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Open Research
We usually think of information

services in categories . . .
Books . . .
Journals . . .
Aggregators . . .
Repositories & Archives . . .
Harvesters . . .
Discovery & Alerting services . . .
Social platforms . . .
Data . . .
Preprints . . .
Reports . . .
Closed v Open . . .
Researchers . . .
Practitioners . . .
Students . . .
Learning objects . . .
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But then something comes along
that’s different . . .
Introducing . . .
It’s a . . .
Discovery service . . .
Content platform . . .
Preservation & Archive
service . . .
Repository . . .
Content enrichment
service* . . .
Harvesting service . . .
Social network* . . .
Learning support tool . .
Alerting service . . .
Audience finder . . .
Impact measurer* . . .
Directory . . .
Libguide & reference
builder*. . .
*coming 2021
In short, it’s a platform for the . . .
. . . Policy
Community*.
It’s also the first time
policy content is
presented as a body of
literature
*which is larger than

you might think
Let’s start . . .
Discover great content . . .
• Rich: >2.1M reports, books, articles, working papers, policy
briefs, data sets, tables, charts, media, case studies, blog
posts, videos, and more . . .
• Quality-assured: by the organizations that produce the

content and curated by our editors
• Current & topical: >90K items from 2020; >20K items on

COVID-19; 166 items on Black Lives Matter . . .
• Broad research and teaching relevance across the entire

policy spectrum: agriculture, energy, pharma, diversity, crime,
librarianship, education, sustainable development, climate,
healthcare, nuclear policy, gender equality, food fairness,
architecture, cities, law, regulation …
. . . from publishers &
organizations . . . • Weekly and daily coverage of 60
major IGOs and NGOs
• Selective coverage from 1,000+
major think tanks, NGOs, IGOs
• Partial coverage of another 16,000+
organizations
• Curated by our editors
• Includes thousands of smaller
organizations deprecated by search
engines
. . . and 500,000 pages of premium
content from partner organizations
Premium content: licensed from partners . .
Environmental Law Institute
• The premier US think tank for intersections of environmental policy and law
• 100 books, 300 video seminars, broad subject coverage
Canadian Electronic Library Public Policy Collection

• 60,000 policy documents from and about Canada
• Additional content from government sources, think tanks, and research agencies
African Books Collective

• 400+ books from African think tanks, research institutes, and publishers
• Gender, education, urban development, sustainable development, policy, political science
Policy Archive
• More than 30,000 items from 1980-present from 1,000 organizations from 1980’s
• Was in danger of disappearing—now preserved, exclusively in Policy Commons
Council of Europe
• 1,500+ books and reports from the premier human rights organization
. . . and preserved from inactive organizations
• Important but short-lived organizations often leave no
archive
Institute for Rockridge
Institute
Advanced Strategic • Cited in journals, books, syllabi, directories, but now just
and Political Studies
broken links
• Users look for the content, but it’s gone
Economic
Institute of
Cambodia
• We’ve reconstructed 300,000 lost pages from 340+

inactive organizations so far
• We expect this collection to grow quickly
Search: precise, easy and quick
• Boolean AND, OR, NOT
• Formal tagging using our own thesaurus + folksonomy
Multiple fields and facets
And you can follow . . .
Search results
Organizations
Topics
Content plan - next 4 months
Users asked us to help locate rare and hard-to-find content from smaller
organizations that never make it to the top of public search engine results
➢ So, by June, we’ll add ~100,000 items from 1,000+ small and medium-
Rare: Leopard Ctenopoma
sized policy organizations
Our members place high value the documents from inactive NGOs
➢ So, by May, we’re adding another 10,000 reports from discontinued
organizations
Now re-discovered: Coelacanth
We’ve been asked to focus on regional content, and we’re starting with Africa
where many NGOs lack the resources to reach an international audience
➢ By June, 10,000+ unique and hard-to-find reports drawn from 300
African NGOs will be added
African: Rift Lake Cichlid
Now, imagine if you could . . .
. . . see the charts
and tables that are
hidden inside this
report
And find these

charts and tables
appear in your
search results.
We’re working on a tool . . .
. . . that will do
just that
Giving users the power to find
what’s locked inside . . .
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Comin
So . . .
Discover great content But, what about you?

from great publishers -
large and small . . . What content do you have?
&
Premium content
licensed from partners
and rescued from inactive
organizations . . .
with
a great search engine (with,
soon, table-finding) . . .
Add your content to Policy Commons
Make your content discoverable
among all this great content.
Yet still keep it on your website or
repository!
You can add content on Policy Commons - even if you

don’t own copyright - and track its usage . . . here’s how:
• We capture a cover image
You It’s linked, • Editors vet flagged
• Add metadata indexed, and content
add a
link • Add LTI and enrich in other ways searchable in • Violating contributors
• Save a copy (with your permission) minutes and content removed
. . . and we can harvest the
content you need
• Top sites are harvested weekly/monthly
• What if your users need special coverage of
a site like ACODE?
• We’ll crawl sites for you . . .
• . . . then organize and enrich the content . . .
• . . . and alert you and your team when there’s
something new
• 3 crawled sites included in membership
(additional sites for per-site fee)
. . . and we support preservation
• A study of syllabi showed more than
25% of links to policy content are
broken!
• So, as we harvest content, we

make preservation copies (with
permission)
• If the original link breaks, users get
redirected to a preserved copy.
So . . .
Discover great Add your content to make it

content from great easy to find . . .
publishers . . .
&
&
Premium content . . . we can harvest the
licensed from partners content you need . . .
and rescued from defunct &
organizations . . .
we’ll preserve it.
with
a great search engine . . .
One more thing . . .
. . . a unique Organization directory
• Newly commissioned, exclusive
21,000-entry organization directory
• NGOs, IGOs, think tanks, research
institutes
• Identify key players by subject,
budget, and other metrics
One of 40 organizations in our directory dealing

with issues around diversity
Available now . . .
service . . .
Repository . . .
Content enrichment
service . . .
Social network . . .
Alerting service . . . .
Impact measurer . . .
Directory . . .
Project management tool
. . . and more
Coming in 2021 . . .
service . . .
Repository . . .
Content enrichment
service . . .
Social network . . .
Alerting service . . . .
Impact measurer . . .
Directory . . .
Libguide and reference-
builder
. . . and more
We welcome your thoughts . . .
Tell us what
else you
need.
Thanks to our advisors
• Keith Webster, Dean of Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University
• Joseph Yue, Government Librarian, UCLA
• David Ettinger, International Affairs and Political Science Librarian, GWU
• Amanda Lawrence, Policy Researcher and Librarian, Swinburne University of
Technology
• Cathy Zeljak, Director, Global Resources Center
• Alison Shaw, Chief Executive, Bristol University Press and Policy Press
• Heino Von Meyer, Former Head, OECD Berlin Centre
Wheat. Not chaff.
Insights. Not noise.
Click here for Introductory Video
To learn more and set up your FREE TRIAL

– write to:
toby.green@coherentdigital.net
www.coherentdigital.net

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Open Research

We usually think of information

*which is larger than

• Quality-assured: by the organizations that produce the

• Current & topical: >90K items from 2020; >20K items on

• Broad research and teaching relevance across the entire

Canadian Electronic Library Public Policy Collection

African Books Collective

• We’ve reconstructed 300,000 lost pages from 340+

Multiple fields and facets

And find these

Discover great content But, what about you?

You can add content on Policy Commons - even if you

• So, as we harvest content, we

Discover great Add your content to make it

One of 40 organizations in our directory dealing

Click here for Introductory Video

To learn more and set up your FREE TRIAL

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