Medicine: Searching for grey literature

Finding grey literature can be a challenging element of research and assessed work. This course explains what grey literature is and why it should be included in systematic or literature reviews. It also covers sites and sources of grey literature, and how to search Google more effectively, with demonstrations of specific platforms and search techniques designed to retrieve relevant grey literature.

This course is aimed at those who are including grey literature in their systematic or literature reviews.

Postgraduates in science, and medicine in particular; researchers in science, and medicine in particular

This session will cover

• What is grey literature?​

• Why grey literature should be included in literature searches and

systematic reviews​

• Sites and sources of grey literature​

• Demonstrations of how to search for grey literature​

• How to evaluate grey literature

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

One session of one hour

A number of times per year

• Medicine: Writing a Systematic Review Protocol (for University and NHS)
• Medicine: Systematic Reviews (for University and NHS)