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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.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut is a non-profit, non-partisan international archive of social science data, specializing in data from opinion surveys.The data held by the Roper Center ranges from the mid-1930s to the present.  Most Roper survey data is from the United States, but data sets from 90 other countries are also held. The Center also provide graduate training in the practice and study of opinion survey research.  

Updated: Jun 2, 2015 8:23pm

Economist Intelligence Unit

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is an independent business within The Economist Group providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, country risk service reports, and industry reports

Updated: Feb 27, 2015 12:58pm

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

International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global growth and economic stability. It provides policy advice and financing to members in economic difficulties and also works with developing nations to help them achieve macroeconomic stability and reduce poverty.

Updated: Sep 10, 2015 7:37pm

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

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

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

IOP Publishing

IOP Publishing provides a range of journals, ebooks, magazines, websites and services that enable researchers and research organisations to reach the widest possible audience for their research.

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

Professional Engineering Publishing

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

ICE Publishing

ICE Publishing produces a wide range of books and journals sharing expert advice, leading research and best practice in civil engineering and construction.

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

The Geological Society of America

The Geological Society of America™ provides access to elements that are essential to the professional growth of earth scientists at all levels of expertise and from all sectors: academic, government, business, and industry.

Updated: Sep 18, 2015 3:23pm

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

Wolters Kluwer Health (Medical Research) Ltd

The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory sectors.

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

World Bank

Since its inception in 1944, the World Bank has expanded from a single institution to an associated group of coordinated development institutions with a shared goal of reducing poverty. The Bank's mission evolved from a facilitator of post-war reconstruction and development to its present day mandate of worldwide poverty alleviation. The World Bank's most recent stated goal is the reduction of poverty in part by creating learning opportunities for countries. 

Updated: Jan 10, 2019 1:20pm

Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Springer Science + Business Media, or known as Springer, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, technical and medical publishing.

Updated: Sep 18, 2015 3:23pm

SCR Publishing Ltd

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

Project MUSE

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.

Updated: Sep 18, 2015 3:23pm

Oxford University Press (MLAG)

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

Begell House Inc

Academic publisher of medical and scientific journals and books, with a concentration on engineering and biological sciences.

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

The HW Wilson Company

H.W. Wilson publishes database and reference resources to serve libraries, schools and corporations.

Updated: Oct 4, 2016 11:02am

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