Literature Reviews: A Research Guide
Grey literature: what it is and where to find it
"Grey literature" is a term that refers to literature published outside of traditional channels like books or journals. It's often produced by entities such as government departments and agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), think tanks, and sometimes even corporations. Current grey literature may be easy to find online; historical grey literature may be more difficult to locate.
Finding Grey Literature
Your advisor and other subject experts can point you to organizations conducting research outside of traditional academic channels. It's a good idea to search their web sites. Here are a few resources from the UofC library that include Canadian and international grey literature; they may or may not be relevant to your topic. You can also consult your subject librarian to discover grey literature resources specific to your discipline.
- Canada Commons This link opens in a new windowTrojman Corporation and Coherent Digital have developed a new version of Canadian Electronic Library with more content and a new platform - Canada Commons. Canada Commons brings rare, hard-to-find content from Canada that's relevant to a wide range of studies including sociology, anthropology, business and economics. Canada Commons offers extensive coverage of Canadian materials with 25,000 ebooks from scholarly and independent publishers; 180, 000 public policy papers; over 200,000 titles; and a 4,000 entry directory of Canadian research and government organizations. Content was previously available on the dèsLibris platform and is now exclusively on the Canada Commons platform.
- Canadian Research Index This link opens in a new windowCanadian Research Index focuses on periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues in general reference arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences and current affairs. This index consists of depository publications of research value issued by federal, provincial , and territorial governments. Also includes hard-to-find non-depository publications; scientific and technical reports; policy, social economic and political reports; Statistics Canada monographs and serials.
- InFact / Conference Board of Canada This link opens in a new windowGet inFact’s full suite of economic forecasts and human resources research. This all-access subscription is the ultimate insights package with access to over 10,000 premium research reports and forecasts.
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowThe OECD iLibrary, the new platform giving seamless and comprehensive access to statistical data, books, journals and working papers, is now available. It replaces SourceOECD... OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998.
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new windowPAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Index includes PAIS International and PAIS Archive. PAIS International database contains continually updated records for over half a million journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS Archive is a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, and covers monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics.
- RAND Published Research This link opens in a new windowRAND disseminates the results of our work as broadly as possible to benefit the public good. The majority of publicly available research documents published since 1998 are available as free eBook downloads. Also search RAND publications dating back to 1946.
- United Nations digital library This link opens in a new windowSearchable database which offers public free access to current and historical United Nations documents, maps, speeches, voting data, as well as non-sales publications. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document.
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