Collecting, publicizing and providing access to socio‐economic grey literature in Southern Africa with particular reference to Botswana Available to Purchase

In Africa generally, collecting and disseminating socio‐economic grey literature can be difficult because of the existing unsatisfactory bibliographic control situation and the poor state of the publishing industry. Looks at the socio‐economic grey literature scenario in the Southern African subregion by mentioning the sources of such literature and some of the efforts that have been made to organize it. Discusses the role of the National Institute of Development Research and Documentation (NIR) of the University of Botswana in collecting,publicizing and providing access to the literature in Botswana and the problems that are encountered and the attempted solutions. Concludes that the establishment of a national network of socio‐economic grey literature producers would go a long way towards its effective bibliographic control both within Botswana and the Southern African region as a whole.