TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– This article seeks to investigate the impact of the open archive initiative on the document supply of grey literature.Design/methodology/approach– The article is based on a comparative survey of five major institutions: The British Library (UK), CISTI (Canada), INIST‐CNRS (France), KISTI (South Korea) and TIB Hannover (Germany).Findings– All major document suppliers are more or less deeply involved in the open archive movement, and this involvement has an obvious impact on the policy of acquisition, archiving and supply of grey literature (dissertations, reports, conferences, etc.).Originality/value– Even if the impact of increased access to digital resources on document supply is relatively well documented, little is known about the specific effect on grey literature, especially in the OA environment. This study provides some evidence concerning this effect. VL - 34 IS - 3 SN - 0264-1615 DO - 10.1108/02641610610686012 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/02641610610686012 AU - Boukacem‐Zeghmouri Chérifa AU - Schöpfel Joachim PY - 2006 Y1 - 2006/01/01 TI - Document supply and open access: an international survey on grey literature T2 - Interlending & Document Supply PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 96 EP - 104 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -