Vanderbilt Resources for Grey Literature
The following are relevant databases the Vanderbilt Libraries are subscribed to.
- Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window
Citations for theses and dissertations from select colleges and universities around the world including those previously available in American Doctoral Dissertations. Full text, when available, is via the institutional repository where the thesis or dissertation is housed.
- Dissertations & Theses Full Text This link opens in a new windowDissertations and theses from around the world in business, health & medicine, history, literature & language, science & technology, social sciences, and the arts. Includes Vanderbilt University dissertations and theses.
- EThOS: Electronic Theses Online Service This link opens in a new windowUK’s national thesis service. National aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions.
- Vanderbilt University Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) This link opens in a new window
Vanderbilt University theses and dissertations.
- Budget of the United States Government This link opens in a new windowBudget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications.
- CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new windowCentral Intelligence Agency's database: information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for countries, territories, and dependencies.
- CQ Congress Collection This link opens in a new windowPublic policy issues, information about members of Congress (1981-), vote analysis, and dictionary and encyclopedia-type entries on legislative terms and the legislative process.
- EDGAR This link opens in a new window
US government database of public company filings collected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Full-text of company annual 10-K reports, quarterly 10-Q reports, proxy statements, prospectus, etc.
- ERIC (ProQuest version) This link opens in a new windowJournal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs on education-related literature.
- FAOSTAT This link opens in a new window
Statistical database on food & agriculture. Includes production, trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products, population, agricultural machinery, and food aid shipments.
- FDsys - Federal Digital System This link opens in a new windowGovernment Printing Office's access to publications of the Federal Government.
- GPO (Government Printing Office) Catalog, 1976- This link opens in a new windowAll types of US government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
- Access World News Research Collection This link opens in a new windowResearch diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with curricular areas such as Political Science, English, Sociology, Humanities, Business, International Studies and more. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Coverage of the most important issues of the day, written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, and resources for additional research.
- News (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new windowNational, regional, and local newspapers; images; radio and television broadcasts and transcripts.
- Newspapers.com Library Edition - Southeast Collection This link opens in a new windowHistorical newspapers archive containing thousands of regional, state, and small local newspapers from the southeastern U.S.
- ProQuest News and Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Direct link to the newspaper section of ProQuest. Includes Alt-Press Watch, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Latin American Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand Complete, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Times of London, and The Tennessean.
- Tennessean (2002-present) This link opens in a new windowNashville's local and regional newspaper: The Tennessean.
- ProQuest Statistical Insight This link opens in a new windowFederal, state, and international statistical, economic, demographic, and geographic information. National income and production statistics, retail and wholesale trade data, interest rates, economic indicators, and social and demographic statistics, plus data on energy, environmental protection, agriculture, fisheries, crime, etc.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowQuantitative data, statistics, infographics, and related information compiled from market research institutes, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowExtensive selection of statistics for the United States, with selected data for regions, divisions, states, metropolitan areas, cities, and foreign countries from reports and records of government and private agencies.
- Global Think Tanks This link opens in a new windowCurated, high quality policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets produced by the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, research centers, IGOs, and NGOs.
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
News and newspaper stories, federal and state court cases, US law reviews and journals, company profiles and directories. Company Dossier; data on public figures.
- PAIS International This link opens in a new window
Public Affairs Information Service: journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, etc. covering issues in the public debate.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals, newspapers, dissertations, and business information. Includes: ABI/INFORM Complete, Accounting & Tax, Banking Information Source, Canadian Newsstand Complete, CBCA Complete, Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch, Pharmaceutical News Index, Asian Business & Reference, Biology Journals, Career and Technical Education, Computing, Criminal Justice, Education Journals, European Business, Family Health, Health & Medical Complete, Health Management, Military Collection, Newsstand, Nursing & Allied Health Source, Psychology Journals, Religion, Research Library, Science Journals, Social Science Journals, Telecommunications, Snapshots.
- ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
International literature in the social sciences: politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education. IBSS, PAIS and Sociological Abstracts. Abstracts, indexing and full text of articles, books, chapters, dissertations, working papers.
• Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
• Criminal Justice Database
• Education Database
• ERIC
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
• PAIS Index
• Political Science Database
• PTSDpubs
• Social Science Database
• Social Services Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts
• Sociology Database
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Citation database from journals and international conference proceedings. Cross-search of the Web of Science Core Collection, BIOSIS Previews, and the SciELO Citation Index (Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa).
Tools for Searching for Grey Literature
- FIND POLICYA side project of Transparify, search think tank sites grouped by topic and location.
- Open Think Tank DirectoryA global collection of 2700 think tanks and related organizations.
- GreySourceGreySource provides examples of grey literature to the average net-user and in so doing profiles organizations responsible for its production and/or processing. GreySource identifies the hyperlink directly embedded in a resource, thus allowing immediate and virtual exposure to grey literature.
- Grey Guideportal and repository for resources in the field of grey literature.
- OpenGreyA search portal for European grey literature. It covers Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Science and the Humanities.
- World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO) Worldwide NGO DirectorySearch for NGO's based on location.
- OpenDOAROpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held
- UNESCO Database of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)Contains the profiles of non-governmental organizations that have official relations with UNESCO.
- UN NGO Branch - Integrated Civil Society Organizations SystemThe integrated Civil Society Organizations (iCSO) System, developed by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), facilitates interactions between civil society organizations and DESA. The system provides online registration of general profiles for civil society organizations, including address, contacts, activities and meeting participation.
- Harvard Kennedy School of Government Think Tank SearchA Google Custom Search of more than 1200 think tanks and research centers.
- Non-Governmental OrganizationsCustom searches to find information from NGOs created by Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)
- OpenGreyA search portal for European grey literature. It covers Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Science and the Humanities.
- JSTOR Open Research ReportsJSTOR hosts a growing curated collection of more than 45,000 open research reports from 175 policy institutes from around the world. These publications are freely accessible to everyone on JSTOR and discoverable as their own content type alongside journals, books, and primary sources. We update research reports on our platform each month as they become available through contributing institutes.Research reports provide current analysis on many of today’s most discussed and debated issues from a diversity of ideological and international perspectives representing 39 countries and 29 languages. A sample of topics would include climate change, border security, fake news, cybersecurity, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, energy policy, gender issues, terrorism, remote learning, and various public health issues, including COVID-19.
Sources of Grey Literature
- GovInfoGovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch. GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
- United Nations Digital LibraryThe online catalog of UN documents and publications. The Digital Library includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document.
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN)SSRN, formerly known as Social Science Research Network, is an open access research platform used to share early-stage research, evolve ideas, measure results, and connect scholars around the world.
Grey Literature by Topic
- The Community Health Online Digital Archive & Research Resource (CHODARR)An archived virtual library of community-based and government publications related to health and social welfare policy, including grey literature, with emphasis on Vancouver-area resources and organizations. Note: This source is no longer being updated. You can browse the individual collections, or use Google's site search function to search across it. Example search in Google: site:chodarr.org AIDS
- PolicyArchivePolicyArchive is a comprehensive digital library of public policy research containing over 30,000 documents.
- Migration Policy InstituteReports, fact sheets, policy briefs, articles, commentaries and more on several topics related to Migration.
- OpenGreyA search portal for European grey literature. It covers Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Science and the Humanities.
- National Technical Reports LibraryThe National Technical Information Service acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports in existence. The NTRL offers online, free and open access to these authenticated government technical reports
- Science.govScience.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
- USAID Development Experience ClearinghouseSearch 50 years worth of USAID project records and other related documents on a variety of topics.
- The World Bank Research and PublicationsData, research and reports on topics related to poverty and development.
- EldisEldis supports free and open access to useful and relevant research on global development challenges.
