Pacific Island Gray Literature Project About the Project One of
the challenges of PRAISE is the identification and dissemination
of gray literature originating from the Pacific Islands. Gray
literature is the body of reports, studies, surveys, workshops,
etc. often produced by local government agencies, private
organizations and educational facilities, which have not been
reviewed and published in journals or other standard
publications and thus are not widely available for study. These
documents often contain valuable and unique information which is
not found elsewhere. The result is that a large pool of
scientific and economic information is seldom accessed by the
research community. The inaccessibility of gray literature is a
particularly serious problem in the Pacific Islands where there
are relatively few libraries and other organizations responsible
for the collection and dissemination of information. A wealth of
reports are produced throughout the Pacific Islands that are
never integrated into the stan