Bodleian Libraries users now have access to four collections on the Policy Commons platform, from Coherent Digital:
- Global Think Tanks is a collection of objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs. It provides in-depth search and access to over 11 million reports, policy briefs and data sources from over 28,000 organisations. You can search by keyword, browse by theme or topic, or find table-based datasets.
- Public Health and Social Care provides access to hard to find grey literature from the frontlines of healthcare and social care providers including hospital systems, foundations, patient groups, practitioner communities, governments, think tanks and other organisations. The database of over 1.8 million publications includes research, pilot projects, real-world evaluations, newsletters and collaborative projects.
- World Cities and Local Governments contains over 4.3 million publications from 3,500 organisations, cities and local urban agencies. These address urgent societal issues such as homelessness, immigration, urbanization, climate change, income inequality, and transport with content including assessments, statistics, surveys and case studies.
- World Governments contains research documents from national, regional and local governments from around the world, allowing comparison of policies across regions with wide topical coverage in reports, budgets, debates, proceedings and other official publications. This resource offers comprehensive coverage for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and US Federal agencies, with additional select coverage for more than 180 other countries.
All these collections can be searched simultaneously from the Policy Commons home page.