Library guides: Grey Literature: Medicine & Population health

Key resources

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Includes research publications, funding information, clinical trials, datasets, patents and policy documents.

Google advanced search
Allows search by domain, file type, and other beneficial limit functions for searching grey literature.
WHO | IRIS
IRIS is the World Health Organisation's Institutional Repository for Information Sharing. The database provides access to all World Health Organisation publications.
World Bank documents & reports
Collection of more than 181,463 World Bank operational documents and working papers. Includes international health and related disciplines.
International HTA Database
Provides access to bibliographic information about ongoing and published health technology assessments commissioned or undertaken by HTA organisations from around the world. A valuable source for identifying grey literature as much of the information it contains is only available directly from individual funding agencies.
ClinicalTrials.gov
US National Library of Medicine database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.
Australian Government Web Archive
Collection of Australian Commonwealth Government websites maintained by the National Library of Australia. (2011-)

National technical reports library (NTRL) This link opens in a new window
A central source of U.S. Government-sponsored research and development reports. 1966+

Grey matters: a practical search tool for evidence-based medicine
A grey literature tool developed by The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). This searchable list includes sites for health technology assessment agencies, health economics, clinical practice guidelines, free databases, statistics and more, with international coverage.
Google dataset search
Find datasets stored across thousands of online repositories.