Policy Commons
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-14
Access to search interface:
paywalled
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
Coherent Digital, LLC
Location of system headquarters:
Alexandria, US
Year of launch:
2018
Type:
Bibliographic database
Help URL:
N/A
Twitter:
Description of search system (by system owner)
Millions of reports from think tanks, agencies, and cities—with tools to supercharge your research. We select high quality, data-rich reports from more than 24,000 policy organizations, including small think tanks and municipalities missed by others. Search millions of papers in seconds. Use facets to quickly zero in on what you want. We include more than 2,000 e-books licensed from publishers such as African Books Collective, Environmental Law Institute, and Council of Europe, as well as more than 200,000 municipal reports.
Notes
Requires an account to search. Free accounts allow a max. of 25 searches/month.
Search Smart only assesses the database's covered "Publications".
Total coverage:
3.76M
Year-over-year growth (2021-2022):
-12.64%
Subject coverage:
Social Sciences (34.77 %); Economics, Econometrics and Finance (25.22 %); Business, Management and Accounting (10.36 %)
Retrospective coverage:
1926–2023
Record types:
25
Open Access records:
N/A
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
extensive
Backward citation searching:
limited
Forward citation searching:
limited
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
3
Query
Latency with short query:
1.2 seconds
Latency with long query:
17.5 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
5
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
100 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
100 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
4
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
25
Results filters:
14
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
N/A
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
N/A
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
10000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
50
Export formats:
2
API:
upon request
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
N/A
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
N/A
