Need to locate grey literature resources? Policy Commons, produced by Coherent Digital, is your new go-to database for research from the world’s leading public policy experts, think tanks, government agencies, IGOs (Inter-Governmental Organisations), and NGOs (non-Governmental Organisations). 

The Policy Commons collection contain an extensive range of full text governmental and think tank publications, including policy reports, administrative documents, project documents, working and discussion papers, press releases, briefs and brochures. It also includes archived and orphaned content from defunct and inactive policy organisations. 

The Policy Commons interface features full text searching as well as tags and filters for: 

  • document type 
  • organisation name and type 
  • publication language 
  • country of publication 
  • publication date.  

There are two key Policy Commons collections available via the Library: 

Global Think Tanks (Policy Commons) – research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs. 

World Governments – Australia & New Zealand (Policy Commons) – selected coverage of public policy documents from national, state, and regional governments and agencies of Australia and New Zealand.   

Want more? Explore all of our Library databases via the A-Z list. If you’d like any further information on Policy Commons or any of our databases, please don’t hesitate to contact the Library. 

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