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Permalink Reply by Gautam Bahl on December 14, 2010 at 2:48

Dear Deepak

attached article will give you insight into the topic.

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• GL3,_Gokhale,_1998,_Conference_Preprint.pdf, 1.1 MB

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Permalink Reply by Jayshree Dave on December 14, 2010 at 17:17

The term grey literature refers to a wide range of types of informational material which is made available to the general public by public and private sector organisations whose function is not primarily publishing. Such information includes reports, brochures, guides, dissertations, product information, budgetary data, memoranda, and research findings. A more formal definition is: “That which is produced on all levels of government, academia, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers”.

The key difference between other sorts of publishing and grey literature is that the latter is not produced as a commercial undertaking, but as part of a communications process.

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Permalink Reply by Nadeem Sohail on December 14, 2010 at 18:07

Gray Literature refers to papers, reports, technical notes or other documents produced and published by governmental agencies, academic institutions and other groups that are not distributed or indexed by commercial publishers. Many of these documents are difficult to locate and obtain.

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