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Grey Literature in Nursing: Higher Education

What is higher education?

Higher Education includes:
  • Repositories of information from academic institutions not published in commercial form, such as:
    • Correspondence
    • Curricula
    • Departmental and research institution reports
    • Unpublished research, such as:
      • Learning objects
      • Working documents
      • Preprint manuscripts
      • Scientific or research data sets

What is the value of higher education?

  • Have themes tied to grants and funding from governmental organizations.
  • Lack political bias, but may reflect academic specialties that focus on a specific field of research within a broader discipline (e.g., geriatric nursing or violence and trauma within nursing).
  • Provide avenues for faculty researchers to communicate working papers and ideas at an early stage of research.

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