Locating grey literature on communication disorders.
This article provides an overview of selected Web-based resources containing grey literature in the area of communication disorders. It is geared to practitioners, researchers, students, and consumers seeking reliable, freely available scientific information. Grey (or gray) literature has been defined as "that which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business, and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers."1 This paper reviews various general reference sources potentially containing grey literature on communication disorders. This review includes identification of the methods specialists in this field use to obtain this valuable, yet often overlooked, literature. Access points and search tools for identifying grey literature on communication disorders are recommended. Commercial databases containing grey literature are not included. Conclusions presented in this article are considered complementary to traditionally published information resources on communication disorders, such as scholarly journals, online databases, etc.
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, Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY, 11367, USA. ishpilko@qc1.qc.edu
D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D003147:Communication Disorders; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D006077:Government Agencies; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards; D012014:Reference Books, Medical; D014481:United States