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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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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

Medical Heritage Library

Founded in 2010, the Medical Heritage Library, Inc. is an online research, education, and digitization collaborative that aims to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society.

The MHL was initiated by the Open Knowledge Commons, which was awarded $1.5 million dollars in start-up funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to begin digitization at partner libraries. In May 2018, it was incorporated as a nonprofit organization. 

Updated: Jun 10, 2020 3:38pm

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

Microform Academic Publishers

Microform Imaging Limited has two distinct trading divisions. Microform Scanning & Microfilming which provides bureau services, and Microform Academic Publishers which maintains the company’s original pedigree focusing on preservation and dissemination of the information and knowledge stored in libraries, archives and record offices from all corners of the United Kingdom. Additionally their British Online Archives (BOA) is used for their digitized primary source collections under the parent company of Microform Academic Publishers.

As of September 2018, the North American sales representative for the BOA collections is Digital Micro Media (DMM).

Updated: Nov 1, 2018 9:39am

Minnesota Population Center

The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is an interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research, based at the University of Minnesota.  MPC develops, gathers and processes demographic data, for faculty and research scientists at the University of Minnesota, and demographic researchers worldwide. MPS maintains and administers several social science databases, including IPUMS.

Updated: Feb 23, 2015 7:58pm

Modern Language Association of America

Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America is a large scholarly association with over 26,000 members in 100 countries. MLA host an annual convention and other meetings and sustain a wide-ranging print and electronic publishing program that includes books, journals, style guides, and an international bibliography.

Updated: Oct 6, 2015 2:53pm

Le Monde Group

Le Monde Group is the publishing company that publishes France’s most famous publications, including Le Monde, Courrier International, Télérama, La Vie, and HuffPost.

Updated: Jun 18, 2021 1:24pm

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

Moody's Investors Service

Moody's Investors Service provides international financial research on bonds issued by commercial and government entities. 

Updated: Dec 14, 2016 11:39am

Morningstar Inc.

Morningstar, Inc. is a for-profit, publicly traded investment research and investment management firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by Joe Mansueto in 1984, Morningstar provides data and related services on investment offerings, stocks, mutual funds for research. As of March 31, 2017 the company had operations in 27 countries.

Updated: May 24, 2017 4:49pm

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

Munzinger-Archiv GmbH

Munzinger is a provider of German reference works, as well as online materials related to music, literature, film, and biography.

Updated: Aug 16, 2017 12:53pm

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NA Publishing

NA Publishing was established in 2005.  It purports to specialize in "comprehensive solutions for serials archiving in the library market..." NAPC provides various services, such as digitization and microfilming, metadata capture & creation; text conversion; custom output formatting; film duplication & replacement; and archive hosting. 

 

 

Updated: Oct 3, 2016 4:38pm

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the Government agency that preserves and maintains documents that record important events in American history and makes them available for research. NARA colllects documents from each branch and agency of the U.S. government. NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential proclamations and executive orders, and federal regulations.

Nara's Office of the Federal Register publishes the Federal RegisterCode of Federal Regulations, and United States Statutes at Large, among others. NARA is also responsbile for administering preservation grants through the...

Updated: Mar 20, 2017 11:59am

NK Consulting Inc.

NK Consulting Inc. is a Delaware-based corporation that provides custom research and consulting assistance regarding North Korea to clients within the fields of government, business, not-for-profit and academia. The company provides forecasting, risk analysis, business consulting, legal advice, and other services.

According to their website, NK Consulting is a "separately directed sister company" of NK News. However, licensing terms for NK News subscriptions are negotiated between the subscriber and NK Consulting.

Updated: Apr 1, 2015 11:53am

National MicroMedia

Updated: Dec 16, 2014 5:51pm

National Security Archive

Founded in 1985, the National Security Archive is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-governmental organization. The NSA is located at George Washington University and was founded by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy. 

Updated: Nov 16, 2018 10:17am

Natural Earth

Natural Earth is a project aimed at providing access to public domain map datasets. It was built through collaborative volunteer efforts and is supported by the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). 

Updated: Sep 8, 2016 9:20am

Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of scientific and medical information in print and online. Until 2015 NPG was a wholly-owned US subsidiary of the U.K.-based Macmillan Publishers Limited, NPG publishes journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.

Updated: Feb 9, 2016 4:22pm

New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is a publicly traded for-profit media company established in 1851 (and incorporated 1896). It publishes its flagship newspaper, The Nerw York Times, as well as the International New York Times and their related websites (NYTimes.com and international.nytimes.com). Related business assets include The Times news services division, digital archive distribution, its conference business and other products and services under The Times brand. The company has non-controlling ownership interests in newsprint companies and paper mills.

Updated: Aug 16, 2017 12:56pm

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