Coherent Digital

What we do We find critical content that’s uncatalogued, undiscoverable, uncitable, prone to link rot, and likely to disappear. We call it wild content. It’s in websites, reports, social media, blogs, virtual reality, and primary sources—but if you can’t find it, you can’t use it. We discover, curate, index, enrich, preserve, and distribute wild content, making it easy for libraries to deploy it across their organizations. Important works that have been absent from the scholarly record can now be accessible, safe, and permanently available. How we do it (with community) We’ve created a series of websites, called Commons, that bring together licensed materials, wild content, and tools for researchers, librarians, and students. Commons members share, suggest, upload, and contribute. The sites are created, improved, and grown collaboratively—with communities of librarians, expert researchers, and publishers. What we’ve achieved so far Students and researchers from hundreds of institutions across six continents use our Commons. We’ve helped drive new research, built out the scholarly record for fugitive items, and rescued the output of hundreds of discontinued organizations. We’ve built partnerships with publishers whose content we’ve licensed, and we’ve helped thousands of organizations by increasing traffic to their websites.

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