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Fifty Shades of Grey Literature: A Primer for Biomedical Librarians
Ahlam A. Saleh, Research LibrarianArizona Health Sciences LibraryUniversity of Arizona
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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 resources
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Is it relevant to me?
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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”
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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• Patents
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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
information
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What are the issues?
• Definition• Finding it• Obtaining complete data• Obtaining full text• Quality
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Strategies for locating
• Go directly to the source • Search general or specialized databases• Search catalogs• Search grey literature databases• Conduct a customized Google search• Contact others
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GREY LITERATURE DATABASES
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CONFERENCE MATERIAL
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Finding Conference Material
• General databases• Specialized databases• Catalogs• Direct source
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REPORTS
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Finding Reports
• Government• Foundations• Organizations
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DISSERTATIONS & THESES
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Finding Dissertations & Theses
• General databases• Specialized databases• Repositories• Catalogs
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NDLTD http://search.ndltd.org/index.php
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ONGOING RESEARCH
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Finding Ongoing Research
• ClinicalTrials.gov https://clinicaltrials.gov/• ISRCTN registry http://www.isrctn.com/• WHO ICTRP http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/
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HSRProjhttps://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hsr_project/home_proj.cfm
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DATA
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Finding Data
• Government websites• Organization websites• Institutional repositories• Data repositories• Registry of data repositories
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National Center for Health Statisticshttp://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
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Phpartners Health Data Tools & StatisticsPartners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
https://phpartners.org/
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Registry of Research Data Repositorieshttp://service.re3data.org
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Thank you!
Thank you!
Ahlam A. Saleh, Research LibrarianArizona Health Sciences Library
University of [email protected]