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Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection

An initiative to rescue content from government organizations experiencing the removal of public information and data—ensuring long-term, free access for the public

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Introducing the Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection

The Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection is an initiative to rescue and preserve materials from government agencies and government-funded organizations facing the removal of public information and data—reports, blog posts, videos, and podcasts. Coherent will archive, assign permanent unique identifiers, and index the materials for discovery through Google Scholar and academic databases. Each item will be enriched with detailed metadata—and made openly available to the public.

The Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection and the Rescue-to-Open program launched in March, 2025, with  more than 360,000 items from 58 organizations. The database is available now to all Policy Commons subscribers, included at no charge in your list of modules. Continually updated, the project will grow. If you know of endangered websites or other content in urgent need of preservation, please let us know, using the form below.

The Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection will soon be open to all through simple registration (to ensure security of the content)—watch for our announcement. (See "Will registration be required..." in the FAQ below.)

FAQ

Coherent Digital's mission is to preserve endangered information. For us, this is business as usualsafeguarding public records regardless of changes in government. We believe that access to information is essential for transparency, research, and the public good.

This video explores how grey literature shapes the world.

Bibliography

Our live, evolving bibliography of Rescue-to-Open sources.

Can I help?

Yes!

Please use the embedded form.

Or reach out to our Publisher (below).

Thank you!

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Get in touch

Our Publisher, Toby Green, would love to hear from you.