The Grey Literature Report

Finding public health information not published in books or journal articles is difficult. Where would you look to find a pamphlet produced by a non-profit health organization that is not listed on their website, or a government agency report that you can't find on that department's home page or via gpo.gov? What if a Google search does not reveal the answer?

The Grey Literature Report is a searchable index of the public health grey literature collected by the New York Academy of Medicine. The report covers publications in the fields of health and science policy, public health, health of minorities and special populations (i.e. children, women, uninsured, elderly) that are not indexed in other health sciences databases or MEDLINE.

The publications do not come from major commercial publishers but from government agencies, non-profit non-governmental organizations, universities, independent research centers, and international organizations. Document types include but are not limited to case studies, conference proceedings, discussion papers, fact sheets, government documents, issue briefs, research reports, statistical reports, and white papers. Numeric reports are not included, although questionnaires, health statistics and data are when they form an integral part of a report. Currently no audiovisual material, videos or webcasts are included in the report.