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What is grey literature?
Literature that has not been commercially or formally published
What does it include?
- Blogs
- Conference proceedings
- E-prints
- Fact sheets
- Government documents
- Interviews
- Newsletters
- Reports
- Research Data
- Surveys
- Theses
- Tweets
- Working papers
What are its advantages?
- newly disseminated findings
- information from unpublished studies
- data which may not be available in traditional publishing
What to look out for?
- broad range of amorphous material
- not traditional channels of publishing and distribution
- quality and reliability of the source
- not well represented in indexing sources
Where to search?
- Institutional repositories
- Databases
The Library's full-text databases
- Organisation websites
- Open Web
Limit to site .gov or .edu for more reliable resources
- Interlibrary Loan Service
Request a document through an interlibrary loan if it is available in another library (free service for members of the Geneva Graduate Institute community)
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