Center for Research Libraries (CRL)The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university libraries. CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars the primary source material critical to those disciplines. For researchers at member institutions CRL functions as an auxiliary library of extraordinary resources with user-focused policies and practices, including:
• Unlimited access to CRL’s corpus of over five million items
• Project-length loan privileges
• Third-day delivery on the vast majority of interlibrary loans
• Demand Purchase Program ~ Enables patrons to request purchases up to $2,000 annually in three areas: foreign dissertations, newspapers, and archival material.
CRL collections are diverse and highly developed, including:
Largest collection of circulating newspapers in North America
~ 6,500 international newspapers
~ 2,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era.
More than 38,000 foreign journals that are rarely held in U.S. libraries.
More than 800,000 foreign dissertations—mostly from European institutions.
Area Studies ~ Major microform and paper collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, and more.
In-depth holdings that support research in history of science, economics, government, immigration and population studies, international diplomacy, cultural studies, and more.