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CRL has arranged for its members to gain access to EBSCO collections for the remainder of the academic year.

CRL has reduced access barriers to nearly 10,000 titles previously digitized (in whole or in part) through on-demand and strategic scanning.

CRL has numerous online resources available to researchers and scholars working remotely.

CRL voting member libraries have approved the acquisition of six collective collections with an estimated list price value of $121,624. Once acquired, the collections will be owned collectively by the CRL community.

The CRL/East View Global Press Archive Charter Alliance will make 500,000 pages of unique and rarely-held titles from the Middle East and North Africa accessible for research opportunities.

The deadline for voting on the FY2020 Purchase Proposal Program has been extended through Monday, December 2.

CRL and Open Access

October 25, 2019

CRL salutes International Open Access Week by recognizing a history of commitment to making primary sources collections openly accessible.

CRL announces a partnership making collections of historical source materials from the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) openly available on JSTOR at saoa.crl.edu.

Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers has been released as the first Open Access collection coming out of the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Charter Alliance, a multi-year, flagship collaboration between CRL and East View Information Services. The collection, ultimately comprising 500,000 pages from hundreds of titles published in China between 1912 and 1949, is hosted on East View’s GPA platform.

CRL invites representatives of CRL voting member libraries to nominate and vote for collections through the Purchase Proposal Program. The deadline is September 30, 2019.

Project Ceres—a collaboration between USAIN, AgNIC, and CRL—funds eight digitization projects for 2019-2020.

CRL's partner LLMC recently implemented a new viewer to support intuitive browsing and navigation at the document level.

Thanks to support from two member libraries, CRL will acquire two collections through its 2019 Shared Purchase Program.

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) recently preserved several newspapers from Indonesia.

SAMP has digitized two rare and valuable Gujarati women's journals: Strī bodh (issues from 1858-1941) and Sundarī subodha (issues from 1904-1923).

The Global Press Archive Charter Alliance will digitize and make available to all CRL member institutions 4.5 million pages of recent international newspaper content, with a significant portion of material to be made available in Open Access.

CRL voting member libraries have approved the acquisition of five primary source collections with an estimated list price value of $218,070. Once acquired, the collections will be available through interlibrary loan from CRL.

The Center for Research Libraries is the recipient of a major grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support planning for the next phase of the World Digital Library.

CRL supports research and teaching through digitization of timely, critical primary resources for scholars at CRL member institutions. 

CRL's premiere collection of executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s government is now fully searchable and downloadable.