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GL’9 The Use of Grey Literature in Historical Journals and Historical Research

GL’9 The Use of Grey Literature in Historical Journals and Historical Research. Cees de Blaaij Zeeuwse Bibliotheek, Netherlands Academic Department. The position of History. Situation before ’60s > Traditional literary format > Focus on “Great Men” and politics

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GL’9 The Use of Grey Literature in Historical Journals and Historical Research

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  1. GL’9 The Use of Grey Literature in Historical Journals and Historical Research Cees de Blaaij Zeeuwse Bibliotheek, Netherlands Academic Department

  2. The position of History • Situation before ’60s > Traditional literary format > Focus on “Great Men” and politics • The art of History after ‘60s > Innovation > Use of methods from social sciences > Specialization Result: > History in general more interdisciplinary > Humanities or a Social Science discipline depending on themes and theory used

  3. Bibliometric characteristics of History Peters : “History: hard or soft science ?” Findings: Monograph ratio to periodicals 1.21 < > 1.0 > Traditional disciplinary: monographs>> 60.6%-88.5% > If interdisciplinary: monographs >> 36.4%-64.1% serials >> 11,6%-29.8% > Overall for history • Use of older material than in other disciplines • Relative low obsolescence

  4. Use of Grey Literature in History • Grey is not well known concept in discipline of history • Distinction between primary and secondary sources • Archival records are not grey in this study • Methods: • Relevant scholarly journals researched • Printed and Open Access Journals • Relevancy on basis of impact factor and/or widely held by libraries • Use of Scopus as citation database

  5. Analysis History Journals Issues: History journals have a low impact factor compared with hard sciences • Different communication: monograph • Different output for international audience • Absolute value of Impact Factor is meaningless Steps in the analysis: • Number of articles in issues • Number of references in articles • Number of grey references • Categorizing grey into groups • Analysis of numbers • Total of 156 research articles • 18, 366 references

  6. References to GL in the articles in selected historical journals from 2005

  7. Results for GL present in History • Average number of references higher in printed than in OA Median Ref. print 105.7 Median Ref. OA 42.2 • Strong presence of grey in Open Access history journals not in printed ones. Median OA 13.4% Median Print 4% • Also stronger presence in > journals researching contemporary political history themes > journals using social science methods • Other studies show presence of grey related material : 2-15.8%

  8. Number of grey literature references by type

  9. Grey data: the future for history? In the Netherlands: • Dare project • DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services • EASY: Electronic Archiving System

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