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Grey Literature

Grey literature databases identify resources that are key to research and scholarship. Many are open resources that go through a quality control process before they are published.

Definitions are scholarly dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks that help define terms and provide additional context. There are many healthcare, nursing and applied handbooks, texts, and reference resources of specific interest found using Omni. A select list of general resources includes,

  Concise Medical Dictionary (2020) Dictionary of Nursing (2021) Dictionary of Public Health (2018)

  Mosby's Pocket Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professionals (2010)

  Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (2018)

  Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (2012)

  Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine and Health (2012)

Occupational Health and Safety information is essential to dealing with injuries, accidents, government and regulatory information.

Theses and Dissertations are important unpublished resources granted and retained by universities as capstone projects, these, and dissertations.

Open Education Resources (OERs) are digital ebooks and learning objects that can be used as open textbooks on a wide variety of general and disciplinary subjects. 

Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis research involves specialty databases and resources.