Global information Repository Research for STI Development: KISTI-GreyNet Collaborative Research Project Report

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) and GreyNet International collaborated in a joint research project entitled ‘Global Information Repository Research for STI Development’. GreyNet an established community of practice in the field of grey literature for over thirty years has contacts with research organizations in more than 40 countries worldwide. GreyNet brings to this project its expertise in the promotion and management of scientific and technical information outside the sphere of commercial publishing. This six-month collaborative research project was launched in the first week of April 2024 and closed the final week of September 2024. The goal of the research project is to secure curated and diverse types of data held by organizations worldwide and in so doing expand the data spectrum through collaboration between AI and humans. GreyNet was chosen by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) for this joint research project because of its international scope, sectors of information and organizational contacts, diverse range of document types in digital and non-digital formats, its sustained information resources, and open access compliance. On 29 April 2024, the first of many ZOOM meetings was held in which both KISTI and GreyNet presented an understanding of their roles in this joint research project . This six-month project was carried out in three phases each of which incorporated a questionnaire and a controlled survey population.