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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.

The Odum Institute

The Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina supports social science teaching and research at UNC. The institute provides consulting on research, GIS and spatial analysis, survey research, and data management. Odum also operates a data archive. 

Updated: Sep 8, 2016 9:55am

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

The U.S. Census Bureau

The U.S. Census Bureau is a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and is overseen by the Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA). The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. The Bureau collects: decennial census of population and housing, economic census, census of governments, the American Community Survey (ACS), other surveys, and economic indicators. 

Updated: Sep 7, 2016 2:56pm

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

Datanet India

Datanet India is a privately owned company that aggregates and provides online access to socio-economic and political statistical data about India, its states, regions, and districts. 

Updated: Sep 1, 2016 4:29pm

Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS)

Created in 1988 in France, The Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) provides access to scientific publications, data, and research from Europe and around the world.

 

Updated: Sep 1, 2016 9:57am

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

Wharton School

Wharton is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania. The School has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students. 

Updated: Aug 29, 2016 2:38pm

Docuseek2

Docuseek2 is a trademarked brand of Docuseek, LLC.

Docuseek2 is an internet site where colleges, universities, and other educational institutions can discover, access, license, stream and share amongst their students, faculty and staff, documentary and social issues films and videos.

Updated: Jun 1, 2016 3:51pm

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

Ravel

Ravel is a privately held technology organization, based in San Francisco CA, specializing in platforms and tools for search, analytics, and visualization of information in the field of law.  

Updated: Apr 20, 2016 4:08pm

Corporación Latinobarómetro

Non-profit non-governmental organization based in Santiago de Chile, that collects, distributes, and analyzes public opinion data from Latin America.

Updated: Jan 18, 2017 3:41pm

Latin American Public Opinion Project

A long-running program based at Vanderbilt University, LAPOP measures and analyzes public opinion throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.The project conducts periodic in-region surveys of voting-age adults, focusing on matters of politics, governance and democracy in Latin America. Survey data are made available in the open access database, AmericasBarometer, in published reports and policy papers, and (by subscription) in structured SPSS and STATA formats.

Updated: Jan 18, 2017 2:59pm

Berliner Philharmoniker

A philharmonic orchestra based in Berlin Germany and ranked as one of the best orchestras in the world.

Updated: Mar 16, 2016 10:35am

Columbia University

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

Updated: Mar 4, 2016 12:56pm

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

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

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

United Nations Publications

Updated: Feb 17, 2016 10:02am

Springer Nature

Springer Nature is a major academic book publisher, and publisher of journals, formed in 2015 wih the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media. 

Updated: Feb 9, 2016 4:18pm

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