Subject guides: Rehabilitation Counselling: Grey Literature

Grey Literature Sources

Grey Matters
Checklist of sites to search for grey literature

What is 'grey literature'? Documents that are not published through traditional commercial channels. It includes reports, conference papers, dissertations, technical & other trade papers and documents in repositories.

Australian Policy Online (Health section) Great source of news and links for Australian health policy. Hosted by Swinburne University of Technology's Institute of Social Research.
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (University of York)
DARE contains abstracts of quality assessed systematic reviews and details of all Cochrane reviews and protocols.
NHS EED contains abstracts of quality assessed economic evaluations.
DARE and NHS EED include details of abstracts in the process of being written and these can be 'fast-tracked' on request.
HTA brings together details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments from around the world.
Grey Literature Guide from New York University
Great collection of links
The Grey Literature Report - NY Academy of Medicine
A bimonthly publication of The New York Academy of Medicine Library alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics.
IDEAS on RePEc
Largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet...part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc.
SIGLE (System for Information on Gray Literature in Europe)
Updated to 2005. Great collection of government documents.
WHOLIS (World Health Organization library database)
International material from a wide variety of sources

Digital repositories

Nature Precedings
Preprint server for biomedical sciences, chemistry and earth sciences. (Also indexed by Google Scholar and OAlster if you prefer a broader search)
OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open archive digital resources that was built by harvesting from open archive collections worldwide..
OpenDOAR
A global directory of Open Access repositories and their policies. It contains unpublished documents and some that have already been published in other forms.
Visit the Sydney University eScholarship Repository

Guidelines

Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines
Australian Government Dept of Health Resources
Publications include: guidelines, reports and more.
ClinicalKey
This database has international guidelines.
National Guideline Clearinghouse (US)
Broad collection of guidelines mainly on health related topics
NHMRC Publications Index
Range of health related guidelines, policies, statements, reports and factsheets.
NHS Evidence - National Library of Guidelines (UK)
Public Health Agency of Canada Guidelines
Trip Database (Turning Research Into Practice)
Trip is a clinical search engine. Search the topic then filter to guidelines.

Theses

Finding Theses
Find a thesis from Sydney University, Australian, New Zealand and overseas universities.
Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global
An authoritative source for doctoral dissertations and master's theses, particularly North American.

Databases that contain conference papers

Search tools and tips

Google
Use Google's Advanced Search and limit to the domain of a particular level of government eg. limit to: .nsw.gov.au
PAIS International
Public Affairs Information Service - try simple one or two words searches to bring up reports, organizations etc. on the topic.