The document describes the Grisemine project, a digital library of grey literature run by the Central Library at the University of Sciences and Technologies in Lille, France. The project aims to increase visibility of French scholarly works by making electronic collections of theses, reports, and other grey literature openly accessible online. It discusses the types of content included, functionality for users to search and access texts, and technical aspects like metadata and classification systems. Usage of the site is growing steadily with contributions coming from over 70 countries.

1. GRISEMINE,
a digital library of grey literature
Marie-France CLAEREBOUT
Central library
University of sciences and technologies
Lille (France)
http://bibliotheques.univ-lille1.fr/grisemine

2. The context
Printed publications in our library
* commercial books and journals
* Grey Literature (theses, reports,…)
Electronic publications on the Internet
* by publishers
* by authors or institutions themselves
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3. The stakes
A new way of scholarly dissemination
Are technologies going to replace libraries ?
Digital libraries remain useful
* inside on-line universities
* offering access to organized Grey
Literature collections
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4. The Grisemine project
More visibility to French-written
scholarly production
New electronic collections
New services for users
New users
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5. Contents on line
In French, from any country
In any discipline covered by our library :
sciences, technology, social sciences
From universities, research or teaching
institutes, public organizations
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6. Contents on line
Research texts already communicated
* theses and dissertations
* symposium communications
* articles of scholarly journals
Research texts not yet communicated
* notes, working papers, preprints
Teaching texts
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7. Functionalities
Access to the printed form inside the
physical library
Access to the electronic form on the
Internet, allowing
* to browse or search inside the catalogue
* to search or navigate inside the text
* to print or download the text
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8. Scientific and legal issues
Guarantee of durability
Asking for a copy of each text
Guarantee of credibility
Only texts from known institutions
Guarantee of intellectual property
Always asking for rights before
dissemination
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9. Technical aspects
Texts collected and stored in both
printed and electronic formats
Texts disseminated in PDF format
* with a system of bookmarks
* protected against copy & paste
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10. Bibliographic description
Metadata tagged in MarcXML
The Dewey classification, useful for
exchange
Description includes abstract and
table of contents, for more pertinent
search
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11. Feedback
Grisemine slowly increases
about 30 texts per month
Frequentation steadily increases
about 1,800 visitors last month
Visitors from 74 different countries
New contributors willingly send their texts
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12. Closer to the authors
Electronic theses
* French national project of electronic
dissemination and conservation
More generaly
* structuring contents
* recommendations to the authors
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13. Collaboration between actors
Many projects of scholarly Grey
Literature dissemination
Each actor can bring
* his contents
* his know-how
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