Global Think Tanks is a collection of objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs, and NGOs.

It provides in-depth search and access to some 5 million reports from over 25,000 organizations.

For Research

Speed your research

One-stop access to more than 30 million pages of curated, high quality policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organizations.

Discover unique content

Exclusive access to hundreds of books and other licensed content—including materials previously only available in print—from leading publishers

Find new sources

Our exclusive organization directory has over 30,000 entries to help you find new sources for your research, and to see who’s working on what.

Access lost content

We’ve saved copies of more than 100,000 publications from more than 650 defunct and inactive think tanks. With your help, we plan to save hundreds more.

Stay current

Our alert service and frequent updates help you stay current with the latest content—months, even years, before it appears in journals and books.

Promote your work

Reach thousands of policy professionals and academics by uploading your research. Add links to drive traffic back to your own (or your organization’s) website.


Content that matters

We cover many disciplines—agriculture, energy, pharmaceuticals, diversity, crime, librarianship, and much more. Content is thoroughly vetted by the organizations that produce it, and it’s curated by our editors. It’s highly current, with 200,000+ items from 2023, 12,000+ on Hamas, and 13,000+ on Putin and Ukraine.

Our 30 million pages of books, articles, working papers, reports, policy briefs, data sets, tables, charts, media, case studies, and statistical publications provide current, vetted, hard statistical and factual content.


For teaching and learning

 

Engage students with what matters!

Teach issues that matter as they unfold. Engage them with authoritative, real world, real-time content they care about.

Integrate with your LMS

Easy integration with Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas and other Learning Management Systems.

Better syllabi

Build syllabi with links that won't break.  Discover new syllabi and share your own. 

Promote student work

Share student theses, reports and projects with our community.


For libraries

Support multiple departments

Provide detailed, current, engaging, factual content for disciplines like history, area studies, economics, sociology, and political science.

Access exclusive content

More than 500,000 pages of books and reports licensed from leading publishers.  Many are exclusive to Policy Commons, some are previously available only in print.

Help save disappearing materials

We keep copies of orphan content, and we make sure that links stay current. Use our permanent identifiers in your catalog to prevent link rot.

Integrate easily

We provide a full suite of library tools, including MARC records, COUNTER-compliant usage statistics, library branding, and patron access without registration.

Build or promote your repository

Contribute content, and within minutes it’s available across the Commons. Contribute links back to your repository, and we’ll drive traffic there.

Own in perpetuity

Receive digital copies of 500,000 pages of licensed material, 300,000 orphan items, and links to 24 million pages harvested from the web.


For research institutes and think tanks

Promote, track, and understand your impact

Reach new audiences
Send us a link or upload a file, and within minutes it’s available to thousands of policy makers, researchers, academics, students, and journalists. Subject tag it, and we’ll alert all those interested right away.

Understand your impact
See what research is being done, what’s popular and what’s missing. See where you’re being cited, and where you’re making a difference.

Partner with us!
Let us showcase your publications within Policy Commons. We can make sure they’re easy to find, cite and preserved for future generations.


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