Health Sciences Gray Literature

• A.T. Literature - ABLEDATA. Can search citations & abstracts (some links to full-text) of books, journal articles, papers, reports on assistive technology.



• Academic Search Complete - Designed for academic institutions. Search articles in over 5,300 publications (over 4,460 peer-reviewed) back to 1865, citations & abstracts for 9,300 journals & 10,900 publications (monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.), cited references for 1,000 journals. Covers all areas of academic study (area studies, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, etc.). Updated daily. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Acubriefs.com - Can search 12,000 citations of English language books, journal articles, conference proceedings, computer programs, theses, dissertations, etc..



• AGRIS - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Can search citations of journal articles, conference papers, etc., on agricultural sciences & technology. Covers nutrition.



• Alt HealthWatch - Search articles in over 180 international (often peer-reviewed) journals, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters back to 1990. Covers complementary, holistic, integrated approaches to health care & wellness. Includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research, book excerpts. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, Berlin), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• ASCO Abstracts (American Society of Clinical Oncology) - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of annual meeting & symposia papers back to 1995.



• Chronic Disease Prevention (CDP) Databases - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Can search citations & abstracts of journal articles, monographs, book chapters, reports, curricular materials, proceedings, etc., through 2005. Covers health, cancer, prenatal smoking, epilepsy.



• CINAHL Plus with Full Text - Search articles in over 560 nursing & allied health journals back to 1937. Has National League for Nursing & American Nurses' Association publications on nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, 17 allied health disciplines. Includes books, dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, clinical trials. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• CIRRIE Database - CIRRIE (Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange). Can search over 24,000 citations of journal articles & conference papers on international rehabilitation research back to 1990. For U.S. research, use REHABDATA Database, The.



• ClinicalTrials.gov - U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Can search, browse citations & abstracts of clinical trials in locations worldwide.



• Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials - Search citations & abstracts of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration & others as part of an international effort to hand search journals worldwide & create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. Includes reports in conference proceedings & other sources not in MEDLINE or other databases. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) - Search journal articles & protocols on the effects of healthcare. Reviews are highly structured & based on quality criteria to minimize bias. Data is evidence-based medicine often combined statistically to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies each too small to produce reliable results individually. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• Cochrane Methodology Register - Search citations & abstracts of publications that report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) - National Institutes of Health (NIH). Can search Federally-funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, etc..



• Current Controlled Trials - Can search over 100,000 citations & abstracts of clinical trials worldwide. Has links in 18 categories, FAQs, email updates.



• Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) - Can search over 127,000 citations of USAID technical & program documents, 22,000 downloadable (pdf), on democracy, economics, health, etc..



• Dissertations & Theses @ Touro - Search over 440 School of Health Sciences & 150 Graduate School of Jewish Studies masters theses. All theses also listed in UMI's printed Masters Abstracts International, included in the ProQuest Digital Dissertations Database, preserved on microfilm in the UMI vault & at the Midtown Library. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual theses. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ. TO DOWNLOAD THESES, FOLLOW THE ONLINE INSTRUCTIONS & DOWNLOAD THE ACROBAT READER IF NECESSARY.



• DoD Biomedical Research Database - Can search Department of Defense program descriptions on infectious diseases, biological hazards, toxicology, clinical medicine & surgery, etc., back to 1998.



• eLCOSH (Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Can search, browse articles, factsheets, alerts, other publications.



• Environmental Grey Literature Search - Can search government documents, technical reports, unpublished manuscripts.



• E-print Network - An OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information) gateway. Can search, browse over 13,750 sites with eprint servers & over 1 million articles on physics, chemistry, biology, biotechnology, geosciences, medicine, etc.. Has links to over 2,200 scientific societies.



• EPrints Repository - Can search, browse over 1,500 journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., by Australian National University faculty.



• eScholarship Repository - California Digital Library (CDL). Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 13,900 articles in journals & peer-reviewed series, working papers, etc.. Covers business, education, the social sciences.



• EurekAlert - Can search, browse science news releases & archives in 14 categories. Has links (100 science, technology, medical peer-reviewed journals; etc.).



• Federal R&D Project Summaries - OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information). Can search citations & abstracts of Federally-funded projects of the Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation.



• getCITED - Can search over 30,600 citations from 3.3 million books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc., from over 10,000 academic institutions. Requires free registration.



• Google Scholar - A ***** Google search engine. Can search scholarly literature (peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, etc.) in all broad areas of research from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, etc.. Includes citations of older works & seminal papers not available online.



• GrayLIT Network - An OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information) portal. Can search citations of technical reports generated via U.S. Federally funded research & development projects.



• Guidelines Finder - Can search, download (pdf) over 900 U.K. national clinical guidelines. Updated weekly.



• HazLit Database - Can search citations (some abstracts) of books, journal articles, reports on how society prepares for, reacts to, etc., natural hazards & catastrophic events.



• Health Technology Assessments - Search nearly 7,000 abstracts (including more than 3,000 descriptive abstracts) of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions). RESTRICTED to TC (NY), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• IPCS INTOX Databank - Can search, browse Poisons Information Monographs (PIMs) & IPCS Treatment Guides.



• Kinesiology Publications - Can search citations of graduate research studies (master's & doctoral dissertations) on human movement.



• NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) - U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL). Can search citations of articles in over 850 journals, book chapters, technical reports, reprints.



• National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) - Can search, browse, compare 1,300 evidence-based U.S. linical practice guideline summaries & 500 archived documents. Has National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) Annotated Bibliographies.



• National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) Annotated Bibliographies - National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC). Can search over 3,200 citations to peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, etc., back to 1997 on guidelines



• National Research Register (NRR) - Can search ongoing & recently completed projects funded by or of interest to the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS).



• NCJRS Abstracts Database - National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). Can search over 185,000 citations & abstracts of research reports, books, journal articles, etc., back to the 1970s. For 8,000 full-text items, use the NCJRS Advanced Search.



• NCJRS Advanced Search - National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). Can search over 7,000 technical reports, books, journal articles, etc., back to the 1970s. For 170,000 summaries, use the NCJRS Abstracts Database.



• NEPIS (National Environmental Publications Information System) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Can search 10,000 EPA documents.



• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of research worldwide.



• NHS Economic Evaluation Database - Search abstracts of quality-assessed economic evaluations of drugs, treatments and procedures. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• NIDRR Program Directory - NARIC (National Rehabilitation Information Center). Can search, download (ascii) 400 research projects, funded literature.



• NIEHS Bibliography - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Can search, browse citations of journal articles, book chapters, other papers back to 1990.



• NIH Consensus Development Program - National Institutes of Health (NIH). Can browse statements by independent, non-Federal panels of experts based on medical knowledge available at the time the statement was written.



• NIOSHTIC-2 - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), The. Can search 32,000 citations & abstracts (some links to full-text) of journal articles, grant reports, etc., back to 1971.



• OAIster - Can search & link to over 9.7 million ebooks, ejournal articles, audio files, images, movies in digital collections of over 700 academic institutions.



• Organized Crime in North America and the World: A Bibliography - Can browse citations (some links to full-text) of journal articles, conference papers, books, etc..



• Original Sources - From Encyclopaedia Britannica. Search & browse original source documents in history, politics & government, philosophy, religion, science, the social sciences & original work of literary figures writing in English & other languages. Has a quotation finder, concordance. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• OT Search - Search 34,000 citations of books, proceedings, theses & dissertations, unpublished papers, journal articles on rehabilitation, education, psychiatry, psychology, health care delivery & administration topics & assessment tools. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), THmed, TUN.



• OT Seeker - Can search citations & abstracts of systematic reviews & randomised controlled trials. Has a tutorial on evidence-based practice, links.



• Oxford Internet Pain Site, The - Bandolier. Has evidence-based systematic reviews on pain & analgesia.



• PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) - Can search citations & abstracts of randomised controlled trials & systematic reviews.



• Pharma Nord Research Manual - Can search over 5,000 citations & abstracts of journal articles, conference papers on preventive medicine & nutrition back to 1985.



• POPLINE Population and Environment Bibilographic Resource - PopPlanet. Can search citations & abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, etc., on population, family planning, related health issues.



• Population Index - on the Web - Can search, browse over 46,000 citations & abstracts of books, journal articles, working papers published from 1986 to 2000.



• Prevention Online, PREVLINE - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), The. Has Quick Facts with links to research reports on the sociological, psychological, medical aspects of substance abuse.



• Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines - Can search, browse evidence-based medicine approaches in 22 categories.



• Priory Lodge Education Ltd. - Can search peer-reviewed articles on psychiatry, medicine (family, chest), pharmacy, etc..



• Profiles in Science - U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Can browse full-text archival collections of 20th century biomedical research & public health leaders.



• ProQuest Digital Dissertations (PDQQ) - Can search citations & abstracts of U.S. dissertations for the last two years & download (pdf) the 1st 24 pages.



• PsycEXTRA - Search books & chapters, magazines, newspapers, gray literature (dissertations, technical & annual reports, consumer brochures, etc.) back to 1872. Contains 45,000 records with 30,000 added annually. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• PsycINFO - Search nearly 2.3 million citations & summaries of articles (2,100 journals, 97% peer-reviewed), book chapters, books, dissertations back to the 1800s. Covers the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, etc..RESTRICT ED to TC (NY, South, Berlin), Law, THmed, TUI, TUN.



• Public Documents Masterfile - Search & browse citations of federal, state, local, international public documents back over 200 years, Includes links to World Bank publications back to 1946. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• QUAKELINE - Can search over 44,900 citations & abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, etc., back to 1987 on earthquakes, natural hazard mitigation, etc..



• Rand's Publications - Can search, browse titles before 1998 in 16 categories (child policy, civil justice, education, energy & environment, health & healthcare, international affairs, national security, population & aging, public safetly, science & technology, substance abuse, terrorism & homeland security, etc.).



• Reports of the Surgeon General, The - Can search, browse, download (pdf) reports back to 1964.



• Scientific Publications by NCEH Authors - National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH). Can search citations & abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, proceedings, etc., back to 1990.



• Scirus - Search engine. Can search over 135 million science-related Web pages, including citations & abstracts of peer-reviewed journals, conferences, preprints, etc.. Covers economics, business, management; medicine; neuroscience; psychology; social & behaviorial sciences; etc..



• SUMSearch - Metasearch engine. Searches multiple databases (Merck Manual, PubMed, National Guideline Clearinghouse, DARE, etc.) for evidence-based medicine. Use any PMIDs (PubMed IDs) you find to search eJournals for articles.



• Theses Canada Portal - Can search over 220,000 citations, with abstracts back to 1995, download (pdf) theses submitted between 1998 & 2002.



• Theses Link Collection - Has links to collections in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, German, Sweden, the U.S., etc..



• Toxicology Literature Online (TOXLINE) - TOXNET. Can search citations of journal articles, monographs, reports, theses, papers, reports, etc., on the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, toxicological effects of drugs & other chemicals.



• TOXNET - Specialized Information Services (SIS). Can search one or all databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, etc.. Includes Toxicology Literature Online (TOXLINE).



• University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER) - Can search, browse journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., back to 1945.



• West Nile Virus Bibliography, 1965-2004 - U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL). Can search citations & abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, etc..