You can find old speeches, comedy routines, TV ads, government documents, academic treatises, entire books.
Moreover, different forms of published and unpublished documents: academic, policy, reports, and manuals were exploited.
In 1999, for instance, the hospital hired Dr. Warren C. Lemons as a resident in its family medicine program despite documented academic problems.
To locate peer-reviewed documents, Academic Search Complete and PubMed databases were explored using specific search terms.
Two days earlier, a colleague of mine was using the computer in my office when they noticed three documents: two academic papers on radical Islam, as well as a publicly available booklet, downloaded from the US justice department website, and obtainable from the university library, entitled the al-Qaida training manual.
It also opens the doors to much more thorough searching, especially for content that is often found in printed documents (like academic papers).
The study draws on several sources of data including a review of official policy documents and academic papers and in-depth interviews with key policy actors at national level and at a sample of localities.
We collected data through: a review of "hard" documents (recent academic literature, policy documents, recent country studies, laws and regulations relating to drug access issues in Ghana and internationally), interviews with key stakeholders and informants to identify major gaps in drug access in Ghana, and inputs from the Access to Medicines Ghana Initiative Advisory Group.
We should not imagine that anyone can easily understand any dataset, any more than we would think that anyone can easily read any policy document or academic article.
Such skills are difficult to acquire, and to document, during academic training.
