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May 5, 2026

Coherent Digital Launches Global Technical Reports: Preserving the Record of Government-Funded Science

Alexandria, VA — Coherent Digital launches Global Technical Reports on Applied Science Commons, preserving the U.S. NTIS-NTRL record, backfilling a decade of dropped coverage, and extending scope to government-funded research worldwide.

April 27, 2026

Coherent Digital signs Jisc agreement: Policy Commons, Applied Science, Impact

Following a positive consultation, Coherent’s tens of millions of indexed grey outputs are now available to UK HE institutions on special terms via Jisc — covering Policy Commons, Applied Science Commons, and Coherent Impact.

March 30, 2026

Coherent Digital Acquires OpinionArchives, Expanding Access to Influential Public Discourse

Alexandria, Virginia — Coherent Digital acquires OpinionArchives, a major collection of opinion journalism and commentary used in hundreds of libraries worldwide, and will relaunch it on its Commons platform.

March 29, 2026

Coherent Digital Announces New Service to Measure Real-World Impact

Alexandria, Virginia — Coherent Digital announces Coherent Impact, a new service that measures real-world influence of university research beyond traditional citation metrics by analyzing 40,000+ policy and practice organizations.

March 22, 2026

Lyrasis and Coherent Digital Formalize Partnership Agreement for Member Access

Alexandria, Virginia — Coherent Digital and Lyrasis reach an agreement giving Lyrasis members special rates on Coherent’s online publications, with year-end discounts available through December 2026.

March 10, 2026

Senate House Library, University of London, Acquires Access to Full Catalogue of Coherent Digital Online Resources

London — Senate House Library, University of London, has acquired Coherent’s full catalogue of primary sources and grey literature covering global history and cultures, following its Library Transformation Project consultation.

February 18, 2026

Coherent Digital Announces A New Collection in its Social Justice and Culture Series: Poverty and Inequality

Alexandria, VA — Coherent Digital launches Poverty and Inequality Social Justice and Culture, a digital primary-source collection that preserves the everyday record of organizations fighting poverty and strengthening communities.

September 28, 2025

Coherent Launches Major Archive of Rare African Magazines Largely Unknown Among Scholars

Coherent Digital launches Pan-African Magazines, digitizing 1,390 issues (70,000+ pages) of rare regional Drum editions and women’s magazines from 1954–1991, in partnership with Drum Archive.

September 17, 2025

New Applied Psychology database to provide real-world information across multiple disciplines

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.

September 1, 2025

Coherent Digital Launches Major New Video and VR Resource for Counseling, Social Work, and Related Fields

Coherent Digital releases Mental Health in VR and Video — an upgraded and expanded Mindscape Commons with 250+ short videos and VR experiences for counseling, psychology, social work, and nursing training.

August 4, 2025

Coherent Digital Launches Major New Archive of Twentieth-Century Social History

Alexandria, VA — Coherent Digital announces a September launch of North American Urban Documents 1950–1999 — 5+ million pages of previously undigitized primary sources from 900+ organizations.

July 24, 2025

Coherent Digital and Trojman Corporation Partner to Launch Canadian History and Culture, 1825–1899

Coherent Digital and Trojman Corporation announce a new partnership to publish Canadian History and Culture, 1825–1899 — a landmark digital archive of rare 19th-century Canadian periodicals, digitized in Canada.

June 30, 2025

CRL’s Partnership with Coherent Digital Drives Widespread Adoption of Key Digital Resources

CRL and Coherent Digital announce the success of a collaborative effort that has resulted in 40+ institutions acquiring Coherent collections — spanning social justice, policy, Global South, and applied science.

May 4, 2025

Coherent Digital launches new collections: Indigenous Peoples; Refugees, Borders, and Migration; and LGBTQ+

Coherent Digital launches three new Social Justice and Culture collections — LGBTQ+, Indigenous Peoples, and Refugees, Borders, and Migration — with 500,000+ items from 3,000+ organizations across 100 countries.

March 5, 2025

Coherent Digital Launches Landmark Effort to Rescue, Preserve, and Open Access to Endangered Policy Content

Coherent Digital announces the Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection — a new Rescue-to-Open initiative to preserve at-risk government reports, with 100,000+ items including 10,200 from USAID.

March 3, 2025

New Living Archives Preserve Disappearing Indigenous and Refugee Voices

Alexandria, VA — Coherent Digital launches two new living archives — Indigenous Peoples and Refugees, Migration, and Borders — preserving voices often erased from mainstream history and scholarship.