Gray/Grey Literature: Sciences
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
Conference Proceedings
- Scopus This link opens in a new window[Help Searching Scopus]Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
- Web of ScienceIncludes conference proceedings from sciences and social sciences disciplines.
Dissertations and Theses
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses- Health and MedicineIncludes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and DissertationsAn international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. The NDLTD Union Catalog, which is freely available, contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations.
Resources by discipline
Listed below are links to sources of gray/grey scientific literature, organized by discipline. In the column on the left of the page are resources for finding conference proceedings or dissertations for all scientific disciplines.
General Sciences
Astronomy
- SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System This link opens in a new window
Biology
- JoVE Unlimited This link opens in a new window
Energy
- OSTI.GOV (Previously called: SciTech Connect) This link opens in a new window
Environmental Sciences
- UNdata This link opens in a new window
Geoscience
Gray/Grey Scientific Literature
If you need assistance searching for gray/grey scientific literature, please contact the Sciences Library at lib-sciences@uiowa.edu or 319-335-3083.
Contributors
Jennifer DeBerg,
Hardin Library Clinical Education Librarian
Carol Hollier
Sciences Reference and Outreach Librarian
Brett Cloyd
Social Sciences and Public Policy Librarian