A platform for objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, nonpartisan think tanks, IGOs and NGOs, with access to more than 30 million pages of curated policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organizations.
Chatham House Online Archive provides a searchable research environment that enables users to explore close to ninety years of expert analysis and commentary on international policy. Subject indexing allows users to quickly retrieve and review briefing papers, special reports, pamphlets, conference papers, monographs, and other material relevant to their own research or study. Users will also have access to the full text of two of Chatham Houses flagship periodicals, International Affairs and The World Today.
Theory and research in international affairs including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Digital National Security Archive unlocks a vast trove of important declassified U.S. government documents, providing vital primary source material to advance research in twentieth and twenty-first century history, politics, and international relations.
Websites for Policy Literature
NGO Search--a Google custom search covering non-governmental organization (NGO) websites. It is a project of the International Documents Taskforce (IDTF) and the Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) of the American Library Association (ALA). Spreadsheet of NGOs included in the project.
Enables you to search for and access UN documents and reports, speeches, votes, and its other public-domain publications.
About Policy Literature, or "Grey Literature"
"Policy literature," oftentimes referred to as "grey literature," is information produced
Outside of academic and commercial publishing and news-distribution channels.
"On the ground" and in an up-to-date or timely manner, that is, without the delays and restrictions of academic publishing and commercial publishing
Usually without a formal peer-review process, as you have with scholarly literature, meaing the quality of the policy literature, or grey literature, can vary significantly
