Library guides: Engineering: Grey literature

Key resources

Dimensions This link opens in a new window
A linked research data platform that includes research publications, clinical trials, datasets, patents, and policy documents. Policy documents range from guidelines, reports and white papers from government, research, and international organisations. For Australian content, Dimensions includes documents from the Analysis & Policy Observatory and Australian government departments.

Google advanced search
Allows search by domain, file type, and other beneficial limit functions for searching grey literature. For example, to find grey literature available from government websites in the form of PDF documents, enter relevant keywords for your topic, then add .gov.au to the domain field and select the pdf file type.
Transport research international documentation (TRID)
The TRID Database contains more than 1.3 million records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and journal articles in the field of transportation research.
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TRID includes:
TRIS (Transportation Research Information Services) Database from the Transportation Research Board (TRB)
ITRD (International Transport Research Documentation) Database from the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre
ATRI (Australian Transport Index) from the Australian Road Research Board
Australian Government Web Archive
Collection of Australian Commonwealth Government websites maintained by the National Library of Australia. (2011-)

National technical reports library (NTRL) This link opens in a new window
A central source of U.S. Government-sponsored research and development reports. 1966+

TRAIL
The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogues, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.
Thermopedia
An A-to-Z guide to thermodynamics, heat & mass transfer, and fluids engineering.
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Based on the International Encyclopedia of Heat and Mass Transfer and covers a wide range of fundamental topics including thermodynamics and physical properties, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and basic equations and their methods of solution. Details of industrial processes and plants and of equipment involving fluid mechanics and heat transfer are also presented.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Covers statistics across a range of areas including industry, environment, health, labour, economy and people.
Structurae
International database and gallery of structures covering works of structural and civil engineering. Documents technical aspects of construction and design.
Google dataset search
Find datasets stored across thousands of online repositories.