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Thirteenth International Conference on Grey Literature

Library of CongressWashington D.C., USA

December 5-6, 2011

DTIC: Multiplying the Value / Sharing the Wealth

Defense Technical Information Center

DTIC Grey LitDTIC Grey Lit

• Found in DTIC Technical Reports (TR) Collection

• Not published by commercial publishers

• May include copyrighted material and may not be completely public domain

• Selected, processed, indexed, and distributed

DTIC Foreign PartnersDTIC Foreign Partners

• Partner nations provide publications for DTIC selection– (DRDC, Canada) Defense Research and

Development, Canada– (DSTO, Australia) Defense Science and

Technology Organisation, Australia

DTIC U. S. PartnersDTIC U. S. Partners

• DOD authored S&T* public release articles in Open Access journals– Creative Commons (CC) License– Hindawi Publishing Corporation– BioMed Central

• Other federal agency public access publications such as– Library of Congress - Congressional Research Service

(CRS)– Veterans Administration (VA)– General Accounting Office (GAO)

*Science and Technology

Value AddedValue Added

• Collected and preserved for value to the defense S&T community

• Retained not discarded

• Continuous access

• Enhanced subject descriptions/groupings

• Many digitized and full-text reports

• Documents available at no charge

DTIC OnlineDTIC Online

DTIC OnlineDTIC Online

• 900,000+ entries in the technical reports collection

• Search for not only grey lit but other DTIC & DTIC hosted collections

• Citations/metadata and full text

• No charge or registration required for collected publicly available items

DTIC MethodologyDTIC Methodology

• Provides, maintains, and applies controlled vocabulary: DTIC Thesaurus

• Groups corporate authors/ organizations hierarchically

• Organizes content by broad subject areas– DTIC Subject Categories: 25 broad subject

fields and 251 groups• Alphabetical Index to the SCG• Numeric Index to the SCG

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DTIC Acquisition Contact Information

DTIC Acquisition Contact Information

• Contact DTIC if you feel your information or document is valuable to the DoD S&T Community

• Amy Tursky, Information Collection Division703-767-8037

atursky@dtic.mil

• Willis Smith, Information Collection Division703-767-8038wsmith@dtic.mil

DTIC POCsDTIC POCs

• Phyllis Bell, Acting Director, User Services Directorate

703-767-9150

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• Karen Nimerick, Instructor

703-767-9072

knimeric@dtic.mil

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