Apprenticeship Research​ (D’Cuoto and Rosenhan, 2015):

To conduct apprenticeship research, students will need to engage with grey literature.

Grey literature refers to a wide range of records and materials that were not published or distributed in traditional and commercial ways. Examples include reports, statistics, policies, newsletters, speeches, design or marketing standards, and other types of information that is produced at the organization level. Typically, grey literature is current and locally relevant.

Local, industry, and institutional records are grey literature.

Grey literature gets darker the more personal a record is, and it gets lighter the more worldly significant it becomes. When records become more nationally/worldly, they are more edited and peer reviewed. While more personal records, like a diary or social media posts, do not engage with a long or extensive editing process. They have a smaller audience and are specific to a person or an institution. This is what makes them grey literature.

Grey Literature is typically institution or person specific, and the UW-Stout Archives/Institutional Repository holds the grey literature connected to UW-Stout.