers: the production of grey literature for policy and practice
Publishing by organisations has proliferated in the digital era, becoming a key tool in influencing public debate and part of the evidence-base for public policy and practice, yet it is often overlooked as a form of scholarly publishing. This paper looks at the way organisations...
Presentation
Changing the system: advocacy and alliances for access to knowledge
What aspects of the current system hamper the effective flow of knowledge and good governance, how can they be reformed and what advocacy is required?
Dataset
Information and research for policy and practice: survey of producing organisations data
Survey data on 155 organisations producing research and information for policy and practice. The survey aimed to gather data that would help understand how information and research is produced and disseminated as grey literature for impact and influence on public interest issues.
Conference paper
Grey literature publishing in public policy: production and management, costs and benefits
This paper looks at the production of grey literature for public policy and practice where the changes enabled by computers and the internet are causing a hidden revolution in the dissemination of knowledge and evidence.
Conference paper
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Electronic Publishing
Intended to generate discussion and debate on the potential and limitations of openness, this publication addresses the current challenges and opportunities in the ecosystem of Open Science, and explores how to move forward in developing an inclusive system that will work for a much broader...
Report
Intellectual property arrangements
Australia’s intellectual property (IP) arrangements fall short in many ways and improvement is needed across the spectrum of IP rights. IP arrangements need to ensure that creators and inventors are rewarded for their efforts, but in doing so they must: − foster creative endeavour and...
Commentary
How Australia produces $30 billion worth of ‘grey literature’ that we can’t read
Australia spends more than $30 billion a year on projects which produce 'grey literature' - documents which are produced by government departments, academic institutions, private companies and more. But despite all this effort, Australia lacks a standardised mechanism to curate and freely distribute grey literature...
Conference paper
Data neophytes: first steps into the research data abyss
This paper from the VALA conference explores the roles, functions, and possible definitions of data librarians based on two Australian National Data Service (ANDS) case study projects - Australian Policy Online at Swinburne University of Technology and data projects at Monash University. The experiences, challenges...
Conference paper
Digital curation of public policy resources: discovery, access and management for policy and practice
This paper discusses public policy and grey literature use and management and the work of Australian Policy Online (now Analysis & Policy Observatory) in developing its open access document and data digital library. It presents research on use, production and collection of policy publications and...