General Gray Literature

• Academic Search Complete - Designed for academic institutions. Search articles in over 5,300 publications (over 4,460 peer-reviewed) back to 1865, citations & abstracts for 9,300 journals & 10,900 publications (monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.), cited references for 1,000 journals. Covers all areas of academic study (area studies, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, etc.). Updated daily. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• African-AmericanTheses and Dissertations 1907-2002 - Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE. Can search, browse citations of research completed at the University of California, Berkeley.



• Australian Digital Theses Program (ADT) - Can search & download (pdf) theses from 23 universities.



• Catalog of Nonprofit Literature - Can search 25,000 citations of journal articles, research reports, etc., on philanthropy, 17,000 with abstracts. Updated daily.



• Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of research completed at African universities. Requires free registration.



• DoIS (Documents in Information Science) - Can search over 13,900 articles & 4,400 conference proceedings, 13,000 downloadable (pdf).



• Electronic Theses - Can search, browse, download (pdf) research completed at Caltech.



• Electronic Theses and Dissertations available at NCSU Libraries - Can search, browse, download (pdf) research completed at North Carolina State University.



• EPrints Repository - Can search, browse over 1,500 journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., by Australian National University faculty.



• eScholarship Repository - California Digital Library (CDL). Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 13,900 articles in journals & peer-reviewed series, working papers, etc.. Covers business, education, the social sciences.



• ETD Center - Can search, browse citations & abstracts (often with downloadable [pdf] files) of masters & doctoral theses & dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools.



• Foreign Doctoral Dissertations - Can search over 20,000 citations.



• getCITED - Can search over 30,600 citations from 3.3 million books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc., from over 10,000 academic institutions. Requires free registration.



• Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography, The - Can browse links to journal articles, reports, etc..



• Google Scholar - A ***** Google search engine. Can search scholarly literature (peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, etc.) in all broad areas of research from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, etc.. Includes citations of older works & seminal papers not available online.



• JGS Jewish Community Books - From the 2000 International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Inc. (IAJGS) Yearbook.



• Kiryat-Sefer - Can search, browse citations of books, theses & dissertations, periodicals, non-print material published in Israel, Hebraica & Judaica published worldwide.



• MIT Theses - Can search, browse citations of theses back to 1888.



• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of research worldwide.



• OAIster - Can search & link to over 9.7 million ebooks, ejournal articles, audio files, images, movies in digital collections of over 700 academic institutions.



• Official Documents - Was Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). Has citations of printed documents & links to full-text British government publications back to 1994.



• Original Sources - From Encyclopaedia Britannica. Search & browse original source documents in history, politics & government, philosophy, religion, science, the social sciences & original work of literary figures writing in English & other languages. Has a quotation finder, concordance. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, The - Can search over 100 survey reports on public attention to news stories, opinion on political & social values back to 1997.



• Philanthropic Studies Index (PSI) - Can search citations of journal articles, dissertations, working papers, Web sites on voluntarism, nonprofit organizations, fundraising, charitable giving back to 1991.



• ProQuest Digital Dissertations (PDQQ) - Can search citations & abstracts of U.S. dissertations for the last two years & download (pdf) the 1st 24 pages.



• Public Documents Masterfile - Search & browse citations of federal, state, local, international public documents back over 200 years, Includes links to World Bank publications back to 1946. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) - Can search, browse, download (pdf) citations of English-language journal articles, books, proceedings, other printed & electronic sources, most back to 1990, on publishing on the Internet.



• Theses Canada Portal - Can search over 220,000 citations, with abstracts back to 1995, download (pdf) theses submitted between 1998 & 2002.



• Theses Link Collection - Has links to collections in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, German, Sweden, the U.S., etc..



• University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER) - Can search, browse journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., back to 1945.



• VT ETDs (Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations) - Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 9,000 etexts.



• Wageningen Dissertation Abstracts - Can search citations & abstractions of theses from Wageningen University back to 1918.



• West Virginia University Electronic Theses and Dissertations - Can search, browse over 2,300 citations.



• Westlaw Campus Research - Search & browse news (hundreds of U.S newspapers, magazines, trade journals, international & foreign language publications, 400 newswires, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, company information) & law-related content (analytical sources - American Jurisprudence, American Law Journal, 800 law reviews & journals; primary law sources - US Code, federal/state/Supreme Court cases, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, European Union Law). Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.