What is Grey Literature
Gray (or grey) literature is literature produced by individuals or organizations outside of commercial and/or academic publishers. This type of non-formally published substantive information (often not formally peer-reviewed; especially important in all kinds of sciences) can include information such:
- theses and dissertations
- technical reports
- working papers
- government reports
- evaluation and think tank reports and resources
- conference proceedings, papers and posters
- publications from NGOs, INGOs, think tanks and policy institutes
- patents
- preprints
- unpublished clinical trials
- and much more
Where to find Grey Literature
- NY Academy of Medicine Grey Literature ReportThis report is a bimonthly publication of The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics. The database platform is keyword searchable and serves as an archive for the cataloged reports.
- ERICERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN)Social Science Research Network (SSRN) provides scholarly working papers and published articles in the social sciences, including the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) and the Economics Research Network (ESN). Abstracts and PDFs of articles available.
- ProQuest Dissertations and ThesesWith more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
- OpenGreyOpenGrey covers Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Science and Humanities.