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of Unpublished fieldwork - the 'Grey Literature Library'.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
>