UC Library Guides: Grey Literature in Health: Search Engines

Search Engines

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) This link opens in a new window
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic open access web resources. BASE provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources. You can access full text for about 60% of the indexed documents.

Google Advanced Search
The advanced search interface in Google allows more targeted entry of search terms and provides access to a range of search limiters including a domain limiter.
Example: Use .gov.au for information from Australian government websites or .edu.au for information from Australian university repositories.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Web search engine for multidisciplinary scholarly literature.
To see UC subscriptions in your search results (off campus):
Go to Settings
Library Links - type: UC Library
Select 'Full-text at UC Library'
MedNar This link opens in a new window
Mednar is a free, medically-focused deep web search engine. As an alternative to Google, Mednar accelerates your research with a search of authoritative public and deep web resources. Searches occur in real time and can be limited to full text.
TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) Pro Database This link opens in a new window
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Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
Register for a free password and choose "University of Canberra (Recommended)" to view links to full text articles in UC subscriptions.

OpenMD.com
OpenMD is a US resource that searches billions of documents from government agencies, global health organizations, medical journals, and reference sites

Google Search Tips (slides)

Search Strings for Search Engines

Some of the search techniques used to search databases can be used in search engines. To be thorough use more than one search engine, e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo etc.

Useful domains are .gov, .gov.au, .gov.act.au etc. and .org

You can also limit your search to Word or PDF documents

India "mobile telemedicine" (site:.org OR site:.gov)

India "mobile telemedicine" (filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc)