Nursing 309: Introduction to Grey Literature

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Nursing 309 Introduction to Grey Literature

• Heather Ganshorn, MLIS
• Liaison Library for Nursing

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In this session, we will cover

• What grey literature is
• How to locate different types of grey literature
  using the U of C Librarys online databases

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What Is Grey Literature?

• Printed works such as reports, internal
  documents, PhD dissertations, master's theses,
  and conference proceedings, not usually available
  through regular market channels because they were
  never commercially published, listed, or priced
• from the Online Dictionary of Library and
  Information Science

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Locating Dissertations and Theses

• Use ProQuest Digital Dissertations to locate PhD
  dissertations and masters theses from North
  American universities
• Use the Index to Theses to locate theses and
  dissertations from the UK and Ireland

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ProQuest Sample Search
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Locating Conference Papers and Proceedings

• What are conference papers and proceedings?
• Researchers present their research papers at
  conferences. The papers will be published after
  the conference, either in a scholarly journal or
  in a collection of proceedings.
•  Proceedings are a collection of papers from a
  particular conference, all gathered in one
  volume. Sometimes people call them transactions
  instead of proceedings.

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Sample Search PapersFirst
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Sample Search ProceedingsFirst
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Remember

• Use PapersFirst to search for an individual
  conference paper
• Use ProceedingsFirst to search for the collected
  proceedings of a conference

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Locating Statistical Information

• Almey, Marcia. Finding Data on Women A Guide to
  Major Sources at Statistics Canada. Ottawa
  Status of Women Canada, 1998.
• MADGIC Desk 2nd Floor, Library Tower

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Locating Government Documents

• Canadian Research Index for federal and
  provincial government documents
• GPO Monthly Catalog for U.S. government documents
• NTIS Reports for technical and scientific reports
  commissioned by U.S. Government

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Sample Search Canadian Research Index
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Today we have covered

• Finding theses and dissertations
• Finding conference papers and proceedings
• Finding statistical information
• Finding government information