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 Alexander Street Press is a publisher of award-winning, online collections for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our discipline focus extends across the social sciences and humanities, reaching into the sciences, offering full text, audio and video resources in subject specific collections or as a comprehensive video library.

Alexander Street Press, L.L.C. was founded in May 2000, with the goal of publishing large-scale digital collections of exceptional quality in the humanities and social sciences.

From the beginning, we've built products that contained quality in-copyright and previously unpublished material. We also index each database with our unique Semantic Indexing™, which allows scholars to search and analyze our materials as never before.

Today, Alexander Street Press publishes more than 80 collections totaling many millions of pages, audio tracks, videos, images, and playlists.

 

 

Open Access to Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume III

Alexander Street Press is offering open access for the month of October to our entire counseling and therapy portfolio, including, the just-launched Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume III, The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume I, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II, and Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works.
 
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Environmental Studies in Video

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Environmental Studies in Video is an online collection designed to address the needs of one of the fastest growing academic fields. The collection directly confronts the most compelling questions faced in contemporary society by bringing together seminal documentary films and powerful footage from diverse sources around the globe.

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Psychological Experiments Online

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Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia online resource that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, fostering deeper levels of understanding for students and scholars alike. The collection pairs 75 hours of audio and video recordings of the original experiments (when existent) with 40,000 pages of primary-source documents.

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Twentieth Century Religious Thought Volume I: Christianity

Twentieth Century Religious Thought is a multivolume, cross-searchable online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to key worldwide religious thinkers from the early 1900s until the turn of the 21st century. Volume I will grow to include 150,000 pages of scholarship from influential theologians in the Christian tradition.

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World Newsreels Online, 1929–1966

In December of 1941, cinema audiences around the world—from New York to Tokyo, Amsterdam to Paris—waited expectantly for news of Pearl Harbor. World War II Newsreels lets today’s students and historians see what those audiences saw and more, by delivering more than 500 hours of newsreel content instantly to any computer or mobile device.

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Global Business and Economics in Video

Global Business and Economics in Video will address the complex nature of the discipline by delivering 500 hours of real-life documentaries, interviews, and case studies focused on the human side of business and economics.

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Dental Education in Video

Dental Education in Video is a video encyclopedia of dentistry and dental technique, delivering instant online access to more than 300 high-definition videos featuring world-renowned clinicians and educators.

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Engineering Case Studies Online

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Engineering Case Studies Online is an authoritative collection of resources for the study of engineering. The collection will feature 250 hours of video and 50,000 pages of full text material chronicling the field’s most noteworthy successes and failures.

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Ethnographic Video Online

A comprehensive online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior and the largest, most affordable streaming video collection of its kind, Ethnographic Video Online will contain more than 750 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries.

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Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II

This second volume of the award-winning Ethnographic Video Online collection expands Alexander Street’s anthropology offerings by adding 500 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries, field recordings, and previously unpublished footage from renowned anthropological archives.

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Anthropology Online

Anthropology Online will bring together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over.

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Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle

Through a partnership with London-based Pickering & Chatto Publishers, the pre-eminent publisher of critical editions in the humanities and social sciences, Romanticism Redefined will bring together 120,000 pages of the Pickering & Chatto catalog online in one place.

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Black Women Writers

Black Women Writers presents 100,000 pages of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African Diaspora. Facing both sexism and racism, black women needed to create their own identities and movements.

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Black Short Fiction and Folklore

Black Short Fiction and Folklore brings together 50,000 pages and an estimated 8,000 works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present. The materials have been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors.

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Caribbean Literature

Caribbean Literature

This literary connection, combined with the tales of survival, exile, resistance, endurance, and emigration to other parts of the Americas, makes for a body of work that is essential for the study of the Caribbean and the Black Diaspora—and indeed central for our understanding of the New World.

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Latin American Women Writers

Latin American Women Writers

In Latin American Women Writers, Alexander Street Press presents an electronic collection of literature by Latin American women from the colonial period in the seventeenth century forward to the present. Literary works, along with memoirs and essays, comprise the 100,000 pages of works in their original language.

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Latino Literature

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction includes more than 100,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, novels, and more than 450 plays. Nearly all of the content is in copyright, and most of the other items are long out of print or have never before been published.

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Black Drama: Second Edition

Black Drama, now in its expanded second edition, contains the full text of more than 1,460 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 250 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor.

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Classical Scores Library: Volume II

Classical Scores Library: Volume II

The second volume of Alexander Street's critically acclaimed Classical Scores Library will bring together 200,000 pages when complete. It's the first online score collection for libraries that's composed mostly of in-copyright classical scores from major composers and editions.

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Classical Music in Video

Classical Music in Video will be the definitive online collection for the study of classical music in video format. It contains 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video—approximately 1,500 performances in all.

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Women and Social Movements, International

Backed by a global editorial board of 130 leading scholars, Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials drawn from more than 300 repositories. Assembled and cross-searchable for the first time, these resources illuminate vast areas of modern history.

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Social Theory

* Part of the DFG National License for authorized members

Social Theory is a new undertaking to provide comprehensive coverage of major social thinkers together with seminal texts from lesser figures. For many writers, the project represents the first availability of a major scholarly edition of their collected works. Extensive licensing allows readers to see both the original works and translations, searchable together in a single online collection for the first time.

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The Digital Karl Barth Library

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The collection features the entire corpus of Barth’s Gesamtausgabe. Published under the TVZ imprint, this definitive edition of Barth’s works in German currently comprises 42 volumes of theological writings, lectures, letters, sermons, and interviews.

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The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts

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A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the CPT will give researchers immediate, Web-based access to hundreds of often hard-to-find works, never before published in a single collection.

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The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

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Comprising hundreds of titles written during the 16th and 17th centuries, the DLCR will give researchers immediate, Web-based access to hundreds of hard-to-find works, including papal documents, synodal decrees, catechisms, confessors’ manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises, sacred drama, liturgical works, inquisitorial manuals, preaching guides, accounts of saints’ lives, and devotional works.

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music online

Music Online: Reference - Package

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The Music Online Reference package delivers all of the music content you need, from the world's best record labels and music publishers, together in one place.

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Music Online

The Music Online Listening package delivers all of the music content you need, from the world's
best record labels and music publishers, together in one place. The largest online collection of music recordings available anywhere. The most comprehensive collection of materials for the study of music, covering every time period, genre, cultural group, and geographic region. The highest quality content—the world's best record labels, artists, and recordings. The Music Online Listening package of 5 online collections provides unparalleled resources in the following genres:

  • Classical
  • Jazz
  • World
  • American
  • Popular

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May 28, 2013
Alexander Street Press has launched LGBT Thought and Culture, an online collection of key works and rare archival documents tracing the history of LGBT movement...
May 8, 2013
Illinois Library Consortium purchases streaming video resources for 124 members.
April 30, 2013
Filmakers Library Online: Volume II will feature 100 issue-based documentaries produced from 2009 to the present, adding colorful perspective to virtually any academic program.
February 26, 2013
Alexander Street Press (ASP) has the winners of its 52-collection giveaway. One qualified library was selected from the applicants of each state...

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