Research Guides: Science: Grey Literature

Grey Literature

Grey literature databases identify resources that are key to research and scholarship. Many are open resources that go through a quality control process before they are published.

Definitions are scholarly dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks that help define terms and provide additional context. A select list includes:

Dictionary Plus: Science & Technology (2016)

Gale Encyclopedia of Science (2021)

Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues (2019)

Wikipedia

Open Education Resources (OERs) are digital ebooks and learning objects that can be used as open textbooks on a wide variety of general and disciplinary subjects.

Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
- Interdisciplinary
- Includes Oxford Quick Reference of core subject, quotation, and language dictionaries and Oxford Reference Library of companions and multi-volume encyclopedias for longer, in-depth, essays and specialist definitions.
- Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
- Permitted Uses
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
- In-depth, peer-reviewed essays and introductions by leading scholars in Archaeology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Criminology, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, and Sociology
- Permitted Uses