A Primer for Biomedical Librarians Ahlam A Saleh Research Librarian Arizona Health Sciences Library University of Arizona Agenda Define grey literature Identify types of grey literature Review the benefits and challenges ID: 742941
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Fifty Shades of Grey Literature: A Primer for Biomedical Librarians
Ahlam A. Saleh, Research Librarian
Arizona Health Sciences Library
University of ArizonaSlide2
Agenda
Define grey literature
Identify types of grey literature
Review the benefits and challenges
Describe strategies for locating various types of grey literature
List examples of resourcesSlide3
Is it relevant to me?Slide4
Definition
1997-
The Luxembourg Convention on Grey Literature;
expanded in New
York
“that which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers
i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body
”Slide5
Types
Grey Literature Network Service:
http://
www.greynet.org/greysourceindex/documenttypes.html
Reports
Theses/Dissertations
Conference Material
Newsletters
White Papers
Datasets
Preprints
Standards
Government Docs
Legislation
Protocols
PatentsSlide6
Why is it important?
More current
More global
May be the only source for that type of information
May be the only source of documentation of that informationSlide7
What are the issues?
Definition
Finding it
Obtaining complete data
Obtaining full text
QualitySlide8
Strategies for locating
Go
directly to
the source
Search general or
specialized
databases
Search catalogs
Search
grey literature databases
Conduct a customized Google searchContact othersSlide9
Grey literature databasesSlide10
Open Grey
www.opengrey.euSlide11
Grey Literature Report
www.greylit.orgSlide12
Conference materialSlide13
Finding Conference Material
General databases
Specialized databases
Catalogs
Direct sourceSlide14
British Library
http://explore.bl.uk/Slide15
REPORTSSlide16
Finding Reports
Government
Foundations
OrganizationsSlide17
National Technical Reports Library
www.ntis.gov Slide18
RAND Corporation
www.rand.org/pubs.htmlSlide19
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
www.rwjf.org/en.htmlSlide20
Dissertations & thesesSlide21
Finding Dissertations & Theses
General databases
Specialized databases
Repositories
CatalogsSlide22
NDLTD
http
://search.ndltd.org/index.phpSlide23
WorldCat
www.worldcat.org
/Slide24
ongoing researchSlide25
Finding Ongoing Research
ClinicalTrials.gov
https://clinicaltrials.gov/
ISRCTN registry
http
://www.isrctn.com/
WHO ICTRP
http
://www.who.int/ictrp/en
/Slide26
HSRProj
https://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hsr_project/home_proj.cfmSlide27
dataSlide28
Finding Data
Government websites
Organization websites
Institutional repositories
Data
repositories
Registry of
data repositoriesSlide29
National Center for Health Statistics
http://
www.cdc.gov/nchs
/Slide30
Phpartners Health Data Tools & Statistics
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health
Workforce
https
://phpartners.org/Slide31
HealthData.gov (beta)
http://www.healthdata.gov/Slide32
Registry of Research Data Repositories
http://
service.re3data.org Slide33
Thank you!
Thank you!
Ahlam A. Saleh, Research Librarian
Arizona Health Sciences Library
University of Arizona
asaleh@ahsl.arizona.edu