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Creative Arts 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 a valuable source of new research (conference papers), local information, policies and programs (industry and government bodies).

Examples include government reports, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, research reports, data and 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.