It’s all about stuff Why it’s not just about e-books (or e-journals) any longer.

… readers As publishers, vendors, aggregators or librarians, our job is all about getting stuff from authors to …

And this is how it was done, pre-internet . . .

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Meanwhile . . . Publishers, Vendors, Aggregators and Librarians were busily . . .

A&I & subject portals Publishers Library portals Content Aggregators EconLit RePEc ScienceDirect OPACs Ingenta Connect . . . linking scholarly Sites for Journals and Books to create . . . . . . A scholarly information network of ebooks and ejournals . . . Cool!

A&I & subject portals Publishers Library portals ScienceDirect OPACs Content Aggregators . . . A ‘seamless’ service for ebooks and ejournals . . . EconLit RePEc Ingenta Connect

ScienceDirect OPACs But I want the grey stuff as well as ebooks and ejournals! . . . A ‘seamless’ service for ebooks and ejournals . . . And now you have it! Grey Stuff

ScienceDirect OPACs Networked ebooks and ejournals Periodicals Books Working Papers Data Podcasts Grey Stuff

Podcast Very Cool! Book Article Data Working Paper File types

Issues - 1 Quality Filter Grey Stuff needs to go through a quality filter too!

Issues - 2 SupplyChain Grey Stuff needs metadata to the same standards as ebooks and ejournals.

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Thank you Toby Green OECD Publishing [email_address] www.OECDiLibrary.org