The Incorporation of Grey Literature into a newly formalized Research Services Program
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Today, I will be presenting on behalf of the GrayNet Education and Training Committee about graylitguides.com. For this presentation, I'll be sharing information about and results from the GrayNet Education and Training Survey, which was distributed earlier this year.
00:21
I will highlight what's new on the Graylit Guides website, and lastly, provide some next steps for the committee. But first up, here's some background information about the website and the survey. For those who were not aware, our committee curates a website of gray literature resources at graylitguides.com.
00:42
Last year, we migrated to a new platform from Blogspot to WordPress. We refreshed the look and updated the content with some new resources. But in order to improve and enhance the user experience, we knew it would be important to hear from members of the community. So the purpose of the survey was twofold.
01:03
One, learn which education and training materials that others have found to be helpful, and two, obtain general feedback about the website's content and organization. Here is a screenshot of the current iteration of the homepage along with the URL.
01:24
And apparently, it's on this auto forward. Time permitting, we'll be able to jump out to the website as long as there's interest and time. But more about the survey methodology.
01:41
We use the Qualtrics platform to create, disseminate, and analyze the results. And as previously alluded, the invitation to participate was sent to members and affiliates of GrayNet International. We kept the survey open for about two months from May to June of this year, and three email reminders were also distributed during that time.
02:02
We received only 31 responses that we deemed complete. The other responses were for individuals who maybe opened the survey but did not answer any questions or only partially completed the questions. And there were some other responses that were spammy in nature.
02:21
Regardless of the low response rate, we still received lots of helpful information. So thank you to GrayNet International for the participation incentive and for assisting with the survey distribution, and of course, a big thank you to all who participated in the survey.
02:41
So who were the survey participants? Most were information professionals, which includes the students studying in this profession, followed by faculty, non-information students, and so on. The median time spent education and educating and training on the topic
03:00
of gray literature was between 11 and 15 years, so mostly seasoned veterans. And as you can see from this bar chart, the recipients of their training were mostly non-informational professional students and then faculty.
03:23
So moving on to the website recommendations, we're going to look at these three categories, new resources, website structure and organization, and requested information types. So first up, new content recommendations.
03:40
Here we have a table that outlines the various resource types that were recommended from the survey. In the middle column, we have the total submissions and then minus any duplicated resources in the right column. Overall, we received 107 recommended resource minus the duplicates for a total of 58 resources.
04:01
The most common resource type that was suggested falls under this online Pathfinder portal category. Otherwise known as resource guides or lib guides, which is provided by the Springshare Company. The most duplicated entries were related to Grana International and the National Repository of Gray Literature.
04:22
And lastly, there were three books that received multiple recommendations. And you can see we have some of the authors down here. Disclaimer, Sara Bonato is a part of our committee. Okay, next up, here are some of the major additions to the website.
04:42
We've added the GrayNet resources, including the Gray Journal, the Gray Guide, Gray Literature in Library and Information Studies, and the National Repository of Gray Literature. Moreover, we added some tools that help provide context and explanations, like the CADF Gray Matters tool and the ACODS checklist.
05:03
Lastly, while the website still has an English language bias, we're slowly trying to increase representation of guides in different languages and different countries. To the next category, website structure and organization.
05:20
In the survey, respondents asked for more narrative structure that guided them through the content. So we relabeled the introduction area to start here. And this revised section now includes an introductory video, provides a definition for gray literature, and a discussion of different document types, and provides a select annotated list of online guides.
05:46
Continuing on this website structure category, we've updated the original format, which was just a simplified list, to be an annotated bibliography or an annotated list. We changed the original grouping that was by country to grouping by topic where it was appropriate.
06:07
We've combined these similar pages that were labeled searching for gray literature and systematic reviews onto a single page with some of the major resources. We've added a separate page for theses and dissertation sources.
06:21
And lastly, we expanded and renamed the other resources tab to be further resources. And now the section includes freely available webinars and online courses, as well as a section for gray literature research. To the next category, a wish list.
06:41
This was pulled from the survey, new information types that were requested and hopefully will add to the website. It includes infographics syllabi training guides for gray lit beginners, complete lecture videos with slides, related videos and tutorials, as well as data papers.
07:07
So our next steps, we may contact the survey respondents who indicated an interest in further discussions. We want to add new video introduction in the context of the gray lit guides website.
07:20
Of course, ongoing content revisions and more. And even though the survey is closed, we are always welcoming of new ideas and suggestions and so on behalf of my esteemed colleagues of the education and training committee, and hopefully I can answer some questions right now.
07:42
I have the chair's email address here, David Baxter, who is also, I believe, joining us, as well as Margo and Marcus.