As we launch, Policy Commons lets you serve your students and faculty—in the classroom or remotely—with 2.3 million documents. Reports, blogposts, working papers, articles, and more—are harvested daily and weekly from thousands of IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, and research organizations from around the world. Some of the content is exclusive to Policy Commons, including the complete historical output of organizations dating as far back as 1920. 

We’ve made sure we’ve covered the topics that matter right now—COVID-19, education trends, sustainable development, climate change, Black Lives Matter, healthcare delivery, nuclear policy, gender equality, racial fairness, and Brexit - in all, we cover 7,300 topics. But there’s more. To my surprise, I discovered Policy Commons has 10,000 documents relating to architecture. So, this is a resource that will be used right across your institution.

As I’m sure you know, link rot is rife in this field. So, where we have permission, we’re keeping copies safe on Policy Commons, making LibGuides, syllabi, and course packs durable. We’ve even tracked down reports from nearly 200 inactive organizations and these are now available from Policy Commons.

Policy Commons is the first community platform in this discipline. We invite individual members to upload their content for instantaneous publication, share ideas, and connect with one another globally. Besides exploring the largest collection of policy content ever gathering into one place, individual members can explore an Organization Directory of 16,600 policy organizations, each of which is welcome to upload their content too.