Policy Commons

Policy Commons makes local, state, regional, and national government data available alongside research produced by IGOs, NGOs, and think tanks. It's the world’s most comprehensive database for policy grey literature.

With full-text searching, wildcard truncation, Boolean and proximity operators, and dozens of search filters, you’ll quickly find exactly what you’re looking for.

We've rescued and recovered millions of publications from defunct websites, reports removed from the web, and exclusive digitized backfiles.

You’ll find documents from virtually all countries, including content from the Global South, and from small think tanks whose output is missed or deprecated by search engines.

We add thousands of new reports every week. Follow organizations, people, topics—even your own searches—and be the first to know about new reports relevant to your research. 

We extract tables so that you can find them without opening a single PDF, download the tables in CSV or image format, and cite the table, not just the report.

Tell us about organizations important to your research. We’ll check the sources for quality, add them to the directory, and index their content. Institutional access includes this on-demand service.

Our tools display where your organization is mentioned in grey literature. Include these case studies in your impact reports with our permanent links and identifiers.

We invite our users to upload their own content if they own the copyright, or upload links to other digital resources if they do not. We’ll enrich and index your uploaded item, give it a permanent URL, and publish it. Through our partnership with Google Scholar, your content will be discoverable to millions of researchers within days.