Library Guides: Grey Literature for STEMM: Science and Engineering

Science and Engineering

Listed below are some examples of grey literature sources related to Science, Engineering and IT. This is not an exhaustive list, there may be other specialist or unique sources such a preprint servers, archives and organisations that collect or publish grey in your area of research.

Sources

American Society of Civil Engineers
Select Books - Proceedings to browse the proceedings from some of the key engineering conferences.
ArXiv
Open access to resources within the areas of Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.
Australian Policy Online (Agriculture)
Australian Policy Online -Natural Environment
BioHackrXiv
Preprint server to report on works done during BioHackathons, CodeFests, Sprints or similar events and related to Life Sciences and Health Care domain
bioRxiv: the preprint server for Biology
Free online archive for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. By posting preprints here, authors can make their findings immediately available to the scientific community & receive feedback on manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.

NB: Pre-prints are not peer-reviewed so should not be relied upon without context to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information without consulting multiple experts in the field.
Bureau of Meterology (Australia) Data services
Access past weather and climate information from the Bureau's vast data archives
ChemRxiv
Open access preprint archive for chemistry. Operated by the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry and German Chemical Society
CSIRO data portal
Provides access to research data, software and other digital assets published by CSIRO.
ECSarXiv
A free preprint service for electrochemistry and solid state science and technology
Geoscience Australia
Geoscience Australia is Australia's pre-eminent public sector geoscience organisation. The nation's advisor on the geology and geography of Australia.
Google dataset search
Find datasets stored across thousands of online repositories.
IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings
The IEEE Xplore digital library contains full text proceedings from over 1,200 IEEE and IET annual conferences.
National technical reports library (NTRL)
A central source of U.S. Government-sponsored research and development reports from 1966 onwards.
Research Data Australia
Data from 100+ Australian research organisations, government agencies, and cultural institutions.
Science.gov
(US): Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites, with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS)
Includes published and ongoing research, covering all modes and disciplines of transportation.