Discover 8.3 Million pages of grey literature central to policy research.
Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks is a one-stop online discovery service for objective, quality and current research publications from a number of the world’s leading think tanks, policy experts, NGOs and more. With over 27,500+ organisations contributing to Coheren’t Digitital’s Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks, offered by Sabinet, it is one of largest grey literature repositories around.
Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks makes content, policy researchers can’t find in the scholarly records, findable.
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Coverage of major and minor organisations:
With a magnifying glass that spans international organisations, Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks highlights and comprehensively indexes content from authoritative sources, with full-text coverage for 7,500 organisations, including smaller organisations deprecated by search engines.
An eye on Africa:
With over 930 organisations, over 36 think tanks, and more than 110,050 reports, Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks has a sizeable and steadily growing content base of Africa-centric materials.
Making elusive entities visible:
Specialised coverage of over 5,300 hard-to-find NGOs, NPOs and research centres.
Preserving what’s important:
Every record housed in the Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks database has its own persistent identifier, enabling you to cite materials with confidence. In addition, a preservation bank of 2.7 million saved copies preserves these materials for the future.
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BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks provides limited open resources following free registration. But, with a Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks Membership, you’ll gain access to unique search and content integration tools offering:
- Discover unique content – Exclusive access to hundreds of books and other licensed content, including materials previously only available in print, from leading publishers.
- Access to just under 600,000 preserved documents from just under 650 organisations that have disappeared.
- The inclusion of member think tank and research institute content to showcase their output on a premier grey literature platform.
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Feature-filled, current and diverse, Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks adds research value through tools that:
Search and interrogate content
Advanced search tools surface content in a manner that allows for analysing trends and identifying new research and policy partners.
Find and cite tables
Thumbnails of tables and graphs can be viewed within reports, with the option to browse, cite or download them directly.
Create and share reading lists
Your selected audience has access through a personalised, high-functioning landing page to customised lists of topics, reports, organisations or searches.
Fully deploy policy research in your organisation
All materials have a permanent ID and organisation-level MARC records. Content is indexed by major search engines and linked with library discovery services.
Personalise alerts
With customisable alerts, users can stay up to date with what really matters to them, receiving emails highlighting new materials as they are added to the database.
Collect community contributions
Gain access to a growing collection of community uploads enriched with metadata. Members can also submit their own policy materials within minutes.