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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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Digitalia

Founded in 2007, Digitalia provides digital tools and a web-based platform for distribution of a wide range of Spanish language e-books, e-journals,and other electronic publications produced by Spanish and Latin American publishers.  

Updated: Dec 1, 2015 1:30pm

Dow Jones & Company

Dow Jones & Company is an American publishing and financial information firm that owns and distributes The Wall Street JournalBarron's Magazine, Factivia, among other news publications and products. 

Updated: Dec 14, 2016 11:56am

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EBSCO Information Services

Publisher and aggregator of electronic journals, e-books, databases and other content, based in Ipswich, Massachusetts. EBSCO also offers EBSCO Discovery Service, a content discovery platform for libraries.  

EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

Updated: Oct 6, 2015 2:56pm

East View Information Services

East View Information Services (EVIS) is a provider of native and translated foreign language information products and services, including Russian, Chinese, and Arabic databases, print periodicals, books and microforms. The company serves academic institutions, government organizations, corporations, public and federal libraries and law firms. East View was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, with major offices in Russia and Ukraine. 

East View is comprised of East View Information Services (www.eastview.com), East View Press (www.eastviewpress.com), East View Geospatial (www.geospatial.com) and East View Map Link (www.maplink.com).

Updated: Aug 16, 2017 12:46pm

Esri

Privately held corporation founded in 1969 as Environmental Systems Research Institute., a  research group focused on land-use planning. "The company's early mission was to organize and analyze geographic information to help land planners and land resource managers make well-informed environmental decisions."

The firm provides ArcGIS, a widely adopted (with a significant share of the GIS software market worldwide) cloud-based mapping system for cataloging, visualizing, and...

Updated: Feb 7, 2017 3:03pm

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FactSet Research Systems Inc

FactSet Research Systems Inc is a financial data and software company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. 

Updated: Dec 13, 2016 12:26pm

Financial Information Incorporated

Aggregator and publisher of information on securities, bonds and other financial instruments, founded in New York in 1911.  

Updated: Jun 26, 2017 3:15pm

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was founded in 1949 and is the German newspaper with the largest circulation outside of Germany.  It is published in the city of Frankfurt.

Updated: Oct 27, 2014 2:48pm

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Gale

Gale is a division of Cengage Learning Inc., a privately held for-profit corporation based in Stamford, CT,  heavily invested in textbook publishing. Gale publishes major databases of digitized materials for the post-secondary academic market.

Updated: Aug 27, 2019 9:41am

Gallup

Gallup is an American research-based, global performance-management consulting company known for its public opinion polls. Gallup also provides subscription-based research, analytics, and consulting to organizations. 

Updated: Sep 7, 2016 12:15pm

Grupo Estado

Grupo Estado is a private holding company comprised of several news and broadcasting outlets in Brazil, including O Estado de S. Paulo, Agência Estado, Rádio Estadão, OESP Mídia, and several others. It is one of the largest newspaper companies in Brazil.  Estado was founded in 1875, making it the oldest newspaper in the city of São Paulo still in circulation. The company began diversification in 1958 with the launch of Rádio Eldorado, and began publishing the Jornal da Tarde in 1966. Since 2000, the group operates several of its online media publications through the portal Estadao.com.br. 

Updated: Oct 22, 2014 9:56am

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L'Harmattan

L'Harmattan is a French publisher, specializing in literature and the humanities.  They offer many of these works, including books and films, on their digital platform.

Updated: Oct 8, 2014 9:57am

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Image Data Conversion

Image Data Conversion, LLC owns three subsidiaries that provide data conversion, preservation, and digital publishing solutions to the library, publishing, government and corporate markets. IDC acquired eBeam Film (formerly Image Graphics Inc) in 2011, launched Reveal Digital in 2011, and acquired NA Publishing in 2013. NA Publishing offers serials management solutions, such as depository and acquisition program, conversion, and microform preservation and replacement services; serials publishing program, including periodicals on microform and replica services; and a weekly publication for publishing news and reviews. The Publishers Weekly Digital Archive is a significant collection that NA Publishing is currentlydigitizing. Reveal Digital was founded...

Updated: Feb 22, 2016 11:44am

IntelCenter

IntelCenter provides counterterrorism intelligence services and information to the intelligence, military and law enforcement communities in the US and abroad, focusing on terrorist and rebel groups, including the FARC in Colombia, Maoists in Nepal, al-Qaeda and its affiliates, and others.  .

Updated: Sep 14, 2015 2:32pm

Interfax Information Services Group

Interfax Group is a leading provider of critical information on Russia, China and emerging markets of Eurasia, serving the needs of investors, corporations, financial professionals and the media. Interfax provides about 100 specialized information services, supplying weekly and daily intelligence reports with industry analysis, business information, real-time news, market data and ratings and credit reports. The Interfax Group has a global operational network, with over 1000 staff daily turning out over 3000 stories from over 70 bureaus worldwide. Sectors covered by Interfax include: banking & finance, oil & gas, energy, power, mining & metals, food & agriculture, pharmaceutical & health sciences, telecoms media technology (TMT), Insurance, in addition to...

Updated: Jan 30, 2018 3:56pm

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LexisNexis

LexisNexis is a commercial provider of legal, business, and risk management research and data products, founded in 1973. Now a subsidiary of the publicly traded RELX Group, a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, LexisNexis Legal & Professional is based in New York with offices worldwide.  The Center for Research Libraries profiled LexisNexis in 2006; the full profile can be found at: https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/LexisNexisprofile.pdf.

Updated: Apr 25, 2018 10:01am

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McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Education partners around the world with students, educators, administrators and other professionals to deliver engaging, adaptive and personalized solutions that improve performance and results.

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

Mergent Inc.

Mergent Inc.  owned by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)  "provides business and financial information on global publicly listed companies, as well as print and online library solutions. It offers research solutions, such as Mergent Online that offers detailed insight into company and industry research; Mergent Intellect, a Web-based application that features a collection of worldwide business information; Mergent Bondviewer, which contains a range of bond data that involves issuer and issue-level terms and conditions for the United States taxable bonds, municipal bonds, and retail notes; First Research industry reports that provide industry research; and Hoover’s Academic solution...

Updated: Nov 20, 2017 11:05am

Money.net

Money.net is a software provider offering access to data and analytic tools for investment and trade. 

Updated: Mar 27, 2017 3:52pm

Multidata Services Inc.

Founded in 2000, Multidata Services Inc (MSI) is a a research corporation which handles and provides access to information related to the Arab world. MSI provides services in the field of information technology, documentation, indexing, data automation and research.

Updated: Aug 21, 2019 3:20pm

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