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The New York Academy of MedicineGrey Literature Report: The New York Academy of Medicine Grey Literature Report
Slide2: Background and Format Gray, Brad H. 1998; first published in 1999
Electronic with paper copies in the library
Quarterly, Feb, May, August, November
Reports listed alphabetically by organizations; links to e-format
English only, less than 2 years old
Audience: Audience NYAM staff
People involved in:
public health
health andamp; science policy
health of minorities
special populations
NLM
Subscribers, Medlib-l list-serv
Collection methods: Collection methods Organizations and items are identified through email alerts from the organizations, serendipitous reading, current awareness sites and staff referrals.
Organizations are scanned for new publications at least once during the quarterly schedule of the report.
Paper copies of most items are acquired for the library collection, either ordered or printed from the web site.
Types of organizations
Private, advocacy, government
Cataloging: Cataloging URLs are added to bibliographic records
Complete TOCs are added
High percentage of records are unique items in OCLC
Individual titles of each series are cataloged separately
Cataloged records included in OCLC and NML’s catalog (LOCATORplus)
Grey Lit Team: Grey Lit Team 2 librarians
.4 FTE
2 catalogers
.8 FTE
1 Support staff
.4 FTE
(Kaplan, Janice, 2003, personal communication)
Findings of Subscriber Survey 2002: Findings of Subscriber Survey 2002 Respondents primarily librarians
Forward material to others
Desires:
publish the Report monthly
make the Report into a searchable database
Re-conduct survey in the future
Problems & Future Directions: Problems andamp; Future Directions Link maintenance/or not?
time consuming
archiving agreements with publishing organizations?
Report is not searchable
create a searchable database?
use scoping options in the current ILS