What is Grey Lit. Finding hidden resources (Mary Ellen Bates) Preprint. Tips for finding hidden business resources - Bates InfoTips. Finding so-called “grey literature” — material from publications not produced by commercial publishers — has always been a challenge for researchers.
The most valuable grey literature is often not easily retrieved through a simple query in a search engine; it resides inside a specialized database, buried deep within an association’s web site, or is simply not ranked as relevant by a search engine’s algorithm. The problem of finding grey literature is not new; research on and discussion about grey lit in the STM field has been going on for years (see, for example, the International Conference on Grey Literature, which has been meeting since 1993). More recently, business researchers are finding that sometimes non-traditional resources have the best — or only — information on a narrow topic or current issue.
Following are some of the tricks I use for finding hidden or grey-lit business resources. Search OpenGrey. Grey Literature - LibGuides at NSHA Library. That which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers.
From Grey Literature Report (Grey Literature Report). Accessed August 20, 2015. Examples of Grey Literature Unpublished clinical trials Government or NGO reports Conference proceedings Dissertations Clinical practice guidelines Why is Grey Literature Useful? Gray Literature DB, Rutgers University School of Law - Newark. Grey Literature - LibGuides at University of Wyoming. Grey literature refers to any literature that is not a book or content within a journal or magazine and not published by commercial publishers.
Usually these sources are not indexed or cataloged, and may be part of the "Deep Web" meaning they cannot be found easily with a web browser. These publications might be conference proceedings, government documents, internally published studies, and other similar forms of documents created by government, academic, organizational and business entities. Assessing Grey Literature is as important as evaluating any other source from published literature or from the Web. Official Guide to Government Information and Services. ClinicalTrials.gov.
Directory of Open Access Repositories. Science.gov: USA.gov for Science - Government Science Portal.