Overview of the grey literature produced by the National Institute of Health in Italy focusing on challenges and opportunities to share open data and creare awareness on the value of GL.

1. 1
Paola De Castro
Settore Attività Editoriali
ISS, a research institute
as producer of publications:
opportunities and challenges
It was established in 1934,
it publishes since 1938,
from 2000 all its publications are online
ISS, the Italian NIH,
is a research institute for
public health.
International Conference: Grey Literature and Policy development.
The Pisa Declaration. Pisa 7 April 2014

2. HOW MANY PUBLICATIONS?
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900 Researchers (tot 2000 staff)
About 1800 publications per year
83 82
73
65
62
58
46
14
10
7
5 4 3 3 2 1
54
145
53
46
103
31 32
8
21
23
2 1
6
3
44
10
106
67
0
25
50
75
100
125
150
MIPI CNE BCN FARM AMPP TES SPVSA EOMM CRIVIB CSC CNMR CNAIDS CNT SBGSA CNS SIDBAE URE
Non Indicizzate
Indicizzate
Non Indicizzate
Indicizzate
30% in institucional series
Not intexed/indexed. (Annual report)
60% in English
48% GL

3. Annali ISS
Peer reviewed
Indexed
ISI, MEDLINE, EMBASE/Excerpta
Medica, CHEMABS, PASCAL, SciELO.
Aslo backfiles are availables
from www.iss.it/anna
International science
journal in English
All researchers can publish on it

4. 4
GL collections: Notiziario ISS
Monthly bullettin on current infromation on ISS
activity (research, reviews, meetings)
It includes data on National Epidemiological Bulletin
BEN
http://www.iss.it/publ/index.php?lang=1&anno=2014&tipo=4

5. GL collections: ISTISAN Reports
In SIGLE since its
initial development
Since 1977 they
publish research
activity, proceedings,
standards and
guidelines
Divided into 5 areas
http://www.iss.it/publ/index.php?lang=1&anno=2014&tipo=5

6. 6
GL collections
ISTISAN Conferences
Since 1985 they include abstracts to
be presented in Conferences
organized by ISS.
To be distributed during the
cnference

7. 7
Publications addressed
to the schools
Since 2001
Updated information on health issues relevant
for schools
http://www.iss.it/publ/index.php?lang=1&anno=2014&tipo=15

8. 8
Leaflets
General inforation on ISS and specific
information on health issues.

9. Historical videos,
a precious source of GL
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Interviews to create
awareness on our history
through oral memories of
people working at ISS:
From the glass blower, to the
carpenter, to people working
in serious environmental
accidents, to people working
with Nobel prize winners...
http://www.iss.it/publ/index.php?lang=1&anno=2014&tipo=38&view=1

10. 10
I beni storico-scientifici
dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità
The series is aimed at
safeguarding, preserving
and studying the Institute’s
heritage collections of special
scientific interest.
The books include pictures of old scientific
instruments, written and oral memories to
document the history of public health in
Italy.
From malaria eradication to physics
laboratories, therapeutical chemistry
laboratories, etc.

11. All ISS GL is in ISS Digital archive
Dspace ISS >34.000
• Title, author, date
• Types
• MESH terms
Open Science 2020 Harmonizing current OA practices with H2020
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 Communities (9)
Awareness towards OA
Great potential, BUT…
 Training including GL
 Empowerment
 Direct contacts with authors
 Mediated deposit

12. Databases and registers from ISS website
Open Science 2020 Harmonizing current OA practices
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Free access databases
Reserved access database
National registers

13. Create awareness
among researchers
about importance of GL
and their responsibilities
to create and share it online
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14. 14
Nancy
style
to improve the
editorial
production of GL

15. New levels of responsibility
arise for all stakeholders with Internet15
Training is necessary
•to create awareness on the ethical and technical
implications associated with OA publishing, including both
white and grey literature.
•to provide tools to cope with the new requirements
associated with such new responsibilities
NECOBELAC project
(FP7) coordinated by ISS
Sharing information and data for public interest

16. NECOBELAC project in brief
It is a European project (2009-2012)
“Science in Society” working in the field
of PUBLIC HEALTH
 improve scientific writing
 promote open access publishing models
 foster technical and scientific cooperation
between Europe and Latin America
www.necobelac.eu
Network of Collaboration Between Europe & Latin American-Caribbean countries
It aims to:
All actors taking part in
scientific communication processTARGET
14th International Conference on Grey Literature, Rome -16

17. 17 14th
NECOBELAC SCHEME

18. NECOBELAC topic maps
on scientific writing, including GL
14th
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19. OA and Grey Literature in biomedical
research dissemination
C.A.S.A. (AIDS)
E-learning platform
in scientific communication, 2014
Italian
Asbestos
Project
(events in Ecuador
and Colombia, 2014)
Some examples of dissemination practicves (including GL)
in Latin America and Africa
following the experience of the NECOBELAC training
Associated Presentations are available in Slideshare

20. ECDL Health Doc
towards a driving license
in information documentation for health professionals
• Information sources and seaching methodology of electronic archives
• Open archives
• Quality of online information Research evaluation
• Scientific writing
• Social networks
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Provide Medical Staff certified skills on :
Pilot course organized by IRE, AICA, ISS - Rome, 4,5,12,19 March 2014
Objective:
All these skills include GL

21. Final recommendations
• Create awareness on GL value among all stakeholders
• Push the researchers as producers of GL (data, reports)
to share their research output online
• Link GL with OA and Open Data movement to
clear up the old dust traditionally associated with GL
and show its full value together with all the other primary
sources of information
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Thank you
paola.decastro@iss.it