Data from “Realizing the potential of grey literature by recognizing its publishers: The PUBGREY project and the case of climate change”

A selection of records from the PUBGREY Registry1 was made based on three criteria forming the population of this use case. These criteria include: open access compliance, each of the publishing bodies will have already been assigned a ROR ID2, and an individual’s email address is provided as the point of contact in the record. Ten of the 25 records that comprise the PUBGREY registry adhered to the established criteria and they were asked to complete a brief online survey dealing with grey literature. The survey questions used in the study on climate change are the exact same as in a study three years earlier on circular economy3. The reuse of the questionnaire was based on a recent working paper4 demonstrating how circular economy provides a strategy in achieving goals for climate change. Finally, via the search function on the ten websites of our survey population, a search of the terms: ‘climate’, ‘climate change’, and ‘circular economy’ were carried out. The results from both the survey and the searches from the websites were then analyzed and presented in summary.