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Finding Grey Literature: Health & Medical

This guide provides tools and methods to locate grey literature

Useful resources

Grey Literature searching: progress and emerging patterns
This presentation by Jess Tyndall from Flinders University was presented at the Health Libraries Australia Professional Development Day in 2017. It covers sources of grey literature and how to find it, as well as some of the advantages and pitfalls about using it in systematic reviews.

Government sources

Australian Sources

Australian Institute of Health & Welfare
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Subject areas include:
Ageing and aged care
Alcohol and other drugs
Arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases
Burden of disease
Cancer
Cardiovascular health
Children, youth and families
Chronic diseases
Chronic kidney disease
Data standards
Diabetes
eHealth
Eye health
Expenditure
Functioning and disability
Health Priority Areas
Hospitals
Housing and homelessness
Indicators
Indigenous Australians
International collaboration
Labour force
Mental health
METeOR (metadata registry for health and welfare)
Mortality
Palliative care
Population health
Prisoner health and juvenile justice
Risk factors
Rural health
Safety and quality of health care
Veterans' health
Australian Drug Information Network
Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet
CareSearch
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Primary Health Care Research and Information Service

International Sources

United States

United Kingdom

National Institute for Health Research Dissemination Centre

Databases & search engines

Scopus

Available to James Cook University users only.
Biosis Citation Index

Available to James Cook University users only.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)

Available to James Cook University users only.

MedNar

Preprint Servers, Open Archives & Repositories

Clinical trials

Guidelines and processes

Searching clinical trials registers: Guide for systematic reviewers

Systematic Review Registers

Joanna Briggs Institute EBP

Available to James Cook University users only.

Campbell Title Registrations

Guidelines

Other research in progress

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