Often you may searching for information on an issue that is extremely current and hasn’t been studied in depth enough for there to be much or any published work done on it. Especially when creating new legislation.
Grey literature like theses and dissertations as well as conference proceedings can be very valuable research tools there is not a large body of research on the issue
ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/
Academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/
Open Access Theses and Dissertations and other repositories
https://oatd.org/
