Exploring Next Generation Grey - Dobrica Savić, Nuclear Information Section, NIS-IAEA, United Nations
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Here is a question to all of us. Is grey the literature of tomorrow? Not a simple question and also not a simple answer. It is not a simple question because it might have different connotations depending on the viewers perspective and
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understanding. For example, are we with this question in fact doubting the existence of grey literature in the future? In other words, will there be any grey literature in future? Maybe we are proposing something very dramatic, such as that all literature might eventually become grey.
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Or are we talking about something else like some shade of grey literature in between these two extremes? As we have all probably already heard the old saying that no one is a prophet in their own land, I did not try to offer my own view or
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interpretation of grey literature future. So instead, two questions were incorporated in our GL 2021 survey. Survey questions were the following. First, will the majority of future academic, scientific and technical literature be grey?
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And the second one, will the management of grey literature converge in future with other literature information and data? So let's look at the replies received. Will the majority of future academic, scientific and technical literature be grey?
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In total, 39 replies were received. 15 were positive, agree or strongly agree, while 13 were negative, disagree or strongly disagree. 11 were not sure to agree or to disagree. If we compare 15 positive into 13 negative replies,
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we can see that a small advantage was given to a notion that the majority of future academic, scientific and technical literature will be grey. However, it is not really a significant difference to make any conclusions.
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So the only conclusion that we can make is that the grey literature respondents were split in the middle about the answers to this question. Looking at the comments left in regard to this question, the following generalization could be made. The amount of grey literature will continue to grow.
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Grey literature importance will continue to increase due to its volume. Current academic mindset leans towards white literature. Increase of open-access literature does not necessarily means greater impact of grey literature.
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However, some respondents believe that all grey literature will eventually disappear and become white, which I tend to disagree with. The next statement was that the management of future grey and other literature information and data will converge.
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40 replies were received. 29 were positive, agree or strongly agree, while only 3 were negative, disagree or strongly disagree. 8 were not sure to agree or to disagree.
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Based on the replies, a great majority of professionals that took part in this survey believe that the management of future grey literature and other literature information and data will converge. Reasons for this mentioned in comments include financial reasons, amount of information produced,
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increased use of automatic tools and artificial intelligence, complex IT infrastructure required, and necessary training to cover processing of different types of literature. One of the most interesting and worrisome comments came from a user who said that
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there is a risk of dropping libraries out of the grey literature management as it is happening in some instances with data management. Can the future of grey literature and its management be defined? Is it possible for any of us to say where information technology and information management
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will be heading in the next 5 to 10 years? The obvious answer is no. However, I believe that we can help create the future that is not only good for us, but also for our grey literature users.
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We need to get ready for the future that will be vastly different from the present. Change is coming. We need to get ready. Thank you very much.