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The importance of grey literature as a means of primary, nonconventional communication is accepted in almost every scientific field. Although grey literature covers a wide spectrum of nonconventional documents, both producers and users of grey literature have always considered it to be a primary source of information. The National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI) was founded in 1937. The main goal of this organization is collecting, preserving, organizing and disseminating information about printed and non-printed works in Iran, and taking measures and making decisions to guarantee the accuracy, ease and speed of research and study in all fields to promote national culture. In order to achieve these goals, and according to the law, all private and public publishers have to deposit a copy of their publications (book and non -book materials) to the NLAI. There are more than 1.790.000 issues in the grey literature in the NLAI, and over 170.000 of them belong to the Medicine group. In this study, the amount of grey resources in the field of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary, paramedical and pharmacology in the NLAI is surveyed. How many grey literatures are there in each medical subject's groups? How many of them have been digitized? How many articles are in the field of medicine group? How many of them are conference papers? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper provides empirical results on the part of grey literature in the French national open repository HAL. The results are based on a quantitative analysis of 973,968 deposits from 1,272 research laboratories affiliated the ten most important research universities in France (IDEX program). 35% of all deposits (documents and records) are grey literature. The main types of these items are conference papers (71%), PhD theses (11%) and preprints and working papers (8%). Their overall accessibility (degree of openness) is 37%, which is higher than commercial publications. Differences between document types, disciplines and institution are described. Further research is needed for a better understanding of how research laboratories are handling grey literature (licensing ...). A follow-up study in 2021 will provide this insight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper provides empirical results on the part of grey literature in the French national open repository HAL. The results are based on a quantitative analysis of 973,968 deposits from 1,272 research laboratories affiliated the ten most important research universities in France (IDEX program). 35% of all deposits (documents and records) are grey literature. The main types of these items are conference papers (71%), PhD theses (11%) and preprints and working papers (8%). Their overall accessibility (degree of openness) is 37%, which is higher than commercial publications. Differences between document types, disciplines and institution are described. Further research is needed for a better understanding of how research laboratories are handling grey literature (licensing ...). A follow-up study in 2021 will provide this insight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to provide readers with a practical view on how to adapt the internal policies of research institutions to the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation. Since the Regulation enters force six months after the conference takes place, it can be expected that this issue of readjustment of internal processes to GDPR will be very important for majority of conference participants. With regard to the time and space limit, the paper will focus exclusively on the issues connected with archiving and sharing research data. Emphasis will be put on the rights of research subjects and the public interest in research as an entitlement to process of personal data without consent. This article is a result of the research funded by the Czech Science Foundation as the project GA15- 20763S Právni rámec sběru, zpracování, uchovávání a užívání výzkumných dat (Legal Framework for Collecting, Processing, Storing and Utilizing of Research Data). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper provides insight into legal issues of grey literature. Based on a short overview of recent studies on grey literature and intellectual property, it suggests a typology of copyright protection for grey literature, in particular for PhD and Master's theses, reports, conference papers, working papers, datasets and preprints. New trends in copyright and scientific communication are mentioned in so far as grey literature is concerned: digital rights, creative commons, institutional repositories and mass digitization. The paper reflects also on the way legal issues impact the definition of grey literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]