Biomedical Engineering

Government Data & Research

Biomedical Information from Federal Agencies

Information and research conducted by the federal government and international non-governmental organizations can be vital to your work, and is also usually free to read.

Use a government portal to find information on a topic by every relevant agency, or go directly to the federal departments that focus on biomedical research.

Government Portals

Search across government agencies.

SCIENCE RESEARCH

DATA

Agencies of the Department of Health & Human Services

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (NLM)

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)

Gray Literature

The general term for information sources disseminated outside of the scholarly publishing process by non-publishers.

Sources considered gray — data collected by a federal agency, or a technical report by a professional association, for example — are certainly edited in some way but do not go through peer review, so while they are published documents, they are not considered scholarly articles.

Types of gray literature

• Hard to find studies, reports, or dissertations
• Governmental or private sector research
• Clinical trials - ongoing or unpublished
• Conference proceedings can sometimes be considered gray literature, depending on their editorial process

Further Reading

Gray Literature: Sources

National

GENERAL

BIOMEDICAL

International