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The British are ahead of both America and Australia with the issue of grey
literature on-line. See the e-mail below: I tried to interest Western
Australian heritage but just got bureaucratic stonewalling.
Gaye
We're pleased to announce the release of 16 new reports within the Library
of Unpublished fieldwork - the 'Grey Literature Library'. This brings the
current number of reports up to 360.
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/greylit/index.cfm
These new reports are typically diverse in nature and size, ranging from a
short note about fieldwork at a 2nd World War gun emplacement in Lewes,
Sussex( http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/greylit/details.cfm?ID=1379)
to field walking that recovered Roman artefacts in the area of Settrington
in Ryedale
(http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/greylit/details.cfm?ID=1376
The reports in this latest batch include material from a number from units
the OASIS data supply form, such as AOC Archaeology, Foundations Archaeology
and Wessex Archaeology together with first-time submission reports from East
Sussex County Council, The Heritage Network and Sutton Archaeological
Services. All can be consulted online
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Thompson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 7:27 AM
Subject: Julie's query
> Mike Stewart suggested a web-based database for grey literature, and one
> is badly needed. Perhaps ACRA could support this. If every contractor set
> aside a small amount from the background research section of their
> contract to support this, this could generate some funds. Don't know how
> an audit would look at this, but it seems to me to be a legitimate use for
> background research funds and a legitimate function for ACRA or possibly
> even ROPA? It could be set up as a subscription service if there were a
> question about this -- i.e. you contribute on a per-contract basis,
> including your report if it's not already on file, via a standard
> subscription for research.
>
> Educational and Government institutions might have some fiscal
> difficulties contribution to this on a 'per-contract' basis, but it could
> be structured as scholarship or internship program, which might, or might
> not, satisfy institutional bean-counters.
>
> Does anybody remember NADB? I didn't think so -- the agencies doing the
> work are not supporting it. We need something that works.
>
> Tim T.
> Like Mike, I've got boxes of grey stuff from T-Bird
>
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