Toby Green
Toby GREEN has worked in scholarly, policy and professional publishing for more than 40 years, holding a variety of senior roles with OECD, Elsevier and Pergamon. Having published books, journals and data, he is now taming grey literature at Coherent Digital, which he co-founded in 2019. He is a regular speaker at publishing and librarian events including: Charleston, NISO, ALPSP, OASPA, SSP, and Fiesole. He is on the Board of Annual Reviews and was previously a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing Board and Chair and Council Member for ALPSP.
Session
Your PID infrastructure almost certainly leaves grey literature behind. This matters more than you might think. Grey literature — reports, policy documents, intergovernmental assessments, technical publications — underpins the world's most consequential decisions, yet remains largely invisible to PID systems. Fewer than 5% of citations in the first six chapters of IPCC's AR6 reference grey literature, and 15% of those links are already broken. The IPCC confirms this wasn't deliberate: contributors simply found DOI-bearing content far easier to cite. There's a second problem. Tracking real-world research impact — in government, policy, and corporate settings — requires journal-to-grey-literature citation analysis. Without grey literature PIDs, that analysis is impossible at scale. In this session you will discover how Content Object Identifiers (COIs), deployed across Policy Commons and Applied Science Commons, are solving both problems. You will leave understanding why grey literature PIDs are no longer optional infrastructure.