The new three-year open publishing agreement provides seven NERL member institutions with read access to the entire corpus of Springer journals and permits eligible authors to publish open access, with fees covered, in hybrid journals across the Springer portfolio

The CRL Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointments to the CRL President Search Committee.   The CRL Executive Committee received an outstanding expression of interest from member directors in response to their open solicitation for search committee members. The Executive Committee carefully reviewed and appointed search committee members that represent many of the various organizational types and perspectives among CRL membership. Constituting the 2024 CRL President Search Committee are: 

The CRL Licensing and Acquisitions Team seeks suggestions and input from members of the community on the CRL Model License. 

The CRL Board of Directors is pleased to announce the new Global Collections Advisory Task Force. The Global Collections Advisory Task Force will actively engage CRL community stakeholders and gather membership feedback as we move forward with CRL’s reinvestment in its longstanding mission to collectively build, preserve, and share global collections at scale in service to scholarship. 

East View Information Services and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) have launched Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers (SEUN), the sixth in-copyright collection of titles produced under the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Alliance, available now to all CRL member institutions.

East View Information Services and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) have launched the Daily Observer Digital Archive (DODA), the eighth Open Access collection produced under the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Alliance.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is pleased to announce that Robert Van Rennes will join CRL’s growing licensing team as the new Licensing Librarian. Currently Associate Director of Library Initiatives at the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), Van Rennes comes to CRL with a wealth of experience in licensing.

East View Information Services and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) have launched Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers (LIUN), the fifth in-copyright collection of titles produced under the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Alliance, available now to all CRL member institutions.

On behalf of the CRL Board of Directors, we write with an update on the current initiative to strengthen CRL’s global programs.   

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is delighted to announce that Kevin Merriman, currently Director of Collection Management, Technical and Access Services, and Technology at the Marx Science and Social Science Library at Yale University, will join CRL in January 2024 as the Director of Global Collections. In this new senior leadership position, Merriman will work with the CRL Board of Directors, staff, and broad CRL community to renew and reinvigorate CRL's global collections activities.