Grey Literature

Grey literature refers to both published and unpublished research material where; the producing body's primary activity is not publishing. Examples include: standards, webinars, videos, committee reports, working papers, speeches, company reports, expert witness, government policy, patents, workflows, protocols, procedures, guidelines, curriculum, Hansard, submissions to inquiries, government reports, changing the national discourse

There are a number of sources where grey literature can be found. The Internet is now a major source for dissemination and retrieval of grey literature and often is a good starting point to a topic area:

• Australian Government Web Archive http://webarchive.nla.gov.au/gov/
• The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - http://www.ahrq.gov/ 
• MedNar - http://mednar.com
• The Grey Literature Report - http://greylit.org/ (American focus)
• Open Grey http://www.opengrey.eu/ (European focus)
• Grey Literature Network Service  http://greynet.org/
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine - massive archive of webpages https://archive.org/web/ 
• Analysis and Policy Observatory - reports, white papers & articles for the public sector & policy makers http://apo.org.au/ 
• Informit - an Australian database with a lot of government document