Web resources and Google
We have listed a few grey literature sources in your field to get you started including health websites, professional associations and more generally, tips to searching Google and Google Scholar. However, there could be many more useful and high-quality resources available.
Professional Associations and Guidelines
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council Inc.
ANMAC facilitates a national approach to Nursing and Midwifery helping protect the health and safety of the community by promoting high quality standards for nursing and midwifery education.
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation
The web site of the nurses union in Australia.
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
The primary aims of the NSQHS Standards are to protect the public from harm and to improve the quality of health service provision.
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA)
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia is responsible for the registration of nurses and midwives in Australia and has developed standards for applicants.
NMBA Codes, Guidelines and Statements
Full text of many codes, professional practice guidelines and competency standards available from this website.
Australian College of Nursing (ACN)
The web site of the Royal College of Nursing, the professional organization representing nurses from all practice areas in Australia.
Useful health websites
Websites useful to obtain health reports and policies via health organisations and government departments:
Victorian Government Health Information
- Health Status of Victorians
- Victoria Department of Health - Strategies, plans and charters
- VicHealth
Federal Government Health Information
Health Management & Policy
Health Promotion
Public Health
Indigenous Health
ABC Health Coverage
- Health Updates is a weekly online alert about recent ABC health coverage.
- Health Report presented on Radio National each Monday at 5:30 pm
Useful websites for Nursing information
ACI (Agency for Clinical Innovation) NSW
Great source of information on hospitals, research, publications, discussion groups, news and events, government information.
ECG Library
An Australian resource developed by health professionals providing a broad range of ECG examples.
Medical Director
A valuable Australian site with many links to quality resources.
National Rural Health Alliance
Including fact sheets, policy documents, conferences and seminars, this site supports equal health outcomes and quality health services for all Australians.
Nursing and midwifery
A web site maintained by the Victorian government.
Google and Google Scholar
Google and Google Scholar are particularly useful when searching for grey literature, e.g. organisational reports, working papers, government reports and information, statistics, conference papers, patents, blogs, webpages etc.
Google Scholar is a search engine for a variety of scholarly and grey literature - however Google Scholar has a broad scope, does not distinguish between peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources and the algorithm can bias the results that are shown to you. Take a look at our evaluating information webpage to help you check the quality of resources.
Asking the right questions in the right way
You can get the most out of search engines like Google and Google Scholar by asking your questions in the right way. You will usually find help pages, FAQs, or guides to searching on individual search engine homepages. But here are some common tips to keep in mind:
For further information on searching Google, please check out our Searching the grey literature guide.
Tip
If you are going to use Google Scholar in your searching, please follow our instructions to Connect your Google Scholar with Deakin Library, this will allow the Find it @ Deakin button to appear in your search results so you can go directly to the article full-text (PDF).