If your research interconnects with other subjects, try the subject guides for those subjects too
Can be useful as both primary and secondary sources of information. As well as providing commentary on events, newspaper articles can provide insight on how the public viewed an event or incident at the time.
Gives access to many contemporary news sources from around the world.
Print and electronic reports and other documents and produced by organisations such as governments, academics, business and industry.
This is a good source of grey literature in health, including guidelines from around the world. We don't have access to the Pro version but you can still search quite effectively using the free version.
The King's Fund Library have recently completed work to make more grey literature available via their database. This is likely to have more UK-focused literature as they are cataloguing grey literature previously held in National Grey Literature collection.
A web search is useful for finding documents that are freely available via the websites of relevant organisations and governments across the world.
Using Google's advanced search, you can filter by geographic region, site or domain (e.g. .gov.uk for UK government websites), and file type (e.g. you could limit to pdf as a way of narrowing to reports and documents published online).
The WHO website has links to country information and health data. Whilst this will be generally quite broad the country pages on the WHO data site: https://data.who.int/ have links to official websites which could be useful.
There is also WHO IRIS which is a publications repository: https://iris.who.int/
This has global coverage and seems to cover a wide range of publication types. You have to register an account but this is free and gives limited access.
Useful sources of specialised information not published elsewhere. Most universities have a Repository, University of Sunderland's repository is called SURE. Find theses from other universities via EThOS (UK) or PQDT Open (Worldwide).
Search research produced by University of Sunderland staff.
Service from the British Library, EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service with approximately 400,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 160,000 of these also provide access to the full text.
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge where the author has opted to publish as open access. This includes international Universities.
Current Awareness Services where you can discover the newest papers as soon as they have been published online.
Sign Up for free to search in your chosen journals and, optionally, receive email alerts when new issues are published in the journals you follow.