<s>
The	O
“	O
System	B-Library
for	I-Library
Information	I-Library
on	I-Library
Grey	I-Library
Literature	I-Library
in	I-Library
Europe	I-Library
”	O
(	O
SIGLE	B-Library
)	O
was	O
established	O
in	O
1980	O
,	O
two	O
years	O
after	O
a	O
seminar	O
on	O
grey	O
literature	O
organised	O
by	O
the	O
European	O
Commission	O
in	O
York	O
(	O
UK	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Operated	O
by	O
a	O
network	O
of	O
national	O
information	O
or	O
document	O
supply	O
centres	O
active	O
in	O
collecting	O
and	O
promoting	O
grey	O
literature	O
,	O
SIGLE	B-Library
was	O
an	O
online	O
,	O
pan-European	O
electronic	O
bibliographic	B-Library
database	I-Library
and	O
document	O
delivery	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
1980	O
to	O
1985	O
,	O
SIGLE	B-Library
was	O
funded	O
by	O
the	O
Commission	O
of	O
the	O
European	O
Communities	O
(	O
CEC	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
CEC	O
financial	O
support	O
ended	O
in	O
1985	O
,	O
the	O
national	O
centres	O
formed	O
a	O
network	O
for	O
the	O
acquisition	O
,	O
identification	O
and	O
dissemination	O
of	O
grey	O
literature	O
called	O
“	O
European	O
Association	O
for	O
Grey	O
Literature	O
Exploitation	O
”	O
or	O
EAGLE	O
,	O
who	O
became	O
the	O
producer	O
of	O
the	O
SIGLE	B-Library
database	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2007	O
,	O
together	O
with	O
the	O
last	O
EAGLE	O
operating	O
agent	O
,	O
FIZ	O
Karlsruhe	O
,	O
the	O
French	O
STI	O
centre	O
INIST-CNRS	O
integrated	O
the	O
SIGLE	B-Library
records	O
into	O
a	O
new	O
open	O
access	O
database	O
called	O
OpenSIGLE	B-Library
hosted	O
by	O
INIST-CNRS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
each	O
SIGLE	B-Library
member	O
country	O
,	O
one	O
or	O
two	O
national	O
structures	O
assumed	O
the	O
acquisition	O
,	O
referencing	O
and	O
document	O
delivery	O
of	O
grey	O
literature	O
,	O
mostly	O
national	O
libraries	O
(	O
UK	O
,	O
Luxembourg	O
)	O
or	O
documentation	O
centres	O
of	O
national	O
research	O
organizations	O
(	O
Italy	O
,	O
France	O
,	O
Germany	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SIGLE	B-Library
classification	O
was	O
derived	O
from	O
the	O
American	O
COSATI	O
scheme	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
important	O
difference	O
to	O
INIS	O
was	O
that	O
SIGLE	B-Library
never	O
included	O
serials	O
(	O
only	O
collections	O
of	O
monographs	O
)	O
and	O
never	O
provided	O
records	O
on	O
an	O
analytical	O
level	O
(	O
book	O
or	O
report	O
chapters	O
,	O
communications	O
from	O
conference	O
proceedings	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
SIGLE	B-Library
record	O
contained	O
informative	O
titles	O
in	O
English	O
and/or	O
in	O
the	O
original	O
language	O
,	O
the	O
author	O
’s	O
name	O
,	O
academic	O
degree	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
research	O
organization	O
or	O
educational	O
institution	O
,	O
the	O
document	O
’s	O
date	O
of	O
publication	O
and	O
type	O
,	O
number	O
of	O
pages	O
,	O
report	O
numbers	O
,	O
and	O
language	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
subject	O
classifications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
of	O
the	O
goals	O
of	O
SIGLE	B-Library
from	O
the	O
beginning	O
was	O
to	O
facilitate	O
access	O
to	O
grey	O
documents	O
in	O
Europe	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SIGLE	B-Library
was	O
started	O
in	O
1980	O
,	O
but	O
since	O
some	O
members	O
put	O
in	O
older	O
documents	O
,	O
the	O
earliest	O
publications	O
go	O
back	O
to	O
the	O
sixties	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
SIGLE	B-Library
was	O
a	O
multidisciplinary	O
database	O
,	O
about	O
one	O
third	O
of	O
the	O
records	O
were	O
found	O
in	O
the	O
humanities	O
and	O
social	O
sciences	O
(	O
>35	O
%	O
)	O
,	O
followed	O
by	O
medical	O
and	O
life	O
sciences	O
(	O
12%	O
)	O
and	O
physics	O
(	O
9%	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
of	O
the	O
documents	O
existed	O
only	O
in	O
three	O
copies	O
and	O
it	O
was	O
not	O
always	O
easy	O
for	O
the	O
SIGLE	B-Library
centre	O
to	O
obtain	O
one	O
of	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
1993	O
the	O
SIGLE	B-Library
database	O
contained	O
336,650	O
records	O
,	O
with	O
around	O
40,000	O
new	O
records	O
being	O
added	O
each	O
year	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
1999	O
,	O
SIGLE	B-Library
contained	O
more	O
than	O
630,000	O
records	O
with	O
a	O
current	O
annual	O
input	O
of	O
60,000	O
records	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2005	O
,	O
SIGLE	B-Library
contained	O
855,260	O
records	O
from	O
16	O
countries	O
and	O
the	O
European	O
Commission	O
.	O
</s>
