Why Search for Grey Literature
Grey literature: An important resource in systematic reviews
Grey literature methodologies for including in systematic reviews
Appraising Grey Literature: The AACODS checklist is designed to enable evaluation and critical appraisal of grey literature.
A short introduction to the use of grey literature in evidence-based medicine.Click the image to see the presentation.
"The results of a 1980 clinical trial on heart drug Lorcainide were not published until a decade later. Doctors didn't know that more people died in the trial who were given Lorcainide than who were taking the placebo. It has been estimated that over 100,000 people died avoidably because they were prescribed drugs in the same class. Read about how the researchers were able to get the results of the study published: http://bit.ly/17pYtLJ"
National Grey Literature Collection: The National Grey Literature Collection holds the hard copy grey literature collection of the former North Grey Literature Service. Working with the Knowledge and Library Service team at NHS England, The King’s Fund Knowledge Service has taken on the records from the National Grey Literature Collection (All Cats are Grey website) and is currently working on integrating them into its database.
Grey Matters: A Practical Tool for Searching Health-related Grey Literature: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) free online resource for grey literature searching. This checklist is intended for librarians; information specialists; and researchers who are producing systematic reviews, HTAs, drug assessments, or economic evaluations.
Web Search Tools
TRIP Database https://www.tripdatabase.com/ A clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
MEDNAR (USA) http://mednar.com/mednar/desktop/en/search.html A free, medically-focused deep web search engine.
Gov.uk https://www.gov.uk/government/publications
Epistemonikos https://www.epistemonikos.org/en/
Institutional Repositories
OpenDoar https://opendoar.ac.uk/search Directory of academic open access repositories.
Oaister - http://www.oclc.org/en/oaister.html A union catalogue of millions of records that represent open access resources. Built through harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
BASE - https://www.base-search.net/ Provides access to more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources.
Databases
Cochrane Library http://www.cochranelibrary.com/
The King's Fund Library Database https://koha.kingsfund.org.uk holds material dating from 1897 to the present day, with a focus on health and social care policy and management, primarily in the United Kingdom and including all The King’s Fund publications from 1898 onwards.
Library Catalogues
JISC Library Hub Discover https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk Provides access to details of materials held in over 200 UK national, academic and specialist libraries.
British Library http://explore.bl.uk/
Theses
eTHOS - http://ethos.bl.uk/ UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s
doctoral research theses. NB. Due to a cyber attack, this service is currently unavailable and work is ongoing to restore access.
Global ETD Search - http://search.ndltd.org/index.php Search the 4,872,302 electronic theses and dissertations contained inthe NDLTD archive
OATD - Open Access Theses and Dissertations https://oatd.org/ Advanced research and scholarship. Theses and dissertations,
free to find, free to use.
DART-Europe E-theses Portal - http://www.dart-europe.eu/About/info.php A partnership of research libraries and library consortia working together to improve access to European research theses.
PROQUEST - https://www.proquest.com/
Websites & Bulletins
King's Fund https://www.kingsfund.org.uk The King's Fund's Information and Knowledge Services provide a unique and free source of information on health and social care policy and management
Nuffield Trust http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/ Provides evidence-based research and policy analysis.
The Health Foundation http://www.health.org.uk/ Publications are available to download. Hard copies of many publications can also be ordered free of charge.
NESTA http://www.nesta.org.uk/ Original research and influential policy work in the field of innovation