About this guide
This guide is designed to provide researchers and graduate research students with a comprehensive understanding of grey literature, its significance, and how to effectively search for it.
What is grey literature: This section provides an understanding of grey literature, its significance, and how it can be used to enhance your research.
Searching for grey literature: Learn about the tools and techniques for searching grey literature, including the use of keywords, search operators, and specialised databases.
Evaluating grey literature: Explore the tools and checklists to help you assess the quality of grey literature.
Finding clinical trails: This section explains how to effectively use trial registers to find clinical trials.
Finding conference materials: Get advice on locating conference papers, posters, and proceedings using databases and conference websites.
Finding policies and reports: Learn where to find policies, government reports, and white papers from both Australian and international sources.
Finding preprints: Explore various repositories, including discipline-specific ones, that contain preprints.
Finding statistical reports: Find out how to locate statistical reports through government department websites, clearinghouses, and search engines.
Finding theses and dissertations: Discover how to locate theses and dissertations from Deakin and other institutions.
Grey literature in reviews: Outlines approaches to searching, screening, appraising, documenting and reporting grey literature in literature reviews, such as evidence syntheses.