If you’ve had any experiences with systematic review or writing dissertations/theses, you may have heard of grey literature.

Grey  literature is unpublished and can be hard to find.   Some examples include:

• Pre-Prints
• E-Prints
• Academic Works
• Commission Reports
• Committee Reports
• White Papers
• Technical Reports
• Government Reports
• Conference Reports
• Technical Standards
• Dissertations
• Theses
• Working Papers
• Market Surveys
• Data Sets

Recently, librarians from Main, Sciences and Hardin Library have put together a guide to help people get started with locating and using grey literature.  You can access this guide at http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/graylit

As always, if you have questions about grey literature, please do not hesitate to contact Hardin Library.