What is Grey Literature?
1. Find articles:
2. Find books and journals:
PLAN your strategy:
Read background information to find search terms:
Identify search terms:
Best Practices:
Selecting your articles:
Ask your Librarians for help at the BEGINNING of the research process!
1. Looking for ARTICLE titles that exactly match your topic.
2. Search terms are too narrow or too broad.
3. Missing citation pearls.
4. Forgetting to save searches that produce great results in Your Folder.
5. Keep your topic general until you have performed the research.
MeSH searching=
Keyword searching (the default in any database)=
To find MeSH terms:
Here is a link to a tutorial on searching PubMed using the MeSH database
Another tutorial on combining search terms using MeSH
And a tutorial on applying subheadings and other features of the MeSH database
Journals recognized as scholarly by their academic or medical peers.
Identify peer-reviewed journals by searching for the journal title in Ulrich's Periodical Directory.
Every database has an option to setup an Account or Folder.
Create an account or register
Examples:
EBSCOhost databases:
PubMed: