This guide will provide suggestions for tools that help to identify government agencies and nonprofit organizations that publish various types of reports and technical literature. Use the tabs along the top of this research guide to navigate between pages of resources that will be helpful to your project.
Grey Literature (aka gray literature) is generally defined as materials published outside the oversight of commercial publishers of journals and books.
Grey literature can include document types such as conference papers, data files, dissertations, government documents, manuscripts, nonprofit reports, pamphlets, statistical reports, technical reports, clinical trial reports, university reports, working papers, and videos.
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This guide focuses on United States resources. To find suggestions related to additional subject areas or international organizations that feature grey literature content, see topic guides such as:
You can search for grey literature and reports in MULibrary Search directly in the search box below.
Your keyword search results can be refined by "Author/Creator" by entering the name of the government or nonprofit organization to find documents by specific issuing agencies. Use the "Advanced Search" link to limit your search to "Material Type: Books" to see types of reports. After entering your keywords, your search results can be refined by "Resource Type" to select various document formats.
If you need help finding or accessing government documents and other types of reports, contact a librarian.
Searching the Grey Literature
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Searching the Grey Literature discuss different aspects of grey literature, including an introduction to grey literature, the value of grey literature, search sources for grey literature and how to conduct needs assessment before beginning a grey literature search. Search techniques for identifying grey literature documents, selecting and evaluating grey literature search sources and best searching practices are also discussed in detail.
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