What is Grey Literature

Grey literature is documented information that has not been passed through formal scientific communication process i.e. it has not been reviewed, edited, and presented as a book, review/original/research journal article or a book chapter. Most grey literature can be found in form of Blogs, Conference papers/proceedings, Discussion Forums, Dissertations and theses, Email discussions, field/activity reports, Interviews, Market reports, Newsletters, Pamphlets, Patents, Policy statements, Data, Pre-print articles, Research reports, Statistical Reports, Survey results, Tweets, Wikis, Working papers.

KEFRI has generated a lot of grey literature from its research activities which include field visits reports, incidence reports, surveys, baseline studies, laboratory and experiment studies, pre-prints (publications that did not get published), workshops/seminars course materials and conference presentations.

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How to cite this definition:

Kamau, Victor Gitau (2025). What is Grey Literature. KEFRI. http://km.kefri.org/Main/GreyLiterature

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