Providers A-Z
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.
ProQuest
ProQuest LLC was acquired by Clarivate PLC (NYSE Ticker: CLVT) on December 1, 2021. Clarivate PLC offers tools and information to the scientific research, stategy, and marketing sectors.
With headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, ProQuest offers electronic databases for scholarly and scientific monographs, journals and archives of historical newspapers, periodicals, government records and publications, dissertations, and epehemera. ProQuest content is accessed most commonly through library internet gateways,a single ProQuest platform provides access to a wide range of databases across disciplines.
ProQuest's archived periodicals include Women's Wear Daily, Vogue, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Wall...
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.
Spotlight Media Labs
Spotlight Media Labs is a fresh news distribution company dedicated to the unfiltered and unbiased delivery of content from a broad range of publications.
The company’s SpotlightNews® mobile and web applications provide a quality reading experience free of pop-ups, screen takeovers, and sponsored links.
With its proprietary MyNewsstand™ technology, users can tailor their news feed to the publications and topics they are interested in.
SpotlightNews® uniquely targets U.S. college students and young alumni, counting over 100 college newspapers amongst its publisher partners.
Numérique Premium
Numérique Premium, a subsidiary of the publisher Nouveau Monde Editions, is a provider of ebooks in History and Human Sciences for libraries, in partnership with more than thirty publishers and societies in the French-speaking world.
Dar al-Mandumah
Dar al-Mandumah is a Saudi Company specialized in building and developing an Arabic database of scientific data for the purpose of research and academic use.
Coherent Digital, LLC
Coherent Digital, LLC, create databases from "content that’s uncatalogued, undiscoverable, uncitable, prone to link rot, and likely to disappear."
Their three current initiatives include:
Policy Commons— research coming from over 21,000 think tanks, NGOs, and IGOs Mindscape Commons—curates content of virtual reality and immersive video in mental health African Collections—focusing on content from the African continent
PolicyMap
In 2017, PolicyMap became a Certified Small Business and Benefit Corporation. PolicyMap, formerly from The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), curates a geographic data library with mapping and analytic tools creating their PolicyMap database.
PolicyMap provides access to thousands of customizable maps, including data on real estate, broadband infrastructure, demographics, and more from sources like Zillow, the Census, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and GreatSchools.
Classiques Garnier Numérique
Classiques Garnier Numérique offers to universities, public, private and research libraries online access to databases in the fields of literature and the humanities
The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune
According to their website, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, was founded on July 6, 1917 in the honor of the work of Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarakar, the foremost pioneer of scientific Orientology in India.
The Institute is a public organization registered under Societies Registration Act 1860 and Bombay Public Trusts Act 1950.
The institute holds a large collections of rare books and manuscripts spanning over 140,000 books and 28,000 manuscripts collected in a period of 90 years. This collection covers several language and scripts such as Sanskrit, Prakrit, Indian regional languages, Classical, Asean and European languages.
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai works and collections focuse in the field of Asian Studies. Based in Mumbai, India, The Asiatic Society was created by the British as part of a network of institutions "to generate, systematize and disseminate knowledge of India and Orient: a vast and cumulative body of information, learning and knowledge which became constituted into the field of Indology. It was encyclopaedic in its scope, embracing diverse areas like numismatics, epigraphy, anthropology, history, archaeology, linguistics, philology, natural history, geology, philosophy, literature and theology."
Today, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai Town Hall houses thousands of books, periodicals, manuscripts, and other relics and collections collected since 1804....
voxgov
voxgov harvests and organizes online government-produced publicity and media content, enabling access and searching by topics, sources, issues, trends and names of persons of interest. voxgov aggregation of information involves real-time harvesting and annotating of public policy-related materials that apear on media and government web sites, to produce value-added resources for policy research.
See voxgov CEO and founder Robert M. Dessau's presentation on voxgov at CRL's April 2014 Leviathan Forum.
Cairn France
Cairn, a limited public company based in Liege, Beligium, offers scholarly publications in the French language in the humanities and social sciences online. Cairn provides access to journals and ebooks from French, Belgian and Swiss publishers, and has offices in Liege and in Paris, France.
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).
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.
Portico
Portico preserves scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensures that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researches, and students. Portico is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Content is received from participating publishers, migrated to standard formats and preserved. Access is provided to eligible libraries when a trigger event occurs. Portico is a division of Ithaka Harbors, Inc. Portico was certified by CRL in 2010 as a trustworthy digital repository.
OpenEdition
OpenEdition is a public non-profit initiative, a joint service and research unit (USR 2004) that brings together the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Université d'Aix-Marseille, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and Avignon Université.
Reveal Digital
Reveal Digital is a limited liability company based in Ann Arbor, MI, created to develop a set of open access, web-based collections of digitized newspapers and related materials in partnership with U.S. academic libraries. Support for the enterprise is being sought in the form of direct investment by academic libraries to cover the costs of digitizing the newspapers, and the hosting and ongoing maintenance of the digital collections created.
On February 14, 2019, Reveal Digital revealed that it was an affiliate of ITHAKA. ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization that works with the global higher educational community to advance and preserve knowledge and to improve teaching and learning through the use of digital technologies.
UK Data Service
The UK Data Service is funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) "to meet the data needs of researchers, students and teachers from all [U.K.] sectors, including academia, central and local government, charities and foundations, independent research centres, think tanks, and business consultants and the commercial sector."
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.
Érudit Consortium
Érudit is a multi-institutional publishing consortium (Université de Montréal, Université Laval, Université du Québec à Montréal) and a non-profit society.
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