#33: Interview with Toby Green on why grey literature is important in scholarly communication

Dear Sir/ Madam, Greetings! Happy to share the 33rd interview post on 'Open Interview'. In this email interview for Open Interview, *Toby Green* shares his ideas and thoughts with Gopakumar V and Siddu Huded, on collecting and facilitating grey literature for the scholarly community. He discusses how grey literature is becoming a feature, rather than being a bug in scholarly communication and how the Policy Commons initiative has been active in different regions of the world in the grey literature domain. He also talks on why Coherent Digital is seeking relationships with Google Scholar, EBSCO and Clarivate and libraries to reach out to the mainstream users so they can discover a new world of informally published content. -- Toby Green is a Cofounder of Coherent Digital. Before Policy Commons initiative became a reality, it was a dream of Toby for over a decade. As Head of Publishing for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Toby led the development and launch of the organization’s online repository, iLibrary. After twenty years, Toby left OECD in 2019 to cofound Coherent Digital. Every librarian he consulted spoke of the challenges of finding, cataloguing, and preserving policy grey literature. The production team began work, and Policy Commons launched in November 2020. Behind the scenes, Policy Commons employs multiple custom-built crawling technologies, AI tools, extraction micro-services, and a powerful search engine, all running on Coherent Digital’s proprietary Commons platform. *--* *Toby Green: We are indexing grey literature at scale for the larger benefit of scholarly community* https://openinterview.org/2025/04/24/toby-green-we-are-indexing-grey-literat... Please read the post and share your valuable comments on the blog. Regards, Editor, Open Interview https://openinterview.org/ -- Santosh C. H., PhD https://santoshch.my.canva.site/home University Librarian Central University of Haryana http://cuh.ac.in/ Mahendergarh-123 031 Haryana, India http://library.cuh.ac.in/ Cell: +91-99874 28147 -- Read: *Recent interview post of N V Sathyanarayana https://openinterview.org/2025/03/05/n-v-sathyanarayana-genai-will-drive-the...* -- DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail & discard all copies of the original message.
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Santosh C. H.