The Center for Research Libraries provides this overview of current offers to support informed investment by its members in electronic resources. CRL gathers and organizes information about databases, e-resources, and collective publishing models of interest to CRL libraries.
We are currently transitioning this list from eDesiderata and internal sources. We appreciate your patience during this period.
The Oxford Journals Collection boats 375 titles spanning research from 1996-present published in high-quality peer-reviewed journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Law, Medicine, Life Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics.
The world's most comprehensive policy database, with over 17 million reporFrom the largest in Australia to the smallest in Zimbabwe, every year IGOs, NGOs, nonprofits, and think tanks around the world publish tens of thousands of items. Global Think Tanks finds and preserves grey literature from every continent, including voices from the Global South, small organizations missed by conventional search engines, and content recovered from groups that no longer exist.ts from 41,000 think tanks, agencies, governments, and cities—and tools to supercharge your research.
PolicyMap is a curated geographic data library with powerful mapping and analysis tools for academic research, instruction, and planning. The platform includes over 70,000 indicators from 170+ trusted sources, spanning public datasets from CDC, HUD, BLS, and FEMA; proprietary sources like Claritas (available summer 2025); and PolicyMap’s own analytics on equity, affordability, and neighborhood change.
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PolicyMap is widely used to support research and instruction across disciplines—especially in public health, housing, environmental science, education, and equity.
SAGE Premier Journal Collection provides access to over 1 million articles published in 1,000 international, peer-reviewed journals. Subscription to the collection includes complimentary access to archives back to 1999, where available, and content ownership of resources published during the agreement.
Social Explorer database contains the entire U.S. census history as well as numerous other demographic and environmental study reports, as well as mapping tools. The website seamlessly integrates spatial and numeric data through an easy-to-use interface and makes working with socio-demographic data simple even for a novice user.
The online edition of The Economist or Economist.com, provides insight and opinions on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology.
The Washington Post delivers comprehensive, real-time news coverage and is renowned for its award-winning investigative journalism. An academic group subscription offers unlimited access to students, faculty, and staff on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
Learn more about an Academic Group Subscription: https://subscription.washingtonpost.com/enterprise
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is an extensive online, subscription database of over 10,000 hours of full-text and video interviews with African-Americans distinguished in the fields of science, culture, politics, the arts, and public life.
Part of the World Newspaper Archive, created by CRL in partnership with Readex, Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 & 2 (1805-1922) provides access to key historical newspapers published in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1805 and 1922. Coverage features significant titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere.