Social Work *: Finding Grey Literature in Social Work

Find AHRQ research results: research reports, statistical briefs, horizon scans, EHC contracts and projects.

Under the Advanced Search Tools column, select "Gaining an International Perspective" to learn how to search Google indexes for individual countries, to search content crawled from local materials.

Search for research on intergovernmental organization topics.

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Think Tank Search is a custom Google search of more than 600 think tank websites. For the purposes of this search, think tanks are defined as institutions affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and businesses that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity.

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OpenTrials aims to locate, match, and share all publicly accessible data and documents, on all trials conducted, on all medicines and other treatments, globally.

OSF Preprints is a discovery platform hosted by the Open Science Framework. OSF Preprints uses open source infrastructure and a public API. When grey literature is desired for a systematic review, OSF Preprints could be searched to discover preprints and other document types. OSF Preprints is able to cross-search OSF partner repositories, as well as several other repositories, including arXiv, bioRxiv, Cogprints, PeerJ, Preprints.org, and others. As of March 2018, the partner repositories hosted by OSF Preprints include AgriXiv, arabixiv, BITSS, Earth ArXiv, engrXiv, FocUS Archive, Frenxiv, INA-Rxiv, LawArXiv, LIS Scholarship Archive, MarXiv, MindRxiv, NutriXiv, Paleorxiv, PsyArXiv, SocArxiv, SportRxiv, and Thesis Commons. OSF Preprints demands no fees for deposits or access. Access:

This page provides specialized searches of published research - PubMed - and research still in progress - HSRProj, and ClinicalTrials.gov - to help inform investigations of comparative effectiveness. See the description below the search boxes for more information about this project.