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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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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

PressReader

Previously known as NewspaperDirect Inc., PressReader is a distributor of digital newspaper content, products, and platforms. 

Updated: Aug 23, 2017 9:31am

PrivCo

PrivCo is a source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.

Updated: Sep 1, 2015 12:19pm

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...

Updated: Oct 12, 2023 3:37pm

Professional Engineering Publishing

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

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Public Library of Science (known as PLOS) is a non-profit publisher of Open Access journals.  As of 2021, PLOS is publishing articles in the following seven Open Access Journals:

PLOS One PLOS Biology PLOS Computational Biology PLOS Genetics PLOS Medicine PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLOS Pathogens

 

Updated: Apr 8, 2021 3:54pm

Publishers Weekly LLC

PWxyz LLC is a digital media assets company based in New York and the parent company of Publishers Weekly, its signature brand. Founded in 1872, Publishers Weekly is the international news platform of the book publishing industry and boasts 1.11 million Twitter, Facebook and other social media followers; publishes nine e-newsletters, BookLife (a website and monthly supplement), two blogs, a mobile edition, site licenses, digital editions and apps; and features a thriving website that reaches 1 million unique visitors each month.

Updated: Sep 1, 2020 5:54pm

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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

Readex

Readex is a subsidiary of NewsBank Inc., a privately held company based in Naples, Florida (USA). Established in 1950 as the Readex Microprint Corporation and acquired by NewsBank, Inc. in 1984, Readex is a major aggregator of newspaper and other content in digital, microform and print formats. Through partnerships with publishers, governments and other entities mostly in the English-speaking world, Readex has aggregated tens of millions of news articles and government publications from thousands of sources dating from the seventeenth century to the present day.    Its major focus is the production of news collections in  searchable online databases, through web-enabled proprietary interfaces. Its text processing, indexing and metadata...
Updated: Nov 3, 2018 9:59am

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

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.

Updated: Feb 15, 2019 9:41am

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

Routledge

Routledge is a global publisher of academic books, journals and online resources in the humanities and social sciences. Routledge is a member (since 1998) of the Taylor & Francis Group LLC, a trading division of Informa UK Ltd. Routledge's online resources include ebooks, online journals, reference resources, and a growing array of primary source collections such as the Armed Conflict Database and the South Asia Archive. 

Updated: Oct 21, 2014 10:18am

Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry of UK, carries out research, publishes journals, books and databases, as well as hosting conferences, seminars and workshops.

Updated: Dec 16, 2014 3:26pm

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SAGE

Independent U.S.-based academic and professional publisher with offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, and Washington, D.C., publishes journals, books, reference works and databases in business, humanities, social sciences, sciences, technology, and medicine. 

Updated: Sep 8, 2015 12:35pm

SCR Publishing Ltd

Updated: Oct 1, 2015 5:56pm

STAT+

STAT delivers trusted and authoritative journalism about health, medicine, and the life sciences. Millions of new readers turned to us as we sounded the alarm early on about the Covid-19 pandemic. Our journalists go deep in tough-minded coverage of the business of making medicines, health tech, science, and public health.  

Updated: Jul 28, 2023 8:17am

Sabinet Online Limited

Founded in 1983, Sabinet is a South Africa-based aggregator and online publisher of journals and other literature produced in Southern Africa, and provider of digital services and platforms to libraries in South Africa.  Sabinet's client base also includes research organisations, law firms and individuals.  Sabinet aggregates and publishes electronic journal content in several fields: law; labor; medicine and health; science, technology and agriculture; and the humanities and social sciences.  The databases are available through subscription or openly accessible on the web. 

Updated: Apr 22, 2015 3:11pm

Semantics Kommunikationsmanagement GmbH

Semantics GmbH is a German company that provides databases for libraries and archives, as well communication logistics, and document management solutions for corporations.  The company was founded by linguists who had worked as part of their scientific activities with issues of automated text production and digital archiving.

Updated: Sep 21, 2015 9:48am

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