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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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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

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

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

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

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BBC Monitoring

BBC Monitoring (BBCM) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation, a UK based international public service broadcaster. The BBC is a corporation operating under Royal Charter and Agreement from the UK government.  BBC Monitoring selects and translates news information from various broadcasting venues (radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet) from countries worldwide. 

Distinct from most other BBC services, through 2012 the funding of BBC Monitoring came principally from its stakeholders (primarily through Grant-in-Aid from the Cabinet Office). In 2013/14, Cabinet Office funding was discontinued, and BBCM is now supported in part through the TV license fee paid by UK households to the BBC Trust.

Updated: Feb 14, 2015 6:39pm

The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune

According to their website, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, was founded on July 6, 1917 in the honor of the work of Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarakar, the foremost pioneer of scientific Orientology in India.

The Institute is a public organization registered under Societies Registration Act 1860 and Bombay Public Trusts Act 1950.

The institute holds a large collections of rare books and manuscripts spanning over 140,000 books and 28,000 manuscripts collected in a period of 90 years. This collection covers several language and scripts such as Sanskrit, Prakrit, Indian regional languages, Classical, Asean and European languages.

Updated: Oct 30, 2020 3:58pm

Biodiversity Heritage Library

A federation of cooperating institutions joined in an effort, in partnership with the Internet Archive, to provide open access to biological information and digitized publications about species via the Web.   

Updated: Mar 17, 2015 12:24pm

Brill

Brill is an independent publishing company, founded in 1683.  Based in Leiden, with offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill publishes journals, new books, and reference works in the humanities, social sciences, international law and (to a lesser extent) science.  In addition, Brill is a provider of primary source materials online and on microform for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Brill imprints include Brill, IDC, Nijhoff Brill (formerly Martinus Nijhoff), Rodopi Brill, Hes & De Graaf, and Hotei Publishing.

Updated: Oct 15, 2018 10:48am

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CEDROM-SNi

CEDROM-SNi is a Canadian aggregator of newspaper, magazine, and television content.

Updated: Oct 27, 2014 2:56pm

Cairn France

Cairn, a limited public company based in Liege, Beligium, offers scholarly publications in the French language in the humanities and social sciences online. Cairn provides access to journals and ebooks from French, Belgian and Swiss publishers, and has offices in Liege and in Paris, France.

Updated: Aug 5, 2020 10:30am

Canadiana.org

Canadiana.org is a part of the Canadiana Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). It works together with the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and others to present Canada's documentary heritage content online. The organization provides access and preservation infrastructure for Canadian publications. In April 2018, Canadiana.org merged with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

Updated: Sep 18, 2019 9:55am

Casalini Libri

Casalini Libri is an European library supplier specializing in Italian, Spanish, French, Porteguese and Greek publications, and databases

Updated: Aug 30, 2016 5:16pm

Cengage Learning

Cengage Learning is an educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education and K-12, professional and library markets. Cengage Learning's higher education product lines include learning solutions such as MindTap, and engagement services such as curriculum development and course redesign. The company's library and research products are managed through Gale (formerly part of Thomson Learning). 

Cengage Learning employs more than 5,500 people in 20 countries, and its annual revenue is approximately $1.5 billion.

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd

A business and economic database and research company, based in Mumbai, India. It provides business data and services to governments, academia, financial markets, business enterprises, and the media.

Updated: Feb 18, 2015 12:36pm

Classiques Garnier Numérique

Classiques Garnier Numérique offers to universities, public, private and research libraries online access to databases in the fields of literature and the humanities

Updated: Dec 15, 2020 9:07am

Coherent Digital, LLC

Coherent Digital, LLC, create databases from "content that’s uncatalogued, undiscoverable, uncitable, prone to link rot, and likely to disappear."

Their three current initiatives include:

Policy Commons— research coming from over 21,000 think tanks, NGOs, and IGOs Mindscape Commons—curates content of virtual reality and immersive video in mental health African Collections—focusing on content from the African continent

 

Updated: Jul 12, 2021 1:54pm

Columbia University

Columbia University is the hosting institution for various digital libraries and archives.

Updated: Mar 4, 2016 12:56pm

CoreLogic

CoreLogic is an aggregator and database provider of property and related financial records in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, with a growing presence in the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and India.

Updated: Oct 25, 2016 2:23pm

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