Temporary Access to Coherent Digital Databases: Reports, Grey Literature, Primary Sources, and Web-Based Content
With the support of the Bulgarian Information Consortium, we are providing all students and faculty of the Medical University – Sofia withtemporary free access to the databases of Coherent Digital until 31 May 2026.
Coherent Digital is a company specializing in the collection, organization, digitization, and preservation of technical reports, grey literature, primary sources, and web-based content. Through its platform, the U.S.-based company makes these materials easily discoverable, citable, and permanently accessible to researchers, scholars, and students worldwide.
Coherent Digital develops and maintains numerous specialized collections covering a wide range of disciplines and topics. Specifically for the Medical University – Sofia, the following databases are available:
Applied Science Commons
Contains evidence-based publications on topics such as health and social care, innovation and applied scientific solutions, engineering and technology, environment and climate, energy, and sustainable development. The database includes research and analytical reports, expert analyses, working papers, strategies and policy frameworks, impact assessments, and long-term development guidelines.
The number of indexed documents exceeds 7 million from more than 13,300 organizations, and the collection continues to grow daily.
Within Applied Science Commons, you will find the following specialized collections:
Public Health and Social Care
Computer Science, Data, and AI
Applied Environmental Science
Applied Psychology
Mental Health in VR and Video
Applied Nursing and Allied Health
Global Technical Reports
• Link: https://appliedsciencecommons.net
• Available until: 31 May 2026
• How to access: Directly through the Internet network of the Medical University – Sofia. For remote access outside the university network, please send us a completed request form with your details.
Policy Commons Complete
Every year, research institutions, NGOs, intergovernmental and governmental organizations, think tanks, research agencies, governments, municipalities, and policy organizations worldwide publish research worth tens of billions of dollars in the form of reports, analyses, studies, white papers, national or regional development strategies, datasets, blogs, podcasts, and other materials—many of them peer-reviewed by experts. These materials often lack metadata and identification numbers, which until recently made them difficult to cite and insufficiently used.
Policy Commons indexes more than 35 million full-text documents from over 48,000 organizations, collecting and permanently preserving these important resources. More than 1,700 new documents are added every hour.
• Link:https://policycommons.net
• Available until: 31 May 2026
• How to access: Directly through the internet network of the Medical University – Sofia. For remote access outside the university network, please send us a completed request form with your details.