Grey Literature for Health Sciences and Medicine

Listed below are some examples of grey literature sources related to health and medicine. This is not an exhaustive list and other specific grey literature types are listed on other pages in this guide.

• CareSearch Grey Literature

  Information and resources about palliative care. Navigation is via three doorways - Community, Health Professionals and Evidence.

• MedNar

  Mednar is a free, medically-focused deep web search engine that simultaneously searches relevant websites bringing results to one easily navigable page.

• Australian Indigenous Health Infonet

  Includes Indigenous health related publications, policies and resources.
  Search Tip - search or browse functionality

• Women's Health Victoria Library (formerly Clearinghouse)

  Women’s health policy, promotion, determinants and advocacy in Victoria. Focus areas include: women's health policy, health promotion, preventative health, health determinants and gender equity.

• Clearinghouse for Sport

  Australian sport sector information and knowledge sharing initiative. Free registration required to access.

• Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies

  Australian youth sector. Closed in 2015

• Grey Literature Report
  The report is a publication produced by the The New York Academy of Medicine between 1999 - 2016, alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and selected urban health topics

• Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU)
  PHIDU offers free online access to a comprehensive range of current (and some historical) data* at national, jurisdictional, regional and small area levels for Australia. Socioeconomic and geographical variations in health are highlighted in interactive atlases and graphs, and supported by data tables and metadata.
• WHO publications
  World Health Organization publications. Browse by topic, country or data resources.
• RAND Publication Database
  A research organization & think tank that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.
• Grey Matters: a practical tool for searching health-related grey literature
  Checklist produced by CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health)
• Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Digital Library
  MCH offers a combination of resources within its databases and pathways to the best MCH information available on other websites, from organizations, and in libraries.

• APA-FT

  Social sciences and humanities, including history, economics, politics, current affairs and culture. Australian scholarly journals, selected Australian non-scholarly journals, selected book chapters, papers. books and conference proceedings which are about.
  Selected Australian electronic journals archived in PANDORA
  Selected feature articles from Australian capital city newspapers

• APAIS-health

  Health and medicine in Australia.
  Includes a focus on legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health in Australia

• WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS)
  The WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) is the World Health Organization's digital library of published material and technical information in full text.

• Australian Institute of Health & Welfare
  The AIHW releases reports, data tables and other key resources that draw on national major health and welfare data collections
• Department of Health publications
  A listing of publications, sorted by A-Z and topics on the Australian Government Department of Health websites.
• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC)
  The Commission has an extensive library of resources - from medication charts and labels, fact sheets and user guides, to consensus statements and comprehensive reports.
• Australian Drug Information Network
  Find Alcohol and Drug Foundation's publications, including stigma, Prevention Research, factsheets, booklets, infographics and Annual Reports. Registration required for ADF library access
• Primary Health Care Research and Information Service

  The Primary Health Care Research and Information Service (PHCRIS) is a research and knowledge exchange organisation based at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute. Activities conducted include a Primary Health Care Research Conference, rapid reviews of evidence to support PHC policy and practice and commissioned research in the PHC setting.

• Australia.gov.au links you to the right information and service on around 900 Australian Government websites, as well as some state and territory sites.
• Child Family Community Australia (CFCA)

  Evidence and resources for the child and family sector. For practitioners working with children, families and communities.