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RAISE content: Grey Literature

Grey literature is “information produced by all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing”.

Read our Grey Literature Library Guide to help you to:

  • identify grey literature sources 
  • understand how and why to use grey literature in your research 
  • apply creative search techniques for finding grey literature
  • review and evaluate grey literature sources

 

Database

Type of grey literature

Analysis & Policy Observatory

Public policy research reports, articles and data from academic research centres, think tanks, government and non-government organisations. Also features opinion and commentary pieces, video, audio and web resources particularly for issues facing Australia and New Zealand.

Google Scholar

Articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
International HTA Database Bibliographic information about ongoing and published health technology assessments commissioned or undertaken by HTA organisations from around the world. A valuable source for identifying grey literature as much of the information it contains is only available directly from individual funding agencies.
MedNar One-stop search across medical societies, NIH resources, other U.S. government websites, and patents.
OAlster Catalog of millions of records representing open access resources from open access collections worldwide. OAIster includes more than 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors.
OpenDOAR Global directory of academic open access repositories containing full-text resources.
Open Grey Open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe and allows you to export records and locate the documents.
Science.gov Gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results
WorldWideScience.org Global science gateway-accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases.