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Grey literature

Grey literature (or gray literature) is material and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels. Common grey literature publication types include reports (annual, research, technical, project, etc.

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Grey literature

Nodes70
Edges69
Triples212
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028571
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Grey literature

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related to Further reading · 103
Grey literature → Access, An Examination, Ann, Archived, Available, Bell, Bibliographic Control, Braun, Briden, Broadsides, Cedefop, Childress, Collecting, Collection Management, Collection-Level Cataloging, College, Corey, CRC Press, Cross Hairs, CS1
related to Databases · 22
Grey literature → Analysis, Applied Science Commons, ArXiv, At, BASE, CORE, CrossRef, IGOs, Many, NGOs, OAI-PMH, OpenDOAR, Policy Commons, Policy Observatory, RePEc, ROAR, Several, The British Library, They, Unpaywall
related to Definitions · 19
Grey literature → Allied Forces, Auger, British Lending Library Division, Charles, European Communities, Guide, His, In, Luxembourg, New York City, Reports Literature, Sixth Conference, The, The Documentation, Third International Conference, This, Use, While, World War II
related to External links · 19
Grey literature → About, Archived, Content, Department, Energy, EnergyThe GrayLIT, From, Grey Literature Library, InternationalScience, Office, OpenGrey Repository, OpenSIGLE, OSTI, Science Accelerator, Scientific, Technical Information, UK ArchaeologyThe International Journal, United States Department, Wayback Machine
related to Resources and advocacy · 10
Grey literature → Each, EBSCO Publishing, EBSCO's LISTA-FT Database, Europe-based, GreyNet, International Conference, Research, Scopus, The, The Grey Journal
see also · 8
Grey literature → Alternative, Association, Europe, Grey Literature ExploitationGrey Literature, Information, International Steering CommitteeGrey Literature, Literature, Network ServiceOpenSIGLEParaliteratureSelf-publishingSystem
related to Problems · 7
Grey literature → Although, Basic, Conversely, For, Generally, Outside, Similarly
has impact · 5
Grey literature → Grey, In, Professionals, Some, The
related to Publication types · 5
Grey literature → GreyNet, Organizations, The, These, This
is a · 1
Grey literature → agreed collective term that researchers and information professionals can use to discuss this distinct but disparate group of resources

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grey literature research information reports documents access may government journal organizations technical resources doi library available public academic include publication

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Grey literatureis aagreed collective term that researchers and information professionals can use to discuss this distinct but disparate group of resources0.90text
databasesinstance ofThus grey literature is usually inaccessible through relevant reference tools0.80text
indexesinstance ofThus grey literature is usually inaccessible through relevant reference tools0.80text
which rely upon the reporting of subscription agents.In 2010instance ofThus grey literature is usually inaccessible through relevant reference tools0.80text
D.Jinstance ofThus grey literature is usually inaccessible through relevant reference tools0.80text
bibliographic control issuesinstance ofthere are certain overlaps between the two media and they undoubtedly share common frustrations0.80text
manuscriptsinstance ofUnique written documents0.80text
archivesinstance ofUnique written documents0.80text
personal communications are not usually considered to fall under the heading of grey literatureinstance ofUnique written documents0.80text
although they again share some of the same problems of controlinstance ofUnique written documents0.80text
accessinstance ofUnique written documents0.80text
authorsinstance ofBasic information0.80text

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