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Grey literature is heavily used and highly valued.Policy grey literature is often paid for by public funds.
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The most prominent or crucial resources used [by policy workers] are reports (81%), journal articles (75%), discussion papers (69%), briefings, reviews and guides (66%), and data sets (61%). **Houghton, L.A., Thomas, J., & Weldon, P. (2014). Where is the evidence: Realising the value of grey literature for public policy and practice. Melbourne: Swinburne Institute for Social Research. Retrieved from https://apo.org.au/node/42299 **
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A note about 'cited reference searching':
Through a cited reference search, you can discover how a known idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended, or corrected. Discover who’s citing your research and the impact your work is having on other researchers in the world.
In the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, cited reference searching enables you to find articles that refer to and/or include an illustration of a work of art or a music score. These references are called implicit citations.
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Dimensions is a Next-generation Research and Discovery Platform Linking 124 Million Documents and brought to researchers by a UOM subscription to the full package including references to publications, grants, patents, clinical trails, as well as policy documents linked to global research outputs.
A search by the report title in full text (full data) may expose additional publications and policy documents referencing this work. [Press the carriage return to start the search].
Filter either to publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, policy documents to unpack/analyse the various categories of relationships and impacts. Use Analytical views to explore on micro-level and to draw on many available visualisations. These can be downloaded as .jpeg or .png if needed.
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After accessing Factiva, switch to the 'Search form' view.
To include content from International Newsstream collections and to find potential media attention to your research outputs, access Proquest Central, which also features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.
Enter the search in the following format:
"factors influencing the educational performance of males and females in school" site:.edu.au
***After opening a link to a document or web page, use the (CTRL + F) feature to allow isolating specific words or phrases in the text.
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Enter the search in the following format:
"factors influencing the educational performance of males and females in school" site:.gov.au
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Because the database provides access to unique content - including journal articles, conference papers, theses, government reports, discussion papers and book chapters - many of which are unavailable electronically elsewhere - it provides an additional way of discovery of literature (often grey literature too) that cites grey literature in the context of the research covered.
** This is done to confirm that the source is indeed listing the work in its reference list. On opening the PDF of the item use the 'CTRL + F' feature and type in the first words of the title to confirm the source should be included in the manually produced metric [citation count] **