Research and knowledge sharing in the field of Grey Literature - 2013 - 2019

The GreyGuide - Repository and Portal to Good Practices and Resources in Grey Literature was launched in 2013 as a collaborative effort between GreyNet International and ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy. This year GreyGuide celebrates 6 years of work aimed at achieving results in line with the needs of the scientific community. GreyGuide is in continuous evolution both as regards the repository and the portal and will come to serve as GreyNet's web access portal. The GreyGuide manages Open Source Repositories and provides a unique resource in the field of grey literature that is long awaited and which responds to the information needs of a diverse, international grey literature community adhering to Open Science guiding principles. This year activities dealing with the GreyGuide have focused on oupgrading the new version of its Portal; omanaging and upgrading teh portal for the GreyForum Series enabling access to material produced by the speakers; oincluding an ORCID metadata field in the BIO Collection in the GreyGuide Repository; oincluding a DOI metadata field for GL-Conference Papers and RGL Resources in Grey Literaure in the GreyGuide Repository; oAccessGrey Project. GreyGuide is GreyNet's Web Access Portal and Repository With the recent addition of the RGL Collection (Resources in Grey Literature), the acquisition of generic, multidisciplinary, and diverse grey literature documents types is underway. Each new metadata, full-text record is assigned a DOI and system generated citation.