Over 4 million essential research documents from more than 150 national, provincial, and state governments around the world, enriched and integrated on a single platform. 

Researchers, analysts, students, and others are able to access billions of dollars of research and view its practical applications of that research. Compare and understand the positions of influential and decision-making organizations across the globe. We focus on entities and items that document and demonstrate the impact of research, including:

  • Policy documents

  • Agency reports

  • Budgets

  • Commissions and inquiries

  • Consultation papers

  • Departmental reports

  • General research

  • Government agencies and bodies

  • Government departments

  • Government research centers

  • Governmental auditors

  • National banks

  • Parliamentary debates

  • Parliamentary proceedings

  • Parliaments (national, state, provincial, indigenous)

  • Scientific reports

Benefits

  • One place to search government documents across the world.  

  • Advanced search tools let you conduct analyses and compare documents from different regions and easily isolate particular documents by mentions. 

  • Preservation—Documents often disappear from websites. World Governments preserves them.

  • Comprehensiveness—Many government websites don’t cover smaller agencies or do so only sparingly. World Governments covers it all.

  • Easily citable—All the documents contain permanent identifiers, allowing you to cite them easily.

  • Tables are extracted, so you can search and download them individually in CVS format.

  • MARC records are provided at the organization level as integrating resources, while title-level metadata will be provided to discovery services.

Regional coverage

For most regions, coverage begins in 2015, earlier for others.  Major sites are crawled weekly, others monthly.  The following are covered comprehensively, with individual editors identifying major entities and key documents for inclusion.

World Governments includes selective coverage for another 450 national, state, and regional governments and agencies from more than 150 countries.  These materials are selected by our editors or requested by Policy Commons members.

 

Comprehensive coverage for:

  • Australia

  • Canada

  • Ireland

  • New Zealand

  • Oceania

  • United Kingdom

  • United States - Federal

Topical coverage

  • Animal control and welfare

  • Architecture

  • Climate and environment

  • Diversity, equity, inclusion

  • Education and youth

  • Emergency, fire and safety

  • Energy and utilities

  • Immigration

  • Leisure and tourism

  • Libraries

  • Local history

  • Mental health

  • Police, crime and incarceration

  • Public health and epidemiology

  • Small business and economics

  • Sports, arts and culture

  • Statistics and data

  • Status of women

  • Terrorism

  • Transportation

  • Urban planning

  • Water resources and sewerage

  • Zoos, parks, forestry, and urban agriculture

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