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CRL gathers and provides information here about publishers, aggregators, preservation services, and other organizations that host, publish, and maintain digital resources of interest to the CRL community.  This information is intended to inform library decisions on investment in electronic resources and related services.

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Crimson Hexagon

Crimson Hexagon is a social media analytics company based out of Boston, Massachusetts.

Updated: Oct 25, 2016 1:42pm

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1Science

"1science empowers libraries to fully participate in the open access movement, helping them deliver an improved research and discovery experience to their institutions. The 1science solutions enable libraries to rapidly collect and broadly disseminate high-quality open access articles to researchers, as well as monitoring and reporting on journal usage statistics and open access publishing trends at their institutions."

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oaFigr Institution: subscription service which provides bibliographic analysis of a university's active journal subscriptions and what proportion of the journal's articles are available in open access. ...
Updated: Jul 27, 2017 10:49am

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ACI Information Group, LLC

Founded in 2004 as Newstex, today ACI Information Group is an aggregator of editorially selected and curated social media publications. Most well known for their ACI News and Commentary database which is a collection of news and blogs that are aggregated and syndicated to resellers.

Their new product ACI Scholarly Blog Index aggregates editorially selected and curated scholarly social media publications which then are enhanced with metadata, taxonomies, and proprietary Author Profile Cards. 

Updated: Feb 19, 2016 10:49am

Adam Matthew Digital

Adam Matthew is an independent subsidiary within the SAGE Group, based in the UK. Adam Matthew publishes unique and rare primary source collections digitized from archives in a number of countries.
Updated: Oct 19, 2015 3:44pm

African Elections Database

Archive of past and present election results for the 49 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, since 2004. 

Updated: Sep 14, 2018 10:19am

Airbus Defense and Space

Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus (European corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells civil and military aeronautical products) that is responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. 

Updated: Aug 24, 2017 12:28pm

Alexander Street Press

Alexander Street Press, a subsidiary of ProQuest based in Alexandria, VA, publishes large-scale digital collections in the humanities and social sciences. The company also provides media hosting and integration services to public, school, and academic libraries worldwide.
Updated: Aug 16, 2017 12:35pm

American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society is a US-based, "congressionally chartered independent membership organization that represents professionals at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry and sciences that involve chemistry."  Members are in academia, government and industry, and from medicine, engineering, agriculture, and related chemical and pharamaceutical businesses and industries.  

The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is a division of the American Chemical Society that indexes and abstracts a large portion of the world’s chemical information and literature.  CAS has created and maintains key collections, databases and indexes; produces and distributes tools and interfaces for managing and analyzing chemical related information; and provides an array of...

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

American Council of Learned Societies

A private, nonprofit federation of 72 national scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social sciences.

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

American Economic Association

The American Economic Association is a learned society in the field of economics, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.  It was established in 1885 in Saratoga, New York. Once composed primarily of college and university teachers of economics, the Association now attracts an increasing number of members from business and professional groups. It publishes one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics: the American Economic Review. 

Each year, the AEA recognizes the lifetime research contributions of four economists by electing them Distinguished Fellows. The Association also awards annually the John Bates Clark Medal for outstanding research accomplishments in economics to a scholar; it is often referred to as the "Baby Nobel," as...

Updated: Oct 6, 2015 2:57pm

American National Election Studies

The American National Election Studies (ANES) is a collaborative project of Stanford University and the University of Michigan, with funding by the National Science Foundation. The project produces data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation for the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers, and journalists. 

Updated: Sep 8, 2016 12:54pm

American Physical Society

The American Physical Society is a non-profit membership organization based in College Park, Maryland, dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of  the knowledge of physics through the publication of research journals, the hosting of scientific meetings, and education, advocacy, and other activities. Members include physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and abroad. 

Updated: Jan 17, 2017 12:59pm

American Physiological Society

Non-profit association founded in 1887 and based in Bethesda, Maryland, the APS is publisher of the American Journal of Physiology, Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, others. Members include those with doctoral degrees  in medicine, physiology and other health-related fields.   

Updated: Jan 17, 2017 12:37pm

Annual Reviews

Publisher of a collection of 41 review series in specific disciplines in science and social science.

Updated: Sep 18, 2015 3:23pm

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project. The ACLED team collects the dates, actors, types of violence, locations, and fatalities of all reported political violence and protest events across Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and the Middle East. The project receives financial support from the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), U.S. Department of State.

Updated: Sep 4, 2018 10:36am

The Asiatic Society of Mumbai

The Asiatic Society of Mumbai works and collections focuse in the field of Asian Studies.  Based in Mumbai, India, The Asiatic Society was created by the British as part of a network of institutions "to generate, systematize and disseminate knowledge of India and Orient: a vast and cumulative body of information, learning and knowledge which became constituted into the field of Indology. It was encyclopaedic in its scope, embracing diverse areas like numismatics, epigraphy, anthropology, history, archaeology, linguistics, philology, natural history, geology, philosophy, literature and theology."

Today, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai Town Hall houses thousands of books, periodicals, manuscripts, and other relics and collections collected since 1804....

Updated: Oct 30, 2020 3:34pm

Association for Asian Studies, Inc

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. The society has approximately 8,000 members worldwide. AAS produces the Bibliography of Asian Studies, the Journal of Asian Studies (JAS), and select books, monographs, and occasional paper series.

Updated: Oct 22, 2014 8:48am

The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)

The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) is an organization that provides access to data on religion, initially targeted at researchers interested in American religion and now expanded to American and international collections.

Updated: Sep 22, 2016 1:06pm

Atlantic Media

Washington DC-based media organization, publisher of The Atlantic, National Journal, and The Wire, with "digital, print, event, social, and mobile platforms"; traces its origins to The Atlantic Monthly, founded in Boston in1857.  

Updated: May 15, 2016 7:29pm

Avention, Inc.

Avention, Inc., formerly known as OneSource Information Services, provides financial data and profiles of compaines worlwide.

Updated: Oct 2, 2014 11:36am

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