September 17, 2025
Coherent Digital launches Applied Psychology, a new resource with 300,000+ curated items from 500+ organizations worldwide — going beyond peer-reviewed journals to show how psychology is used in the real world.
Contact: Elizabeth Robey
Coherent Digital today launched Applied Psychology, a new resource that brings real-world psychological knowledge into the hands of researchers, educators, clinicians, and students—from around the globe and across disciplines. Unlike traditional databases that focus on peer-reviewed journals and books, Applied Psychology is more current, larger, broader, and built to address today’s needs. With over 300,000 curated items from more than 500 organizations worldwide, and continually growing, it provides concrete and actionable research on how psychology actually works in the real world—interdisciplinary, practice-based, and drawn from diverse communities and professions.
“This collection doesn't just support academic theory—it reveals how psychology is being used to solve problems in healthcare, education, law, business, and public policy.” — Elizabeth Robey, publisher
More comprehensive: Coverage includes grey literature, personal narratives, podcasts, preprints, toolkits, and more—materials left out of traditional academic databases.
Current and evolving: Content is updated continually from sources actively shaping contemporary practice and policy.
Interdisciplinary: It’s designed not only for psychology departments, but also to support programs in neuroscience, law, education, business, and engineering.
Global in scope: Documents are predominantly in English, sourced from dozens of countries, with strong representation from the Global South and historically marginalized communities.
Multiformat: Included are PDF reports, blogs, podcasts, video interviews, and case studies—all selected for relevance to teaching, research, and applied work.
Librarians will appreciate that every item comes with a persistent identifier for reliable citation, as well as links to the original source. Preservation is built in; with appropriate rights, if the original site disappears, we provide access through our secure backups.
The database is currently available in beta and will officially launch on September 30, 2025.
Coherent Digital finds important content that is hard to access and makes it available to researchers, educators, and students worldwide. Its mission is to preserve at-risk materials and make them discoverable, usable, and sustainable.
