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CINAHL covers literature related to nursing and allied health.
Consumer health information including reference books, reports and pamphlets, drug information and more.
Now called APA PsycINFO. Abstract and index of Psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, sociology, business, education, etc.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's to present.
Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source provides indexing for over 200 sports medicine and rehabilitation journals.
Rehabilitation Reference Center (RRC) is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. RRC provides therapists and students with available evidence for their information needs in the areas of: Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and more.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
The definition commonly used to describe grey literature comes from the Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature in Washington, DC (October, 1999):
"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."
Learn more from the New York Academy of Medicine, Grey Literature Report: http://www.greylit.org/about
Types of Grey Literature
Census, economic and other data sources | Conference proceedings and abstracts | Databases of ongoing research; registered clinical trials |
Electronic networks (Listserv archives, etc.) | Informal communications (phone conversations, email, meetings, etc.) | Newsletters, trade journals |
Preprints of e-journal articles | White papers | Research reports (completed and uncompleted) |
Technical reports | Theses and Dissertations | Web log (blog); government websites & documents |
Where to find it?
Professional Organization Websites (Does your working group have a professional organization? A union? Do they have anything to say about work-related injuries? A policy paper, newsletter article, fact sheet, training manual, etc. can be considered grey literature.)
Government Websites (Almost everything from the government is grey literature! Think about resources from the CDC/NIOSH, DOL, laws, data from the Census, etc.)