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The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a centralized collection of scholarly research materials in all disciplines. CRL is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. CRL is governed by the major research libraries of North America and is funded by fees, grants and contributions. Its outstanding collections include more than 3.5 million volumes of research materials rarely held in North American libraries. CRL offers large collections of foreign dissertations, newspapers, and microfilm sets. Because the University Libraries have membership in CRL, University of Arkansas students, faculty, and staff may borrow these collections through Interlibrary Loan.

	Digital Collections Growing collections available online Chinese pamphlets from the early revolutionary period Slavery and manumission manuscripts of Timbuktu Brazilian government documents Pamphlets and periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) TRAIL: Technical Reports Archive and Image Library Foreign Dissertations comprehensive access to doctoral dissertations submitted to institutions outside the United States and Canada digitization on request demand purchase program for titles requested but not held by CRL search foreign dissertations Foreign Journals titles rarely held by North American libraries focus on foreign science and technology titles Foreign Newspapers International Newspapers the largest circulating collection of foreign newspapers in North America 6500+ newspapers from every region of the world from the 1700s to the present search newspapers database U.S. Newspapers colonial era to the present 2000+ ethnic titles 2500+ general circulating newspapers specialzed titles such as the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) newspapers from the New Deal Era browse U.S. ethnic newspapers Area Studies Projects Microform and paper collections from around the globe Regions covered: Latin America Sub-Saharan Africa Middle East South Asia Southeast Asia Slavic and Eastern Europe Types of publications: government reports statistical series special collections browse topic guides Repository Collections Major microform sets Monographs Pre-1951 U.S. State documents Pre-1996 foreign official gazettes International bank publications College and university catalogs Southeast Asian and South Asian microfiche monographs and serials U.S. primary and secondary textbooks Miscellaneous collections, e.g., Nuremberg records, railroad reports

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L'Annee Photographique 1900

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Digital Collections

Growing collections available online
Chinese pamphlets from the early revolutionary period
Slavery and manumission manuscripts of Timbuktu
Brazilian government documents
Pamphlets and periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848
Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)
TRAIL: Technical Reports Archive and Image Library

Foreign Dissertations

comprehensive access to doctoral dissertations submitted to institutions outside the United States and Canada
digitization on request
demand purchase program for titles requested but not held by CRL
search foreign dissertations

Foreign Journals

titles rarely held by North American libraries
focus on foreign science and technology titles

Foreign Newspapers

International Newspapers
the largest circulating collection of foreign newspapers in North America
6500+ newspapers from every region of the world
from the 1700s to the present
search newspapers database

U.S. Newspapers

colonial era to the present
2000+ ethnic titles
2500+ general circulating newspapers
specialzed titles such as the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
newspapers from the New Deal Era
browse U.S. ethnic newspapers

Area Studies Projects

Microform and paper collections from around the globe
Regions covered:
- Latin America
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Middle East
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Slavic and Eastern Europe
Types of publications:
- government reports
- statistical series
- special collections
browse topic guides

Repository Collections

Major microform sets
Monographs Pre-1951
U.S. State documents
Pre-1996 foreign official gazettes
International bank publications
College and university catalogs
Southeast Asian and South Asian microfiche monographs and serials
U.S. primary and secondary textbooks
Miscellaneous collections, e.g., Nuremberg records, railroad reports

Taschenbuch fur Forst und Jagdfreunde 1807

A good place to start is the CRL Catalog. The catalog now includes all dissertations as well as most newspaper titles. Or browse the CRL topic guides to find out more about collections available to you. A growing collection of online digital collections, including pamphlets from the French Revolution, materials from South Asia, and government documents from Brazil, is also available.

InfoLinks, the online catalog for the University of Arkansas Libraries, offers a link to the CRL catalog. When searching in InfoLinks, look for the Find More! button that will automatically redirect your search to the CRL catalog.

Note that not all CRL materials are listed in their online catalog. Your Subject Librarian can help you identify CRL materials that might be useful in your research. Interlibrary Loan can also query CRL for materials not found in online catalogs.

Use the Interlibrary Loan request form to submit requests. Contact your Subject Librarian or the Interlibrary Loan Department if you have questions about borrowing CRL materials.

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