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July 18, 2008

Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indianapolis Trumpets Database of Policy Research

PolicyArchive, an online archive of public-policy research, was unveiled today by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis University Library and the Center for Governmental Studies, a nonprofit group that encourages civic engagement.

PolicyArchive now holds more than 12,000 policy documents from about 220 think tanks and research groups. The archive’s developers say it will house up to 20,000 documents by the end of 2008. They want it to become the largest online repository of public-policy research in the world.

The archive documents are freely available, and publishers are encouraged to upload their documents to the site. —Andrea L. Foster

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