Foundation Center is rolling out a new set of tools designed to help users of its IssueLab service share reports, case studies, evaluations, and other knowledge created by foundations, nonprofits, and university-based research centers.

New features of the enhanced platform include an improved interface for uploading research and sharing items via a website, blog, or on social media; filtered search, the ability to curate user libraries, and "what to read next" suggestions for related research; the ability to issue Digital Object Identifiers, or DOIs, for qualifying resources, ensuring long-term discoverability and accessibility across the Internet and on archival sites such as WorldCat; and metadata functionality for keyword, publication date, geographic focus, and language to facilitate searching and browsing across thirty-eight issue areas.

As part of the makeover, IssueLab also has expanded its custom services for institutional clients to include synthesis reports, special collections, and Knowledge Centers such as freshwater.issuelab.org, which was created in partnership with the Pacific Institute and Rockefeller Foundation to highlight incentive-based approaches to freshwater management.

"These new tools will make the accumulated knowledge of the social sector easier to find, share, and build on," said Gabriela Fitz, director of knowledge management initiatives at Foundation Center. "IssueLab is devoted to organizing and leveraging the social sector’s common knowledge for the common good."