Grey Literature in our Era as a manner to build a new collective memory

Since our century (Era) is digital, giant steps were taken in a few decades. “Access,” for example, became a keyword. A lot was done in that regard. Is it enough? No. Access has been the basis. We need significant usability and more comprehension. We needed paramount usability from the beginning. “Publishing Grey Literature in our Era (a digital one)” means the chance to be more and more known thanks to the enlargement of access and the addition of usability. For example, one of the ways we can do that is engagement in Citizen Science projects. It means Grey Literature must exit from insider groups. It means becoming more and more open to a broad public and closer to people. “Publishing Grey Literature in our Era” means taking more and more care of people. By investing in usability, we can reach the next step: comprehension. Some proposals: – to launch some calls for projects regarding Grey Literature in Citizen Science (to enforce usability) – to launch think tank groups that will examine the above project outputs to analyze the quality of comprehension, if any. These proposals are ways to explore the chances our digital Era could give to Grey Literature to let GL be more and more known to build a new kind of memory.