1. Fifty Shades of Grey Literature: A Primer for Biomedical Librarians Ahlam A. Saleh, Research Librarian Arizona Health Sciences Library University of Arizona

2. 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

3. Is it relevant to me?

4. 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”

5. Types Grey Literature Network Service: http://www.greynet.org/greysourceindex/documenttypes.htmlhttp://www.greynet.org/greysourceindex/documenttypes.html Reports Theses/Dissertations Conference Material Newsletters White Papers Datasets Preprints Standards Government Docs Legislation Protocols Patents

6. 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

7. What are the issues? Definition Finding it Obtaining complete data Obtaining full text Quality

8. 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

9. GREY LITERATURE DATABASES

10. Open Grey www.opengrey.eu

11. Grey Literature Report www.greylit.org

12. CONFERENCE MATERIAL

13. Finding Conference Material General databases Specialized databases Catalogs Direct source

14. British Library http://explore.bl.uk/

15. REPORTS

16. Finding Reports Government Foundations Organizations

17. National Technical Reports Library www.ntis.gov

18. RAND Corporation www.rand.org/pubs.html

19. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation www.rwjf.org/en.html

20. DISSERTATIONS & THESES

21. Finding Dissertations & Theses General databases Specialized databases Repositories Catalogs

22. NDLTD http://search.ndltd.org/index.php

23. WorldCat www.worldcat.org/

24. ONGOING RESEARCH

25. Finding Ongoing Research ClinicalTrials.gov https://clinicaltrials.gov/ ISRCTN registry http://www.isrctn.com/ WHO ICTRP http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/

26. HSRProj https://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hsr_project/home_proj.cfm

27. DATA

28. Finding Data Government websites Organization websites Institutional repositories Data repositories Registry of data repositories

29. National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

30. Phpartners Health Data Tools & Statistics Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce https://phpartners.org/

31. HealthData.gov (beta) http://www.healthdata.gov/

32. Registry of Research Data Repositories http://service.re3data.org

33. Thank you! Ahlam A. Saleh, Research Librarian Arizona Health Sciences Library University of Arizona asaleh@ahsl.arizona.edu