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SIGLE was operated</span><span lang=en-NL> by a network of national information or document supply centres active in collecting and promoting grey literature</span><span lang=EN-US>. It </span><span lang=en-NL>was a pan-European electronic bibliographic database and document delivery system. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>In 2006, the SIGLE database migrated to OpenSIGLE – an online open access bibliographic database with Inist-CNRS as its Service Provider. The year following, GreyNet International became a Content Provider of its conference abstracts, preprints, slides, and author biographical notes. In so doing, OpenSIGLE became registered as a repository in OpenDOAR. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>In 2010, the name OpenSIGLE was changed to OpenGrey, which provided improved research facilities and the export of records. Notification has been given that as of December 1, 2020 the OpenGrey Repository will be discontinued and preserved as a closed archive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>In advance of this closure, all of GreyNet’s content in OpenGrey will have been transferred to the GreyGuide Portal and Repository with ISTI-CNR as its System Provider. In order to facilitate new content from other providers, a multidisciplinary, multiple document type collection has been added to the GreyGuide Repository likewise registered in OpenDOAR. This is the RGL (Resources in Grey Literature) Collection that welcomes acquisitions from communities of practice worldwide, </span><span lang=en-NL><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgreyguiderep.isti.cnr.it%2Fuserarea.php%3Flangver%3Den&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C36cf0c753f874b1faea708d82a2f0cad%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=sKpgkvxMkerd%2BdJXouOKHeaDHUDKge5m1spuWW9UGhc%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="http://greyguiderep.isti.cnr.it/userarea.php?langver=en" shash="yoi1LTV9dSC6DMmyHTbhVVGY7oQAeQaF4+Ih4jdaRuhvmx2mpMixInnfSGd5n1DsEhQfnpS2GyYQcJyomB/3aKLszv/vkp0YzjsqnBBCa87zMUN04i5Kv/Mgw+Bt8jcEp57Z0hzSCTSOfdcHjJ8brcug3p+cLRDEoNCi6st3jI4="><span lang=EN-US>http://greyguiderep.isti.cnr.it/userarea.php?langver=en</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For more information contact </span><span lang=en-NL><a href="mailto:info@greynet.org"><span lang=EN-US>info@greynet.org</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>GreyNet International<br></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Grey Literature Network Service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=NL style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Javastraat 194-HS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=NL style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>1095 CP Amsterdam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=NL 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