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First Nations Australia Subject Guide

Finding reports, grey literature, and theses

Why use grey literature, data, statistics?

Grey literature is research that has not been published commercially and is therefore not necessarily searchable via the standard databases and search engines. 

Examples of grey literature: government reports, conference proceedings, theses / dissertations, research reports, maps.

Find grey literature

Data and statistics

Find data and statistics

Data and statistics can provide useful evidence for assignments. Data is the original information that statistics are created from while statistics interpret and summarise data. 

These sites are a good starting point for your research.