Subject Guides: Medicine: Grey literature

Key resources

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
The International HTA (Health Technology Assessment) 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.
Advanced Google search
Allows search by domain, file type and other beneficial limit functions for searching grey literature.
Australian Government Web Archive
Collection of Australian Commonwealth Government websites maintained by the National Library of Australia. (2011-)

Dimensions
A linked research data platform that includes research publications, clinical trials, datasets, patents and policy documents. Policy documents range from guidelines, reports and white papers from government, research and international organisations. For Australian content, Dimensions includes documents from the Analysis & Policy Observatory and Australian government departments.
National technical reports library (NTRL)
A central source of U.S. Government-sponsored research and development reports. 1966+

Grey matters: a practical search tool for evidence-based medicine
Grey literature checklist developed by The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). International coverage and organised by topic the list includes sites for health technology assessment agencies, health economics, clinical practice guidelines, free databases, statistics and more.
New York Academy of Medicine: The grey literature report
A comprehensive urban health resource produced by The New York Academy of Medicine between 1999 and 2016. During that time, it was the leading service of its kind in the United States.