Using Search Engines to Find Grey Lit
Google offers an Advanced Search option where certain limiters can be used to locate grey literature.
- Language of material
- Region of publication
- Date last updated
- Website/Domain
- You can target results only from a specific website, such as Wikipedia
- You can also target results from a given domain (.edu, .gov, and others)
- Where search terms appear (title, text, URL, etc.)
- File type (.pdf, .docx, .doc, etc.)
With these specifiers, authors can narrow down a Google search from millions of results down to more reasonable and accurate numbers.
