CRL gathers information and reports on digital repositories that preserve source materials of interest to the CRL community. Reports are based on information obtained from the repositories themselves, from reliable independent sources, and through formal audits.

Dissertations

• ProQuest UMI Dissertation Publishing - ProQuest UMI is the largest repository of theses and dissertations produced at U.S. and Canadian universities.
  • ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing Website
  • CRL 2008 Profile
  • Canadian Library Agreement
  • Library of Congress Agreement
  • Charleston Advisor April 2008 Summary

Government Information

• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
  Electronic Records Archive Project (ERA)
  • NARA’s ERA Website
  • CRL 2006 Profile
  • ERA Requirements as of 8/11/2006 
  • Draft of NARA Plan for Digitizing Archival Materials for Public Access, 2007

Electronic Journals

• Koninklijke Bibliotheek’s e-Depot – The national library of the Netherlands’ official digital repository of Elsevier Science Direct and other electronic journals
  • e-Depot Website
  • CRL 2005 Profile

• Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) – A distributed e-journal archiving system developed within the Stanford University community.
  • LOCKSS Website
  • CRL 2007 Audit Report
  • Charleston Advisor January 2008 Summary

• Portico – A production-level archiving service under the auspices of Ithaka.
  • Portico Website
  • CRL 2005 Profile
  • CRL 2006 Audit Report
  • CRL 2010 Audit Report
  • Charleston Advisor January 2008 Summary

Social Sciences

• General Social Survey (GSS) – A program of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), collecting and maintaining data on opinions held by the American public.
  • GSS Website
  • CRL 2008 Profile
  • Charleston Advisor July 2008 Summary

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research(ICPSR) - ICPSR maintains and provides access to social science data for research and instruction
  • ICPSR Website
  • CRL 2005 Profile
  • CRL 2006 Audit Report
  • The Charleston Advisor April 2008 Summary

News

• Associated Press (AP) – A global news network that gathers and distributes news reports in text, still and moving image, and audio formats from all parts of the world.
  • AP Website
  • AP 2008 Profile
  • Charleston Advisor October 2008 Summary

• LexisNexis - An online database, serving the legal profession and business, government, and academic markets, provides access to information from more than 31,000 news and government sources
  • LexisNexis Website
  • CRL 2006 Profile

• NewsBank – An aggregator of contemporary news content, drawing from more than 1,100 U.S. and foreign news sources, including newspapers, magazines, wire services, broadcasts, and news digest services
  • NewsBank Website
  • CRL 2006 profile

Web Content

• Internet Archive – An organization that harvests digital content from the Web, and stores and maintains that content in an open access digital repository. The Internet Archive’s Archive-It harvesting service uses Open Source Web crawler Heretrix to harvest sites from the surface Web.
  • Internet Archive Website
  • CRL 2004 analysis of the Wayback Machine in Political Communications Web Archive Project report
  • CRL 2006 analysis of Archive-It service