Grey Literature for Health Sciences

Conference Proceedings: Conferences are a major source of cutting edge research, particularly in science and engineering.  At conferences, researchers present papers on the research they are doing and obtain feedback from the audience.  The papers presented in the conference are then usually published in a volume called a conference proceeding.  It may be months before such information is published as a journal article, or it may never be published.

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• They may be published/catalogued as a book, journal, or series


• Individual papers from a conference may be published as a book, journal, or series rather than all of the presented items


• Societies and Associations may only publish abstracts, or extended abstracts, from a conference


• Authors may "publish" their conference papers on their personal or institutional website

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Databases that include conference proceedings usually have some way of limiting the results to this type of publication. Databases that have subject headings will often have a subject heading for this specific type of publication. Below are some examples: