CRL collects materials directly through purchase, exchange, deposit, and born-digital ingest.

East View Information Services and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) have launched Post-Perestroika Newspapers, the fourth in-copyright collection of titles digitized under the Global Press Archive(GPA) CRL Alliance and the first collection from Phase 2 of the program. Post-Perestroika joins three other in-copyright collections funded through the Alliance: 

CRL's newly appointed International Collections and Content Group (ICC) calls on the international library programs based at CRL to explore the challenges and opportunities in front of our communities and through that exploration, to consider new ways of working together. 

The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection, part of the CRL/East View Global Press Archive Charter Alliance, extends open access worldwide to critical sources for the study of the Russian Empire from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries.

The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) has preserved a large set of newspapers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

The International Collections and Content Group is a standing working group reporting to CSPC that will play a substantive role in shaping, implementing, and maintaining CRL’s approaches to the development and responsible stewardship of international collections.

CIFNAL, GNARP, and SEEMP have issued the following "European Studies Statement on Collection Development, Access, and Equity in the Time of COVID-19"

As a research Library, CRL shares its members’ strong interest in access to contemporary news content to support research and teaching without geographic or linguistic limits.

The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) has digitized issues of the Ukrainian Catholic newspaper Ameryka, published in Philadelphia.

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

SEEMP (Slavic and East European Materials Project) has embarked on a multi-year project to microfilm a collection of newspapers from the immediate post-Soviet period (ca. 1991-1998). 

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 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.

CRL voting member libraries have approved the acquisition of ten microform, reprint, and CD/DVD collections through the 2018 Purchase Proposal Program. List price value $132,538 (depending on the exchange rate). Once acquired, the collections will be available through interlibrary loan from CRL.  

The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) recently microfilmed twelve newspaper titles from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, spanning the years 1988-2010.

The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) has digitized 90 rare titles published in 1945-1954 by various groups of Ukrainian Émigrés living in Germany or other Western European countries.

CRL's ongoing Global Resources Law Partnership preserves, digitizes and provides access to critical primary source government and legal publications.

The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) has acquired the Russian newspaper Zapoliar'e for the years 1971-1990.

SEEMP has preserved the 1971–88 issues of the Zagreb edition of Borba.