Resources A-Z
CRL gathers and provides information here about commercial and open access digital resources of interest to the CRL community. This information is intended to inform library decisions on investment in electronic resources and related services.
Fire Insurance Maps online (FIMo)
Fire Insurance Maps online (FIMo) is an online subscription service that provides access to a collection of historical fire insurance maps.
Maps in their collection include publications by Sanborn, Perris, Hexamer, Whipple, Baist, Bromley, Hopkins and others.
In 2014, The Library of Congress granted HIG access to scan over 500,000 maps to add to their online collection.
World News Connection
The World News Connection (WNC) contains English-language transcriptions of news articles from selected non-U.S. sources, generated by the U.S. Open Source Center. WNC began distribution in 1995 as a successor product to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports. The service was discontinued on December 31, 2013.
The WNC offered by East View Information Services offers access to 856,013 items dating from 1995 to 2013. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
Pravda (Правда)
East View Information Services has collected and digitized the archives of this historic Soviet and Russian newspaper title, starting with its first issue from April 22, 1912 and continuing through present day. The archive was released to the public in early 2010. As of October 2019, there are 29,660 full-text issues of the Russian newspaper.
Gudok (Гудок)
The Gudok (Гудок) archive provides access to 26,447 digital issues of the Russian trade newspaper. This collection covers issues dating from 1918 to the present. The archive is full-image and searchable text.
East View reports that the archive grows with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Kavkaz (Кавказ)
The Kavkaz (Кавказ) digital archive contains 15,465 full text and full image issues of the historic Russian-language newspaper. The collection covers issues from 1846 to 1918. The archive is full-image and searchable text.
This is static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Literaturnaia Gazeta (Литературная газета)
The Literaturnaia Gazeta (Литературная газета) digital archive contains 6,470 issues of this cultural and political newspaper from Russia. The collection covers issues dating from 1929 to the present. The archive is full-image and searchable text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Novoe Russkoe Slovo (Новое русское слово)
Digital archive of Novoe Russkoe Slovo (Новое русское слово) containing 14,106 full-text issues of the Russian language newspaper, published in New York. The collection covers issues dating from 1918 to 2010. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
This is a static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Sovetskaia Kul’tura (Советская культура)
Digital archive of Sovetskaia Kul’tura (Советская культура) containing 5,229 full-text issues of the paper that covers cultural events and developments within Russia. The collection covers issues dating from 1929 to the present. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Za Vozvrashchenie na Rodinu (За возвращение на Родину)
Digital archive of Za Vozvrashchenie na Rodinu (За возвращение на Родину) containing 401 issues of the Russian language newspaper published in Germany. The collection covers issues dating from 1955 to 1960. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
This is a static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) (解放军报)
Digital archive of Jiefangjun Bao (解放军报), the official newspaper of the military of the People's Republic of China. The archive contains 22,443 full-text issues, dating from 1956 to the present. The archive is fully searchable by text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and is hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Donetsk and Luhansk Newspaper Collection
Digital archive of newspapers aggregated from two self-proclaimed independent states, Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic. The archive contains 848 issues dating from 2013 to 2015. The archive is full-image with searchable text.
This is a static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Afghan Serials Collection
Digital archive of serials from the Wahdat Library, featuring 46 newspapers and journals published in Persian, Pushto, Arabic, Urdu, and English from Afghanistan. This archive from East View contains 3,587 full text issues dating from 1968 to 2001. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and are hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Neues Deutschland
Digital archive of Neues Deutschland, the official newspaper of the former German Democratic Republic, containing 25,251 issues. The content dates from 1946 to the present. The archive is full-image with searchable text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and is hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Rafu Shimpō (羅府新報)
Digital archive of Rafu Shimpō, a Japanese-American newspaper published in the United States. It contains 30,361 full-text issues dating from 1929 to the present. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and is hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Al-Ahram (الأهرام)
Digital archive of Al-Ahram (الأهرام), Egypt's newspaper of record. It contains 6,201 issues dating from 1982 to the present. The archive is full-image with searchable text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and is hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Argumenty i Fakty (Аргументы и факты)
Argumenty i Fakty (Аргументы и факты) provides access to 1,874 issues of full-text newspapers published during the Gorbachev era. The dates covered in this collection are: 1983-present. The archive is full-image and searchable text.
East View reports that the archive grows with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Mirror Historical Archive, 1903-2000
Mirror Historical Archive, 1903-2000 provides access to full-text searchable archive of The Mirror, a daily UK National newspaper.
Political Extremism & Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia
Political Extremism & Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia provides access to primary source material related to far-right and fascist movements. It includes material from the National Archives, such as: Security Service personal files on right-wing extremists, suspected communists and terrorists as well as Home Office papers on detainees, such as Oswald Mosley, who were related to far-right groups including the British Union of Fascists, British National Party, Imperial Fascist League, the Nordic League and The Link.
Women's Studies
The Women's Studies collections provide access to a collection of manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more material tracing the path of women's issues from past to present.
National Geographic Magazine Archive
National Geographic Magazine Archive provides access to fully searchable issues of National Geographic.
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