Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

Duke University Libraries is a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). As a member institution, Duke University faculty, students and staff are eligible to borrow CRL resources through extended Interlibrary Loan or electronic delivery.  Duke University affiliates are eligible to benefit from the following CRL member services:

1. Search & Request CRL Titles
2. Demand Purchase Program
3. Scholar's Access Program
4. Area Studies Program
5. Global Resources Network
6. E-CRL: Digital Collections
   

"CRL holds over four million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. Holdings include such diverse materials as 800,000 doctoral dissertations (including those of Albert Einstein, Dag Hammarskjold and other Nobel laureates), some of the earliest African-American newspapers and the 100,000-plus-page archive of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge security force. Emphasis is on materials produced outside the United States, and the Center has special strength in publications and archives from many developing nations."

Source:  CRL Web Site  

Search & Request CRL Titles

1. Search for resources in the CRL Catalog.
   
   
2. Request CRL titles via Interlibrary Loan.  
   
   
3. You can also browse titles in CRL Topic Guides to find resources by subject.

Note: Some CRL resources are not listed in their catalog. Contact your Subject Librarian for help identifying additional titles that may be useful in your research.




Demand Purchase Program

CRL can purchase certain resources on demand.  Purchases on Demand can typically be made for the following types of resources:

• Foreign Doctoral Dissertations from institutions in countries outside of the U.S. and Canada
• Newspapers for which CRL owns at least 1 day of a newspaper title
• Archival material from national governments, NGOs and other organizations and institutions
  

To initiate a CRL purchase on demand request please contact your Subject Librarian or refer to the CRL Demand Purchase web page for more information.

 

Scholar's Access Program

"CRL will offer the pilot Scholar's Access Program. In contrast to CRL's other collection programs, the Scholar's Access Program will provide access to material which may not be added to CRL's physical collection.

Examples of this program include:

• limited-term access to a database
• purchase of short-term newspaper subscription in either hard-copy or online format
  

Criteria:

• Minimum cost of $300
• Resource is not presently accessible through the member library
• Resources should be used to meet a specific research need
• Type of material is not limited to dissertations, archives or newspapers, but is opened to all types, serials, monographs, etc.
• The time period for access would fall in CRL's fiscal year in which the resource request was approved, July 1 through June 30"

Source:  CRL Scholar's Access Program

To initiate a CRL Scholar's Access request please contact the Subject Librarian in your research area.



Area Studies Program


Duke is a member of the CRL Area Studies Program, which "provides access to a pool of materials that are beyond the means of any individual area studies program to provide and that might not be available at all without preservation.

CRL administers and coordinates the activities of six area studies microform projects:


1. Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP)
2. Latin American Microform Project (LAMP)
3. Middle East Microform Project (MEMP)
4. Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP)
5. South Asia Microform Project (SAMP)
6. Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM)
   

Each project has its own governance, by-laws and fees. Each project selects material to preserve and collect according to its own guidelines."

Source:  CRL Area Studies Program 




Global Resources Network

Duke is a member of the CRL Global Resources Network (GRN), a voluntary and collaborative initiative of higher academic research institutions to expand and enhance access to international scholarly resources.  The library has supported the following GRN initiatives:

• Collaborative Initiative for French and North American Libraries (CIFNAL)
• German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP)
• Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP)




E-CRL: Digital Collections


Brazilian Government Documents
Executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire in 1889.
  
Chinese pamphlets: Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China
Chinese pamphlets, picture books and other propaganda issued during the early years of the People’s Republic of China between 1947 and 1954. Unlike the high-end, made-for-export propaganda held by many Western libraries, this is the “street literature” of the revolution: the comic books, leaflets and other ephemera distributed to the population of the provincial cities and villages.

Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)
The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia including books and journals, full-text dictionaries, bibliographies, images, maps, and statistical information from the colonial period through the present.

Dziennik Zwiazkowy
Established in 1908 by the Polish National Alliance, Dziennik Zwiazkowy continues to be published today as the Polish Daily News. This database includes the first ten years (1908-1917) of publication, which represent local, national and international issues of utmost concern to the Polish community of Chicago at that time.

Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848
Digital collection of pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848 held by Center for Research Libraries.
   
Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu
From the Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, a collection of 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu. The materials, in Arabic, provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies.

World Newspaper Archive
The World Newspaper Archive is a collaborative effort of CRL member institutions and Readex to preserve and provide persistent access to historical newspapers from around the globe. Access is available for all CRL member institutions.



   

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