Overton for think tanks, NGOs and IGOs
See where your organisation is influencing policy worldwide
Overton collects millions of policy documents and links them to the research, people and other policy documents that they quote or reference. You can quickly see where your work may be influencing or changing practice in the real world.
Report on your policy impact to stakeholders
Get alerted to the latest mentions of your organisation in policy
Monitor emerging policy debates that you could help to shape
Make sure your work is citing a wide range of reputable sources
Discover policy documents from around the world and manage them in one place
Why Overton?
We’re the world’s largest searchable policy document database, typically returning 3x more data than similar products.
We track everything from government white papers to think tank policy reports to parliamentary and congressional transcripts, and we track policy sources across the world.
We automatically find the links to other policy documents, authors and scholarly research and show you where in the document your organisation is cited.
For think tanks, NGOs and IGOs looking to understand their reach with key policymakers and shape the conversation, Overton gives you unparalleled insight into your role in the policymaking landscape.
What do you get?
- Access to over 5M full text policy documents and guidelines from 29,000 organisations in 185 countries
- Our powerful web interface which allows you to search full text documents by keyword, organisation and title to get an overview of your organisation’s policy activity, and shows you the citation journey to other documents
- Friendly, responsive support from a team who are passionate about evidence-informed policy and the researchers driving it
- Summary reports, Powerpoint slides and email alerts to stay on top of and quickly report on new policy that references your work
- CSV exports, RSS feeds and API access to quickly bring the data into your own systems
- The ability to request new sources of data to be tracked: we commit to quickly add up to 7 sources within 7 days for you each year
- Team or site licence subscriptions available
Our clients include
Plus several leading think tanks, charities and intergovernmental organisations across Asia Pacific, North America and Europe
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