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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.

Preservica

Provider of cloud-based digital preservation services, formed in 2014 by Tessella as a separate, wholly owned subsidiary company. .

Updated: May 15, 2015 10:18am

Financial Times Ltd

London-based publisher of business news, opinion, data and analysis for the global business community, on print, mobile, and Web platforms, with "a combined paid print and digital circulation of 744,000." (2015). FT’s digital subscriptions account for 70% of its total circulation. 

In 2015 the "FT family" comprised:

The FT newspaper and FT.com FTChinese Medley Global Advisors (MGA) Financial Publishing FT Labs New York Institute of Finance ExecSense
Updated: Oct 1, 2015 2:02pm

Independent Radio News

A newsgathering and syndication service, established in 1973, providing news bulletins, audio and news copy to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom and beyond, originally based at the London Broadcasting Company. 

Updated: May 13, 2015 12:10pm

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

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

Data-Planet

Data-Planet™ is a large dynamic repository of statistical data.

Updated: Sep 10, 2015 7:31pm

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

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

ICPSR is a membership organization, based at the University of Michigan, that maintains an on-line repository and archive of social science data and statistics from commercial and non-commercial sources, and provides services and training for social science researchers, curators and data analysts.  

Updated: Feb 22, 2015 5:51pm

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

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

The Reinvestment Fund (TRF)

The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that manages $787 million in capital and has made over $1.5 billion in 2,945 community investments since their inception in 1985.  TRF finances community businesses using loan, equity, and other financing tools.  They support their financing with a research and policy analysis capacity for public officials and private investors. 

Updated: Feb 5, 2015 10:19am

Law Library Microform Consortium

A non-profit consortium of over 300 law libraries that preserves important historical legal publications from all world regions through microfilm and digital reformatting, and archives print source materials.  The consortium is the publisher of the LLMC-Digital database.

Updated: Nov 28, 2018 2:05pm

Thieme

Publishers of medical and scientific journals, e-journals and books.

Updated: Jan 13, 2015 10:59am

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

Government Publishing Office

"The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is the Federal Government’s official resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government. The GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three branches of the Federal Government in digital and print formats. GPO provides for permanent public access to Federal Government information through Federal Digital System (FDsys) (www.fdsys.gov). and Govinfo is GPO's beta website that will eventually replace the Federal Digital System (FDsys) public website. GPO has partnerships with approximately 1,200 libraries nationwide who participate in the Federal Depository Library...

Updated: Mar 17, 2017 12:00pm

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

ICPSR

Established in 1962, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to an extensive archive of social science data for research and instruction. It is the world’s largest digital social science data archive, comprising over 6,200 collections and 500,000 discrete files.  It acquires and ingests approximately 300-400 collections per year and manages some of the largest and widely-used social science data sets available.

ICPSR is a consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations. 

Updated: Apr 21, 2023 12:09pm

Avention, Inc.

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

Updated: Oct 2, 2014 11:36am

CB Insights

CB Insights is a financial data provider.  They also provide data-driven reports and analysis on privately and publicly owned companies.

Updated: Sep 3, 2014 12:18pm

Standard & Poor (S&P)

A financial service company that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds.

Updated: Oct 1, 2014 9:25am

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