Grey Literature in Health Research

AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.

Publicly available reports from the US Department of Defense.

"figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner."

The Georgetown Medical Review is an academic journal created, authored, edited, and published by medical students for medical students.

"As of January 2017, the Grey Literature Report website and database will be discontinued and will no longer be updated, but the resources will still be accessible." The Grey Literature Report was 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.

The Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the National Academies (formerly Institute of Medicine, IOM) publish reports that provide objective and straightforward advice to decision makers and the public. This site includes reports published after 1998.

You can search over 300 HTA agencies, summarized reviews groups, etc.; from the HTAi.org Vortal.

Mednar is a free, medically-focused deep web search engine that includes a lot of grey literature.

"Nature Precedings was launched in 2007 as NPG’s preprint server for the Life Science community. Since 2007, technological advances and the needs of the research community have evolved to the extent that the Nature Precedings site is unsustainable as it was originally conceived. As a result, Nature Precedings ceased accepting new submissions as of April 3rd, 2012." The archive is still maintained.

A custom Google search engine created by ALA's Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).

“OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors.”

A collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs, Open Dissertations is a open-access citation database that provides information about dissertations and theses, with links to institutional repositories.

[Shutting down summer 2022] Open access to 700,000 European grey literature documents on many subject, including biological and medical sciences.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent organization created to help people make informed health care decisions and improve health care delivery. PCORI will commission research that is guided by patients, caregivers and the broader health care community and will produce high integrity, evidence-based information.

Created by UCSF, SIREN stands for Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network. "This Evidence Library contains research articles, issue briefs, reports, and commentaries that either focus on or are relevant to evaluating health care-based interventions that address patients’ social and economic needs. We prioritize for inclusion resources that carefully describe and evaluate the social needs components of these interventions, and to a lesser extent those where the social components are mentioned but are not the primary focus of the work. The library currently includes only papers published since the year 2000."

A Google Custom Search of more than 700 think tanks and research centers, provided by Harvard Kennedy School.

Federated search of many national and international resources that provide access to gray literature. Several language options are available.