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.
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.
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.
De Gruyter Book Archive in German Studies
De Gruyter Book Archive provides access to over 50,000 titles. A select number of the archives are in German studies and related fields.
Le Monde
Le Monde is a French daily newspaper that was founded in 1944. The online version of Le Monde began on 19 December 1995.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection)
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982, part of the H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection, is a digital archive of the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. The archive offers all information from 44 Readers’ Guide annuals.
Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1983 (H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection)
Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1983, part of the H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection, is an archive index covering journals in the humanities and social sciences. It includes over a million indexed articles related to social sciences, including book reviews.
Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982 (H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection)
Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982, part of the H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection, is an archive covering nearly 70 years of business scholarship indexing and citations. The archive includes indexes and citations of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines and the complete files of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957).
Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 (H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection)
Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983, part of the H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection, is an archive index chronicling over a half a century of education literature covering all levels of education and education specialties. Many of the indexes are peer-reviewed.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection)
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984, part of the H.W. Wilson Retrospective Indexes collection, is an archive index covering important humanities and social sciences journals published from 1907 to 1984. Indexing includes articles and book reviews.
Digital Scholar Lab
Gale's Digital Scholar Lab is a cloud-based research tool "that enables students and researchers to apply natural-language processing tools and raw text data (OCR) from Gale Primary Sources collections in a single research platform." This resource is a tool that can be used for data mining and digital scholarship.
The Digital Scholar Lab is currently in testing with universities and is scheduled for full release in early 2018.
ORCID
ORCID provides two core functions: (1) a registry to obtain a unique identifier and manage a record of activities, and (2) APIs that support system-to-system communication and authentication. ORCID makes its code available under an open source license, and will post an annual public data file under a CC0 waiver for free download.
For more information on how a research institution can use ORCID, click here.
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.
1Science
"The 1science solutions enable libraries to rapidly collect and broadly disseminate high-quality open access articles to researchers, as well as monitoring and reporting on journal usage statistics and open access publishing trends at their institutions."
Products Include:
oaFigr Institution: subscription service which provides bibliographic analysis of a university's active journal subscriptions and what proportion of the journal's articles are available in open access. oaFindr: open access discovery platform which allows university's to find open access scholarly articles published in...SCAN
SCAN is a Russian online news archive dating back to 1983. It provides access to articles from more than 24,000 Russian and CIS sources including national and regional newspapers, trade magazines, industry journals, social media, TV/Radio transcripts, blogs and more with 200,000+ new articles uploaded to the service on a daily basis.
Colonial America
Colonial America is a five-module resource expected to incorporate all 1,450 files form the CO 5 class at The National Archives, UK. CO 5 contains the original correspondence between the Board of Trade and Secretaries of State and the English, later British, colonies in North America and the Caribbean from 1606-1822.
This is a five-module resource, with Module 1: Frontier Life, Early Expansion and Rivalries expected to be released in September 2015.
Module 1: Frontier Life, Early Expansion and Rivalries Module 2: Towards Revolution: Disputes and Origins of the Conflict Module 3: The...
Nexo Jornal
Nexo Jornal is an online news site in Brazil and was launched in the summer of 2015. Nexos has tried to carve out a space for itself somewhere in between academic research and explanatory journalism. Each week it publishes three infographics, two opinion pieces, and a quiz. Every month it publishes a piece of longform reporting. Nexo also has a section of its site dedicated to new academic research, where scholars can submit their work for consideration, and Nexo editors work with them to distill their findings into a more readable form.
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