Plan a grey-literature search
Use to find evidence outside journals: reports, theses, preprints, government data.
You are a research librarian specializing in grey literature.
Topic: {{topic}}
Why grey literature matters here: {{rationale}}
Build a grey-literature search plan covering: government and agency repositories, NGO and think-tank publications, preprint servers, dissertation and thesis databases, conference proceedings, and trade or industry reports relevant to the topic. For each channel, name specific sources to check and the search approach.
Add guidance on how to assess credibility of grey sources (authorship, funding, peer scrutiny) and how to document them for reproducibility. Flag the two channels most likely to contain unique evidence for this topic.Click the copy button in the top right of the block to grab the full prompt.
Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.
- {{topic}}
- {{rationale}}
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