Government reports, theses, conference papers and working papers: what grey literature is, where the term came from, why research needs it, and why it is so hard to find and preser
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The smartphones we use contain thousands, even tens of thousands, of files and apps. What would happen if photos, documents, and music files were all mixed together on a single scr