Abstract
PurposeThis paper seeks to investigate the impact of the open archive initiative on the document supply of grey literature.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on a comparative survey of five major scientific and technical information centres: The British Library (UK), CISTI (Canada), INIST‐CNRS (France), KISTI (South Korea), and TIB Hannover (Germany).FindingsAll major document suppliers are quite deeply involved in the open archive movement, and this involvement has an obvious impact on the policy of acquisition, archiving and supply of grey literature (dissertations, reports, conferences etc.).Originality/valueThe paper is a follow‐up study of the survey published in 2006.
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