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Twenty-First International Conference on Grey Literature Open Science Encompasses New Forms of Grey Literature German National Library of Science and Technology Hannover, Germany ● October 22-23, 2019 Program and Conference Sponsors GL21 Program and Conference Bureau Javastraat 194-HS, 1095 CP Amsterdam, Netherlands www.textrelease.com ▪ [email protected] TextRelease Tel. +31-20-331.2420 CIP GL21 Proceedings Twentieth-First International Conference on Grey Literature “Open Science Encompasses New Forms of Grey Literature”. - German National Library of Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany, October 22-23, 2019 / compiled by D. Farace and J. Frantzen ; GreyNet International, Grey Literature Network Service. – Amsterdam : TextRelease, February 2020. – 173 p. – Author Index. – (GL Conference Series, ISSN 1386-2316 ; No. 21). TIB (DE), DANS-KNAW (NL), CVTISR (SK), EBSCO (USA), ISTI CNR (IT), KISTI (KR), NIS IAEA (UN), NTK (CZ), and the University of Florida (USA) are Corporate Authors and Associate Members of GreyNet International. These proceedings contain full text conference papers presented during the two days of plenary, panel, and poster sessions. The papers appear in the same order as in the conference program book. Included is an author index with the names of contributing authors and researchers along with their biographical notes. A list of 55 participating organizations as well as sponsored advertisements are likewise included. ISBN 978-90-77484-37-1 © TextRelease, 2020 2 Foreword O P E N S C I E N C E E NCOMPASSES N EW F O R M S O F G R E Y L ITERATURE For more than a quarter century, grey Literature communities have explored ways to open science to other methods of reviewing, publishing, and making valuable information resources publicly accessible. This Twenty-First International Conference on Grey Literature seeks to demonstrate how the principles of science and advancements in information technology have impacted the field of grey literature and in turn how grey literature by implementing these has contributed to the open science movement. Open science is defined as the movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring society1. Grey literature by definition seeks to make publications produced on all levels of government, academics, and business openly accessible different from those controlled by commercial publishing. As such the open science movement incorporates the work carried out by grey literature communities and renders an even broader framework encompassing newer forms of grey in both textual and non-textual formats. Open science encompasses the life and physical sciences as well the social sciences and humanities as does grey literature. Open science recognizes the value of grey literature in the process of knowledge generation and as such acknowledges contributions made by researchers, authors, and their communities of practice. Open science changes the way research is done and allows for convergence with the field of grey literature. It is within the open science movement that grey literature and its wealth of information resources are valued and properly exploited for society as a whole. Dominic Farace Amsterdam, GREYNET INTERNATIONAL FEBRUARY 2020 3 GL2 1 Program and Conference Sponsors TIB, Germany German National Library of Science and Technology ‒ Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library CVTISR, Slovak Republic Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information KISTI, Korea Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information EBSCO, USA NIS-IAEA, United Nations Nuclear Information Section; International Atomic Energy Agency 4 GL21 Program and Conference Sponsors ISTI, Italy Institute of Information Science and Technologies National Research Council of Italy, CNR DANS, Netherlands Data Archiving and Networked Services; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences NTK, Czech Republic National Library of Technology UF, USA George A. Smathers Libraries University of Florida UW-Milwaukee-SOIS, USA School of Information Studies (SOIS) University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 5 GL21 Program Committee Margret Plank Chair German National Library of Science and Technology, Germany Henk Harmsen Dobrica Savić Data Archiving and Nuclear Information Section, Networked Services, International Atomic Netherlands Energy Agency, UN Ján Turňa Hana Vyčítalová Slovak Centre of Scientific National Library of and Technical Information Technology, Slovak Republic Czech Republic Silvia Giannini Stefania Biagioni Institute of Information NeMIS Research Science and Technologies Laboratory, CNR ISTI-CNR, Italy Italy Tomas A. Lipinski Meg Tulloch University of Wisconsin U.S. Government Milwaukee, USA Accountability Office USA Marcus Vaska Plato L. Smith Alberta Health Services University of Florida; Canada George A. Smathers Libraries, USA Dominic Farace Joachim Schöpfel GreyNet International University of Lille Netherlands France 6 Table of Contents Foreword 3 Program and Conference Sponsors 4 Program Committee 6 Program Outline 9 Program Chair, Conference Welcome, and Keynote Address 10 Conference Program 11 Program Opening Session 13 Session One – Open Science Principles promote the field of Grey Literature 21 Session Two – Confronting Obstacles and Challenges to Open Access 67 Poster Session and Sponsor Showcase 130 Session Three – Open Resources for Education In Library And Information Science 148 Info Adverts TIB, German National Library of Science and Technology, Germany 8 INIS, The International Nuclear Information System 12 DANS, Your 7 steps to sustainable data 20 NTK, National Library of Technology, Czech Republic 52 ISTI-CNR, Institute of Information Science and Technologies 66 PsycEXTRA via EBSCO 112 CVTISR, Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information 128 GreyGuide, Research and Knowledge Sharing 129 Ebsco Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (LISTA) 138 KISTI, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information 147 TGJ, The Grey Journal Subscription Form 2020 164 Appendices List of Participating Organizations 165 GL2020 Conference Announcement 166 GL2020 Call for Papers 167 Author information 168 Index to Authors 173 7 Program Outline DAY 1 - Tuesday, 22 October DAY 2 - Wednesday, 23 October Leibnizhaus, Holzmarkt 5, Hannover, Germany Leibnizhaus, Holzmarkt 5, Hannover, Germany Registration Desk Open 08:30-09:00 Registration Desk Open 9:00-9:30 Coffee and Tea Service Coffee and Tea Service Opening Session 9:00-10:30 Poster Session, 9:30-11:30 Sponsor Showcase Welcome, Keynote, and Opening Addresses Presentations and Exhibits Morning Break 10:30-11:00 Coffee and Tea Service Available 09:30-11:30 Session One 11:00-13:00 Special Panel Session 11:30-13:00 Open Science Principles promote The Open Science Publishing Flood the field of Grey Literature and Collaborative Authoring Lunch 13:00-14:00 Lunch 13:00-14:00 Session Two 14:00-16:00 Session Three 14:00-15:30 Confronting Obstacles and Challenges to Open Resources for Education in Open Access Library and Information Science Afternoon Break 16:00-16:30 Pause 15:30-15:45 Introduction to Posters 16:30-17:30 Closing Session 15:45-16:30 Poster Briefings Wrap-up, Poster Prize, Conference Handoff, Farewell 17:00 Leibnizhaus Hannover Post-Conference Tour TIB Library 9 Program Chair, Conference Welcome, and Keynote Address Program Chair Welcome Address Keynote Address Margret Plank Prof. Dr. Sören Auer Barbara Rühling Head of the Competence Center for Director of the German National CEO at Book Sprints Ltd. Non-Textual Materials, TIB Library of Science and Technology Berlin, Germany Margret Plank is currently the Head Prof. Auer was appointed Professor Barbara Rühling is the Keynote of the Competence Centre for Non- of Data Science and Digital Speaker at this year’s Twenty- Textual Materials at the German Libraries at Leibniz Universität First International Conference on National Library of Science and Hannover and Director of the TIB in Grey Literature that deals with Technology in Hannover (Germany). 2017. Prof. Auer has made Open Science and Grey The aim of the Competence Centre important contributions to Literature. The title of her for Non-Textual Materials is to semantic technologies, knowledge defining presentation reads develop emerging tools and services engineering and information ‘Unbreaking our Knowledge that actively support users in the systems. He is the author (resp. co- Sharing Workflows?’ scientific work process enabling non- author) of over 100 peer-reviewed textual material such as audiovisual scientific publications. He has Barbara Rühling has been the media, 3D objects and research data received several awards, including CEO of Book Sprints since 2016, to be published, found and made an ERC Consolidator Grant from and focuses on streamlining our available on a permanent basis as the European Research Council, a service and workflow, developing easily as textual documents. SWSA ten-year award, the ESWC 7- new formats and diversifying the Previously she was responsible for year Best Paper Award, and the company’s client base. Previously Information Competence and OpenCourseware Innovation the lead facilitator at Book Sprints Usability at the TIB. She has also Award. He has led several large for three years, she continues to worked as a researcher at the collaborative research projects, facilitate Sprints. As a facilitator, Institute of Information Studies and such as the EU H2020 flagship Barbara’s background in
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