This comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 to the present that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from international conferences.
A repository of standardized and structured statistical data including 157 billion data points, 12.6 billion data sets, and over 500 source databases. Users can easily compare and contrast multiple data series, perform statistical calculations, and customize output views.
Current and archived information from thousands of local, regional, national, and international news sources including newspaper titles, newswires, web editions, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents, and other publications. Also Included in this collection are Ethnic, African American, Military, Government & Defense, South Carolina news sources image editions of The Post and Courier and The State.
Provides context for the world's major political and economic developments, including recent election results for every country world, the ability to compare national statistics in graph and tabular form, and more.
Leverage thousands of U.S. data indicators to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block up to the national level. Users can also upload data and customize searches.
"Grey literature" refers to stuff that is rigorous and well-researched, but doesn't neatly fit into the major categories of peer-reviewed articles and scholarly books.
Examples of grey literature:
Whether or not grey literature will be useful and appropriate depends on your information need and where the information is coming from.
The US government (as well as many governments around the world and international governing bodies, such as the United Nations) produces a vast amount of information. Some examples of government information include: legislation, case law, research and policy papers, census data, consumer publications, and much, much more.
Unless it is classified, most government information is freely available on the web. You can find much of it through the GovInfo portal.
GPO's official system for Federal information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. Provides free online access to official Federal Government publications.
