How can I become part of Policy Commons?
Individual
$0 / mo
Discover and access over a million policy documents from thousands of IGOs, NGOs, research centers and think tanks
Upload your own content to reach a global audience of your peers
Stay up to date – follow key organizations and topics, sign up for alerts
Teams
Individual benefits
- Premium content
- Higher upload capacity
- Custom content research and harvesting
- Detailed impact reports on your Team’s content
Subscription price based on Team size
Institution
Individual benefits
- Premium content
- Highest upload capacity
- Custom content research and harvesting
- Detailed impact reports on your Team’s content
- Services for libraries and librarians
Subscription price based on Institution size
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| Searches Search across the world’s largest collection of policy content from leading IGOs, NGOs, Think Tanks and Research Centers. |
x25/month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Access to content on partner websites When you find content on Policy Commons, we’ll link you to the original website so you can see and download it in its original context. |
Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Premium service: Access to saved items If a link to content on a partner website breaks, we’ll give you access to a copy that we saved and archived earlier.1 |
No access | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Premium service: Access to inactive Think Tank content Exclusive access to 1000s of recovered reports from 200+ Think Tanks that are either inactive or have closed. |
No access | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Premium content Access over 500,000 pages of unique content licensed from a dozen publishers. |
No access | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Upload content Make your content discoverable within the world’s largest collection of policy content from the world’s leading IGOs, NGOs, Think Tanks and Research Centers |
up to 50MB (~10-20 docs) | up to 512MB (~100-200 docs) | up to 50GB |
| Usage data on the content you upload Track the usage of the content you upload. |
Basic* | Detailed* | Detailed* |
| You've been read! Receive alerts by email when one of the items you uploaded has been accessed. |
No | Yes* | Yes* |
| Customize your Organization’s Directory page Take control of the way your Institution, Organization or Research Center is described in our Organization Directory. |
Yes* | Yes* | Yes* |
| Harvesting service Nominate websites and we'll bring relevant content to you2. |
No | 3 Standard sites | 3 Standard sites |
| Alerts Personalized alerts of new content by email. |
Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Follow To stay up-to-date, follow Organizations, Topics, and Search |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Citation tool Use our citation tool to export ready-made citations. |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Share tool Share what you find in Policy Commons with your networks. |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Library service: Usage data Basic usage data during 2020. COUNTER Reports will be available from 2021. |
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| Librarian service: MARC records Essential Dublin-core metadata for Premium Content |
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| Librarian service: Institution-wide access authentication Onsite by IP range or offsite, remote access, by federated authentication and other supported secure proxy systems |
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| Library service: Institution branding Your library/institution name appears on Policy Commons |
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| Customer support by email | No | Yes | Yes |
| Customer support by phone | No | Yes | Yes |
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