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CSPC Activates International Collections and Content Group
27 Aug 2020

The standing working group reporting to CSPC will play a substantive role in shaping, implementing, and maintaining CRL’s approaches to international collection management.

Purchase Proposal Nominations Deadline: September 30th
11 Aug 2020

This is a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit nominations for the FY21 Purchase Proposal Program is September 30, 2020. This program is one of the ways our research library community collectively builds, stewards, and shares materials to support inspired research and teaching. 

CRL Negotiates Extraordinary Access to East View Newspaper Archives
31 Jul 2020

As a research Library, CRL shares its members’ strong interest in access to contemporary news content to support research and teaching without geographic or linguistic limits.

MARC Records Available for First Global Press Archive Collection
10 Jun 2020

Twenty-two MARC records are now available for the Late Qing and Republican-era Chinese newspapers, the first Open Access module from the Global Press Archive collection.

CRL Negotiates Extraordinary Access to Gale Primary Sources
9 Apr 2020

CRL negotiates extraordinary access to archival and special collections content from Gale Primary Sources to assist students, faculty, and staff at CRL member institutions working remotely in response to COVID-19. CRL members have unlimited access to a number of archives and customized webinars in Gale Primary Sources from now until June 30, 2020.

CRL Partners with EBSCO to Expand Access
6 Apr 2020

CRL has arranged for its members to gain access to EBSCO collections for the remainder of the academic year.

CRL Reduces Access Barriers to Nearly 10,000 Digitized Titles
3 Apr 2020

CRL has reduced access barriers to nearly 10,000 titles previously digitized (in whole or in part) through on-demand and strategic scanning.

CRL Digital Resources for Those Working Remotely
16 Mar 2020

CRL has numerous online resources available to researchers and scholars working remotely.

CRL Libraries Vote to Purchase Six New Collections
15 Jan 2020

CRL voting member libraries have approved the acquisition of six collective collections with an estimated list price value of $121,624. Once acquired, the collections will be owned collectively by the CRL community.

CRL and East View Release Second Open Access Collection
13 Jan 2020

The CRL/East View Global Press Archive Charter Alliance will make 500,000 pages of unique and rarely-held titles from the Middle East and North Africa accessible for research opportunities.

Purchase Proposal Voting Open Through December 2nd
20 Nov 2019

The deadline for voting on the FY2020 Purchase Proposal Program has been extended through Monday, December 2.

CRL and Open Access
25 Oct 2019

CRL salutes International Open Access Week by recognizing a history of commitment to making primary sources collections openly accessible.

CRL and JSTOR Partner to Make South Asian Materials Openly Available Online
16 Oct 2019

CRL announces a partnership making collections of historical source materials from the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) openly available on JSTOR at saoa.crl.edu.

CRL Alliance with East View Yields First Global Press Archive Collection
23 Sep 2019

Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers has been released as the first Open Access collection coming out of the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Charter Alliance, a multi-year, flagship collaboration between CRL and East View Information Services. The collection, ultimately comprising 500,000 pages from hundreds of titles published in China between 1912 and 1949, is hosted on East View’s GPA platform.

Purchase Proposal Nominations Deadline: September 30th
26 Aug 2019

CRL invites representatives of CRL voting member libraries to nominate and vote for collections through the Purchase Proposal Program. The deadline is September 30, 2019.

Project CERES Funds Eight Projects for 2019-2020
21 Aug 2019

Project Ceres—a collaboration between USAIN, AgNIC, and CRL—funds eight digitization projects for 2019-2020.

LLMC Online Viewer Recently Enhanced
19 Apr 2019

CRL's partner LLMC recently implemented a new viewer to support intuitive browsing and navigation at the document level.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Princeton University Support Shared CRL Purchases
3 Apr 2019

Thanks to support from two member libraries, CRL will acquire two collections through its 2019 Shared Purchase Program.

Indonesian newspapers preserved by SEAM
2 Apr 2019

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) recently preserved several newspapers from Indonesia.

Gujarati Women's Journals Digitized by SAMP
29 Mar 2019

SAMP has digitized two rare and valuable Gujarati women's journals: Strī bodh (issues from 1858-1941) and Sundarī subodha (issues from 1904-1923).