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What is Grey Literature?
Grey Literature is a field in library and Information science that deals with the production, distribution, and access to multiple document types produced on all levels of government, academia, business, and organization in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing (i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body). Our purpose is to direct you to health sciences focused literature that might otherwise be lost because it is not indexed in our commonly used tools such as PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, etc.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
The National Technical Information Service acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports in existence.
Contains research across the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities from journals, books and conference proceedings. Features citation linking, hot papers, and highly cited articles.
Includes Web of Science Core Collection (1900-), BIOSIS Citation Index (1926-), Current Contents Connect (1998-), Data Citation Index (1900-), Derwent Innovations Index (1963-), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980-), MEDLINE® (1950-), Russian Science Citation Index (2005-), and SciELO Citation Index (2002-). Tools include InCites Benchmarking & Analytics, Journal Citation Reports, and Essential Science Indicators.