Research Guides: Center for Research Libraries: Overview

CRL Resources

6,500 international newspapers, many dating to the 1700s--the largest collection of circulating newspapers in North America. Search their international newspapers collection.

4,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era, including 2,000 ethnic titles. Search the collection of US ethnic newspapers.

Foreign journals that are rarely held in U.S. libraries

More than 800,000 foreign dissertations.

A rapidly growing collection of over 1 million digital resources. View highlights of the digital collections.

Area Studies - Major microform and paper collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia and other world regions. See Collection Highlights and CRL's Topic Guides for more detail.

CRL Digital Collections, to support teaching and research at member libraries, scanned by request. CRL also negotiates favorable licensing terms and pricing for member libraries to commercial digital collections. See their CRL Licensing page for more information.

For a broad overview of CRL's collections, consult their Topic Guides, which identify numerous uncatalogued collections, many of which are large microform sets.

Help

For assistance locating CRL materials please contact your subject librarian by going to the Staff Directory and then search your subject (by showing filters).

Reference services are also available from the CRL.