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Unit 5: Systematic reviewing - Finding grey literature

Theses

  • DART-Europe - browse and search open-access research theses.
  • EthOS - British Library site with free searching of more than 250,000 UK PhD theses. Some full text items available. Register or login to order an electronic version of a thesis. Use the advanced search to combine search terms with ‘And’, ‘Or’ or ‘And NOT’. Searches on Thesis Title, Abstract, LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) and Subject Keyword are some of the options available.
  • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.

Conference Proceedings

  • Web of Science (also known as the Web of Knowledge and Science Citation Index) The default search allows you to combine search terms with ‘And’, ‘Or’, ‘Not’ and ‘SAME’. You can search specifically on ‘Conference’ as well as by topic and title. There is a good help section within this database.

Practice Guidelines

  • Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) Guidelines  
  • Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) lets you identify the high quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.
  • eGuidelines provides index and summaries of national and European Union (EU) clinical guidelines for primary and shared care, sponsored by independent professional bodies includes guidelines released by NICE; commended by the National Health Service (NHS) and summaries of working party guidelines.
  • NHS Evidence - National Library of Guidelines is a collection of guidelines for the NHS.  It is based on the guidelines produced by NICE and other national agencies.  It focuses on guidelines produced in the UK, but where no UK guideline is available, guidelines from other countries are included in the collection.
  • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidance covers three main areas: public health, health technologies and clinical practice.
  • The NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries (formerly PRODIGY) are a reliable source of evidence-based information and practical 'know how' about the common conditions managed in primary care. They are aimed at healthcare professionals working in primary and first-contact care.
  • SCIE practice guides a free online resource which bring together information, research and current good practice about particular areas of social care. The guides give users the opportunity to develop their own knowledge about what works well and apply it effectively in their day-to-day work.

Repositories

  • OAIster (University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service). Previously difficult-to-access academic digital resources.
  • OpenDOAR - directory of open access repositories.
  • Repositories of Primary Sources – more than 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for researchers.

Subject Gateways: evaluated information on the Internet

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SMILE - Systematic Reviewing by Dr Helen Marlborough, Glasgow University and Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.