Juriscraper is a data gathering library written in Python that collects legal opinions, PACER content, and oral arguments from the American court system.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Investigative journalism tech

The Big Cases bot follows the biggest cases in the country, but many people want updates for specific topics they follow.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Investigative journalism tech

Eyecite is a high performance, robust, open source tool for extracting legal citations from text.

• Legal tech
• Investigative journalism tech
• Research tools

X-Ray is a fast and robust tool to identify bad redactions in PDF files.

• Legal tech
• Investigative journalism tech
• Research tools

Doctor is a microservice for converting and extracting documents and audio files.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Access to laws

Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

• commercial

• Academia
• Research tools

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.

• Google
• commercial

• Civic data
• Research tools

Public Policy Lab has launched a new qualitative research platform designed to inform policy.

• seniors

• Narrative tech
• Research tools
• Story tech

The EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses

• reports

• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools
• Report cards and audits

a Discord bot for ethical, responsive digital ethnography

• Discord

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Bots
• Research tools

sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.

• corruption

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.

• Civic data
• Research tools
• Open knowledge

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Research tools

Fatima's mission is for every person in the world to have their voice heard, while ensuring a safe, secure, and ethical research experience.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Surveys & polling
• Research tools

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

• guides

• Civic data
• Research tools
• Citizen Engagement

Collaborate is an open-source tool that newsrooms can use to enable multiple reporters to share a dataset.

• Media
• Journalism
• Research tools

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Research tools
• Open civic data

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Research tools

A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Research tools

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Investigative journalism tech

Explore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.

• Google

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an author’s page.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data