Answered By: Shazia Arif Last Updated: 09 Jan, 2026 Views: 6
Check out the NHS England webpages for a comprehensive guide to grey literature:
Grey literature | Knowledge and Library Services
Resources
Books
- Maybin, J (2016) Producing Health Policy: Knowledge and Knowing in Government Policy Work in Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, London
Case studies
Catalogues
Courses
Databases
Repositories
Theses
Websites
- CASH
- Gov.UK
- The Grey Literature Report
- GreyNet International
- The Health Foundation
- House of Commons Library - Health
- Mednar
- National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
- NHS England - Transformation Directorate
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National Grey Literature
The National Grey Literature website (also known as 'All Cats are Grey') previously managed through an NHS library service has now been discontinued.
All the content from this extensive resource has been transferred to the Kings Fund Library and the team are working to review the data and integrate it within their collection. This project should be complete by early Summer 2024 and more updates will be shared over the coming months.
If you are searching for any content previously on the site, contact the Kings Fund library on library@kingsfund.org.uk.
- Nuffield Trust
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Patient Experience Library - The Patient Experience Library is the UK's biggest single repository of evidence on patient experience and engagement.
- UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Grey Literature: index and alternative sources and resources
This list has been compiled to help librarians and researchers, particularly in Public Health, to find resources that fall into this category and flag up alternative sources for queries not easily resolved by the clinical / medical database model.
References
- Henwood, F (2021) Grey Literature Definition for Normal People
- Paez, A (2017) Grey literature: An important resource in systematic reviews in Journal of evidence-based medicine
- Schöpfel, J (2010) Towards a Prague Definition of Grey Literature Paper' presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Grey Literature: Transparency in Grey Literature Grey Tech Approaches to High Tech Issues, Prague
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