ABSTRACT
It won’t do to ignore it, though it’s hard to collect it. In this instalment of Resourcefully, a discussion of the rapidly expanding and increasingly important world of grey literature. Exploring the potential for library-led investment and preservation, and the social justice opportunity to acknowledge a constellation of creators providing a wide variety of valuable, unconventional content, we take inspiration from the past to plot a course forward. Grey literature allows us to ask a big question: How can we learn from past library failures in supporting and preserving independent open access publishing moving forward?
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Notes
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