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IMPROVING THE AVAILABILITY OF GREY LITERATURE

Stephen Vickers (Assistant, IFLA International Office for UAP)
David N Wood (Head of Collections at the British Library Lending Division)

Interlending Review

ISSN: 0140-2773

Article publication date: 1 April 1982

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Abstract

IFLA's Universal Availability of Publications programme is concerned with highlighting and solving problems concerned with the widest possible availability of recorded knowledge. Its concern includes the improvement of access to grey literature (material not available through normal bookselling channels) at both national and international levels. At the national level centralization linking bibliographic control and availability is advocated. A centralized approach has already been adopted in the UK where the British Library Lending Division has developed a fairly comprehensive collection of report literature, translations, theses, conference proceedings and back up documents to synopsis journals etc. Through its monthly publication, British Reports Translations and Theses, it is also involved with the bibliographic control of grey literature.

Citation

Vickers, S. and Wood, D.N. (1982), "IMPROVING THE AVAILABILITY OF GREY LITERATURE", Interlending Review, Vol. 10 No. 4, pp. 125-130. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017708

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