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

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. 

South Asia Open Archives (available at saoa.crl.edu) recently published approximately 600 issues of Morning Star.

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.

South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) celebrates 2020 Open Access Week, from October 19-25, 2020.

The South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) and South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) have collaborated to make freely available ninety-seven issues of the Madras Legislative Assembly Debates (from 1938 to 1958).

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

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.

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.

SAMP has digitized holdings of the newspaper Svadeśa for the years 1919-1929.  This newspaper was published in Hindi in the city of Gorkhpur.

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 South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), administered by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), has recently begun digitizing the Indian Newspaper Reports containing weekly translations and summaries of local Anglo-Indian and vernacular-language newspapers from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century, from throughout South Asia.

The South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) has digitized the magazine Nalupu (Black) for the entire run of its publication, April 1989-June 1993.  This is one of the pioneering magazines which brought together discussions of caste and class politics in the Telugu-speaking regions of India.

The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) is a newly established cooperative effort of nearly 25 libraries from the US and the Subcontinent to make collection of historical research materials on South Asia freely available via the web..

Readex's metadata for digitized newspapers provides valuable data on publication history and product coverage in key databases for academic research.

The South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) at CRL has recently launched the SAMP Open Archives initiative to create and maintain a collection of open access materials for the study of South Asia. This major collaborative initiative is aimed at addressing the current scarcity of digital resources pertinent to South Asian studies and at making collections more widely accessible both to North American scholars and to researchers elsewhere in the world.

The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) and the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) contributed funds for the preservation of seventeen newspaper and serial titles published in Afghanistan.

LLMC (Law Library Microform Consortium) has digitized a collection of early legal publications from Myanmar (Burma).  The material covers 1872-1955.

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