Searching for Grey Literature
Location
Online event
This session provides attendees with the skills and knowledge to conduct a literature search using up to three sources of grey literature.
About this event
PLEASE NOTE: This session is for PHE employees.
If you work in a Local Authority Public Health Team please visit https://phelibrary.koha-ptfs.co.uk/laph/ for information on services available for you.
Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Explain what constitutes grey literature.
- Prepare an answerable search question.
- Formulate a search strategy in the context of grey literature.
- Apply a search strategy to sources of grey literature (e.g. OpenGrey, King’s Fund, TRIP Database).
- Use appropriate syntax (e.g. truncation, wildcards, Boolean operators).
- Have increased confidence in using grey literature sources to identify evidence to address a search question.
Content
- What is grey literature?
- Planning and defining your search question
- Creating your search strategy
- Interactive: Create your own search strategy
- Identifying available sources
- Inputting search terms and applying limits and filters
- Assessing and amending your results
- Saving your search history and search results
- Obtaining full-text
- Interactive: Apply this knowledge to a three sources of grey literature
- Evaluating quality