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Policy Commons provides unique, in-depth, current research in almost all fields. We index, license, and preserve grey literature from 30,000 think tanks, nonprofits, hospitals, and government departments. We include exclusive content that we’ve licensed and digitized, and we've found and preserved materials that have disappeared from the internet.

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  • German Federal Ministry of Defence

  • Scottish Government

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Discover millions of hard-to-find reports in one place

Policy Commons is the world's most comprehensive and current database for social science grey literature. Our full-text, Boolean, proximity, and Advanced Search features and filters help users quickly find the content they need from thousands of sources that are otherwise scattered across the internet.

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Cite grey literature with confidence

No more broken links. Every item in Policy Commons has a downloadable citation that’s compatible with reference management systems. Better still, each citation has a COI (Content Object Identifier) which won’t break—just like a DOI.

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We've rescued and preserved millions of publications from defunct organizations, reports removed from websites, and exclusive digitized backfiles.

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Diversify your research

You’ll find documents from virtually all countries, including content from the Global South, and from small think tanks whose output is missed or deprecated by search engines.

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We add thousands of new reports every week. Use our Follow tool to get alerts about organizations, people, topics—even your own searches—and be the first to know about new reports relevant to your research.

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We extract tables so that you can find them without opening a single PDF, download the tables in CSV or image format, and cite the table, not just the report.

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Tell us about organizations important to your research. We’ll check the sources for quality, add them to the directory, and index their content. Institutional access includes this on-demand service.

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Discover your real-world impact

Our tools display where your organization is mentioned in grey literature. Include these case studies in your impact reports with our permanent links and identifiers.

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Publish to our community

We invite our users to upload their own content if they own the copyright, or upload links to other digital resources if they do not. We’ll enrich and index your uploaded item, give it a permanent URL, and publish it. Through our partnership with Google Scholar, your content will be discoverable to millions of researchers within days.

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Every item you upload to Policy Commons is given a unique, persistent, identifier that’s compatible with all reference and citation management tools. The Content Object identifier (COI) works just like a DOI. Better still, it costs you nothing.

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