Research Guides: Psychology: Grey Literature

Guides for Searching Gray Literature

Gray Matters: A Practical Tool for Searching Health-Related Grey Literature
This resource is intended to guide those doing in-depth research in health sciences in finding and accessing gray literature. Researchers can use the Word document, linked at the bottom of the page, to thoroughly explore gray literature in biomedical sciences, behavioral health, mental health, and more.
Searching for Grey Literature from the University of Exeter
This is an informative slide presentation on identifying grey literature using web searching, web-based catalogues and databases, and bibliographic databases. It includes links to numerous grey literature sources. Many are U.K.-centric, though broadly useful.
Guide to Searching Grey Literature from the University of Wolverhampton
This focused document links to numerous grey literature sources. Many are U.K.-centric, though broadly useful.

arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
Provides open access to 1,000,000+ e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
Google Scholar @ HPU This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Accessing Google Scholar via this link authenticates your off-campus computer, enabling off-campus access to the Libraries' resources.
Science.gov This link opens in a new window
Science.gov is a gateway to U.S. Federal Science (over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results).

OpenGrey
This is an archived dataset (available through DANS Easy Archive) of over 1 million bibliographical grey literature references produce in Europe. Included in the dataset are research and technical reports, dissertations, conference, papers, official publications, and more. This covers science & technology, biomedical sciences, economics, social sciences, and humanities.
Grey Literature Report
The Grey Literature Report was discontinued, but the archive is still available. Learn about grey literature and find grey literature publishers.