Our newest collections
We deliver vital, real-world research—current, authoritative, often missing from traditional resources—to over 1,500 universities, libraries, governments, think tanks, and corporations.
We find primary-source material—including at-risk archival and born-digital content that would otherwise be lost to link rot, institutional collapse, time, or neglect—and preserve it before it vanishes.
We show the impact of real-world knowledge.
At a Glance
1,500+
customers around the world
40,000+
content-creating organizations indexed
Organizations use Coherent Digital to measure their real-world impact...
by tracking where their work is mentioned, using our analytical tools.
Scholars, instructors, and students use Coherent Digital...
to demonstrate the enduring, real-world impact of open knowledge preservation on research, teaching, and public understanding.
Policy Commons
With tens of millions of documents from tens of thousands of organizations around the world, Policy Commons provides the missing half of the research record—the policy reports, working papers, data, and primary sources often overlooked by even the most well-respected and heavily used academic research databases. One of the largest policy resources available, and growing every day, Policy Commons complements other platforms by capturing the current, real-world knowledge that they miss—and preserving it for lasting impact.
Learn more about Policy Commons and these collections:
Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection (content rescued from government organizations experiencing the removal of public information and data—ensuring long-term, free access)
and future modules
Applied Science Commons
The latest reports, case studies, and technical documents—items that rarely surface in academic journals—are accessible, searchable, and downloadable in Applied Science Commons modules.
The database integrates hidden websites, blogs, and other nontraditional sources into the academic workflow. Researchers have quick access to current, real-world evidence—and the content is preserved, for reliable citing and research integration.
Scholarship is made stronger. Institutions and funders can clearly demonstrate the tangible impact of their research.
Learn more about Applied Science Commons and these collections:
Social Justice and Culture
From grassroots movements to contemporary community events, up-to-the-minute blogs, contemporary magazines, reports, podcasts, activist zines, and social media—the series captures content created by communities themselves.
These are living collections that will continue to grow. They capture cultural and activist expressions distributed through new media—high-value, nontraditional content that isn’t published in books or journals. The series finds the material, stabilizes it, preserves it, and makes it accessible, along with licensed, unique content unavailable elsewhere.
Social Justice and Culture collections enrich teaching, advance equity, and let institutions demonstrate the cultural and societal impact of their scholarship.
Learn more about these collections in the Social Justice and Culture Series:
The Global South
Access cross-searchable, mobile, local-language collections of archives, publications, and primary sources.
We find materials that are often scattered, fragile, or hidden from most of the world. We make them discoverable, citable, and preserved—so that voices from the Global South are a permanent part of the scholarly record.
Often undigitized until now, we produce the collections with local partners and often are able to make access free to users in their home countries.
Learn more about Africa Commons and these collections:
Learn more about South Asia Commons and these collections:
The Iran Society Archive (an open collection)
and future modules
Learn more about Latin America Commons and the first collection:
and future modules
History
More than twenty landmark collections cross-searchable on the History Commons platform bring essential, previously inaccessible sources into the academic record.
There are comprehensive archives documenting the Cold War and Nazi eras in Europe; rekeyed and fully searchable eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century archives; rare African American newspapers; primary sources in women’s history; and more.
The curated collections preserve vulnerable materials, expand access to underrepresented voices, and support rigorous, inclusive historical research and teaching.
Learn more about History Commons and these North American collections:
and future modules
Learn more about History Commons and these European collections:
Canadian History and Culture
Canada Commons is the premier digital library for Canadian research, scholarship, and policy. It brings together thousands of e-books, primary sources, government documents, and think-tank content from leading Canadian publishers and institutions—resources that are often difficult to find elsewhere.
Covering public policy, Indigenous studies, history, arts and culture, health, and the social sciences, Canada Commons makes it easy for students, faculty, and researchers to discover authoritative Canadian content in a unified platform.
Learn more about Canada Commons and these collections:
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