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Grey Literature for Health Sciences

Documenting your Grey Literature Search Strategy

If you plan to publish your work in a particular journal, you might check how other reviews published in that journal have described their grey literature search strategies. You can also find some guidance in the resources linked below. 

Note that the number of hits Google reports is usually an overestimate. Page 1 of your results may say there are 150,000 results, when in fact there are only 400.