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General Gray Literature
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- African-AmericanTheses and Dissertations 1907-2002 - 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.
- 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 - 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 - 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.
- 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 - Has citations of printed documents & links to full-text British government publications back to 1994.
- 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.
- 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.
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