Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP) - Core Online Collections

This nation-wide research library initiative was undertaken to provide the academic community with desktop access to scholarly journals and research databases, emphasizing science, health, engineering and environmental content. Initially a three-year pilot project (2001-2004), CNSLP was jointly funded through an award from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and contributions from 64 participating institutions of which Concordia is one.

In 2004, CNSLP became the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), an incorporated not-for-profit partnership of Canadian universities dedicated to expanding access to scholarly research in digital formats.

The Core Online Collections, first negotiated in 2001, include:

• ScienceDirect - Elsevier
  The ScienceDirect collection includes most Elsevier ScienceDirect journals - exclusions are those titles identified with the white icon indicating "non-subscribed" as well as third-party publisher journals from 1995 onward. In addition, there are extensive backfiles for journals in some subjects.  ScienceDirect also includes the approximately 200 online journals formerly available via Academic Press/IDEAL.
• Web of Science (Institute for Scientific Information - ISI)
  Offers Web access to the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1989 onward.
• American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journals
  Access to all ACS Web editions and to most RSC electronic journals.
• Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals
  The complete collection of 48 IOP journals is available and searchable.
• SpringerLink - Springer-Verlag Journals
  The CNSLP agreement provides access to over 1,300 full text Springer-Verlag journals, covering disciplines in science, technology, health, engineering, environment, economics and law.
• MathSciNet - American Mathematical Society
  A database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information of the mathematical sciences literature.

Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) - SSH & STM Content Expansion

In 2005, CRKN launched a major content expansion project with the goals to secure a critical mass of social sciences and humanities (SSH) scholarly content in digital formats, and to add incrementally to the science/technology/medical (STM) scholarly content already available through CRKN. As a result of this initiative, Concordia Libraries purchased/subscribed to these resources:

• Alexander Street Press Core Collections
  Access to 14 full text collections in History, Literature, Theatre and the Classical Music Library.
• ARTstor Digital Library
  Searchable database of more than 500,000 digital images and associated catalog data. ARTstor is a non-profit initiative founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
• Early Canadiana Online (ECO)
  Access to almost 14,000 digitized volumes comprising over 2 million pages of Canada's printed heritage.
• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
  Full-text reports and statistics for 200 countries and regions.
• Globe & Mail Canada's Heritage From 1844
  Full-text archive of the Globe from 1844 to the Globe and Mail in December 2003.
• SAGE Full-Text Collection
  Comprehensive offering of SAGE journal titles.
• Wiley Interscience Electronic Journals
  Full-text of over 500 scientific, technical, medical and professional journals.

Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) - Second Round of SSH Expansion

In 2006, CRKN undertook a second content expansion specifically in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) domains. As a result of this new project, Concordia Libraries have purchased/subscribed to the following resources:

• Oxford Journals Online
  Full-text of almost 200 Oxford University Press journals.
• Blackwell-Synergy Journals and Digitized Archives
  This collection contains one million articles from over 950 journals published by Blackwell Publishing in all subjects.  Online access to backfiles is included for about 500 titles.
• Cambridge Journals Online
  Full-text coverage of almost 250 electronic journals published by Cambridge University Press (CUP).
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) 
  Full text of the British parliamentary papers published since 1801.
• Taylor & Francis Journals Online
  The complete collection of about 1,200 electronic journal titles from the Taylor & Francis Group. Includes both the SSH (Social Sciences & Humanities) and the STM (Scientific, Technical & Medical) collections.
• Times Digital Archive (1785-1985) (Thomson-Gale)
  Full-image online archive of The Times [London] from 1785-1985.

Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) - Digital Content Initiative (DCI) for the Human and Social Sciences Project

Thanks to a joint $47 million investment by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), eight provinces and 67 universities, researchers, scholars and students in Canadian universities have desktop access to a rich digital collection of scholarly content, ranging from books, letters and historical documents to music scores, maps, artworks and visual materials.

In 2008, CRKN secured national purchase and license agreements with international and Canadian scholarly publishers for 14 products to provide access to thousands of electronic journals, e-books, primary source collections and multimedia resources.

These include:

• JSTOR journal collections
  CRKN has licensed all eight existing JSTOR collections of journal archives.
• Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
  Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive of 500 titles dating from 1802 to 1995, in the humanities and social sciences.
• Adam Matthew Digital Collections
  Eight digital text collections including: China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980; Defining Gender, 1450-1910 Online; Eighteenth Century Journals I and Eighteenth Century Journals II; Empire Online; Mass Observation Online; Medieval Travel Writing; and Slavery Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007.
• CAIRN
  A collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities, currently comprised of 156 titles from more than 40 publishers, teaching institutions and learned societies, beginning with issues from 2001 to the present.
• Érudit
  Érudit currently distributes 57 Canadian scholarly journals, mainly published in French, with a few bilingual and English titles.
• Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street Press)
  A collection of classical music scores and manuscripts.
• Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press)
  Contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with video documentaries and online streaming video.
• InteLex Past Masters
  Contains complete corpora of seminal thinkers, such as Descartes and Wittgenstein, in both original language and in English translation.
• Canadian Publishers Collection (CPC)
  A collection of more than 8,000 English and French e-books from 44 Canadian university presses and publishers.
• ALPSP Learned Journals Collection
  Published by members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) through Swets. The collection contains 696 journal by 52 publishers.
• Cambridge University Press e-books
  A collection of 2431 e-books published between 1995 and 2007, with a further 333 titles to come in the next 3 years; available on the myilibrary platform, with perpetual access rights.
• Oxford University Press e-books
  A collection of 5038 e-books published between 1948 and 2008, with a further 333 titles to come in the following 3 years; available on the myilibrary platform, with perpetual access rights.
• Taylor and Francis e-books
  A collection of 11,697 e-books, with a further 333 to come in the following 3 years; available on the myilibrary platform, with perpetual access rights.