Rehabilitation Counselling: Grey Literature

Checklist of sites to search for grey literature

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.

Great collection of links

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.

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.

Updated to 2005. Great collection of government documents.

International material from a wide variety of sources

Preprint server for biomedical sciences, chemistry and earth sciences. (Also indexed by Google Scholar and OAlster if you prefer a broader search)

OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open archive digital resources that was built by harvesting from open archive collections worldwide..

A global directory of Open Access repositories and their policies. It contains unpublished documents and some that have already been published in other forms.

Publications include: guidelines, reports and more.

This database has international guidelines.

Broad collection of guidelines mainly on health related topics

Range of health related guidelines, policies, statements, reports and factsheets.

Trip is a clinical search engine. Search the topic then filter to guidelines.

Find a thesis from Sydney University, Australian, New Zealand and overseas universities.

An authoritative source for doctoral dissertations and master's theses, particularly North American.

Use Google's Advanced Search and limit to the domain of a particular level of government eg. limit to: .nsw.gov.au

Public Affairs Information Service - try simple one or two words searches to bring up reports, organizations etc. on the topic.