CRL Research Guides

The following subject guides from CRL help to identify specific research collections available through the CRL lending service.

African Studies (Opens in new window)  Though most of these resources are in print or on microfilm and will need to be requested through interlibrary loan, the historical African newpapers are available online.

Black Studies(Opens in new window)

China(Opens in new window)

Eastern Europe(Opens in new window) 

Middle Eastern Studies(Opens in new window)

Russia and the Former Soviet Republics(Opens in new window)  

Science and Technology(Opens in new window)

South Asian Studies(Opens in new window)  Though most of these resources are in print or on microfilm and will need to be requested through interlibrary loan, the historical South Asian newspapers are available online.

Southeast Asian Studies(Opens in new window) 

United States History(Opens in new window)

About the Collections

CRL collections comprise over 4.5 million publications, 1 million of them digital, in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  Included are:

  • Over 800,000 foreign dissertations
  • 4,500 US newspapers.  These include many dating back to the colonial period and approximately 2,000 ethnic titles.
  • Over 6,000 international newspapers, many dating back to the 1700s.
  • Major paper and microfilm area studies collections from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
  • Over 300,000 books covering the history of science, medicine, and technology
  • Over 50,000 engineering and technology journals from Linda Hall
  • Hundreds of digital collections of documents, images, maps and statistics