Professional Documents
Culture Documents
NISO Open Research
NISO Open Research
NISO Open Research
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But then something comes along
that’s different . . .
https://policycommons.net 3
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
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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
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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 . . .
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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
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
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. . . 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
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Search: precise, easy and quick
• Boolean AND, OR, NOT
• Formal tagging using our own thesaurus + folksonomy
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And you can follow . . .
Search results
Organizations
Topics
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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
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Now, imagine if you could . . .
. . . see the charts
and tables that are
hidden inside this
report
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We’re working on a tool . . .
. . . that will do
just that
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Giving users the power to find
what’s locked inside . . .
g so on
Comin
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So . . .
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. . . 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)
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. . . and we support preservation
• A study of syllabi showed more than
25% of links to policy content are
broken!
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So . . .
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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
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Coming in 2021 . . .
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 and reference-
builder
. . . and more
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We welcome your thoughts . . .
Tell us what
else you
need.
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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
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Wheat. Not chaff.
Insights. Not noise.
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