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Online Publisher Celebrates Women’s History Month with Free Access to Popular Online Collection of Primary Materials and Teaching Tools

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ALEXANDRIA, VA and BINGHAMTON, NY, March 3, 2010—In partnership with SUNY Binghamton's Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, Alexander Street today announced that one of their most popular online resources, Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition, will be freely accessible for the month of March so that all librarians, students, instructors, and scholars can explore the site’s rich collection of primary materials and teaching tools without passwords or fees. The URL is http://wass.alexanderstreet.com

Named a Best Reference Database of the year by Library Journal and an Outstanding Academic Title for the year by CHOICE Academic Reviews, Women and Social Movements has garnered numerous awards and wide recognition, and is one of the most heavily visited women's studies sites online. Ordinarily accessible only to faculty and students at subscribing colleges and universities, the collection includes primary materials such as diaries, letters, photographs, and pamphlets and makes them cross-searchable together with scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, and other important reference and secondary materials in what is the most comprehensive documentation of women's activism in public life to date. New content is added to the site semi-annually.

Edited by the project's creators, professors Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin of SUNY Binghamton, Women and Social Movements also boasts an editorial board of leading women's history scholars from across the U.S. At the heart of the collection are about one hundred document projects organized around interpretive questions that give context to the wealth of primary materials. Questions such as, “How did the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977 shape a feminist agenda for the future?” and “How did black and white southern women campaign to end lynching, 1890-1942?” serve as ready-made classroom tools and as models that teach students how to work with, interpret, and conduct research using primary sources. A free companion blog, Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion, serves as a community forum for women’s history scholars who discuss how they’ve made use of the resource in their courses, share syllabi, and exchange ideas.

Said Professor Sklar, “The open access period makes it possible for faculty and students at universities that haven’t been able to subscribe to the collection to get in and make use of these materials. When we announced a similar opportunity in 2006, tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world came to the site. Since then, the collection has grown to include thousands of additional primary documents, teaching tools, reviews, and other materials, including conference proceedings, biographies, and government documents.”

According to Alexander Street Vice President Eileen Lawrence who commented on the collection’s continued popularity since its launch in 2003, “Women and Social Movements remains one of the collections we are most proud to have published—it’s a must-have resource at every level, from two-year colleges to the largest research institutions and the most specialized graduate programs. That’s in large part thanks to the efforts of Kathryn Kish Sklar and Tom Dublin who have created not only an invaluable teaching and research tool, but a vibrant community of history scholarship that revolves around this collection.”

To access Women and Social Movements, visit http://wass.alexanderstreet.com before April 1, 2010.

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities and social sciences. Since its beginnings in 2000, Alexander Street has developed a reputation for uniquely powerful search capabilities powered by Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ and for offering content not available anywhere else. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions via annual subscription or outright purchase of perpetual rights.

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a username and password.

Learn more about Women and Social Movements at http://wass.alexanderstreet.com

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Music Online Streaming Service for Libraries, Schools, and Universities to Triple in Size

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Alexandria, VA, March 3, 2010—Electronic publisher Alexander Street today announced that its suite of Music Online streaming audio collections will triple in size over the next nine months, growing from a current total of more than 250,000 recordings to more than 750,000 by year-end. In 2011, Alexander Street’s plan is for Music Online to hit the milestone of one million recordings.

Said Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “In these economic times we’re all being asked to deliver more with less. Last year our music collections almost doubled in size without a price increase. This year, we’re aiming to triple the size and still not increase prices! We’re also continuing to offer the highest quality—with a large increase in tracks from EMI and new content from Decca and Deutsche Grammophon.”

Individual streaming collections in Alexander Street’s Music Online suite that will double or triple in size include Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, American Song, and Contemporary World Music. Libraries that subscribe to the entire suite of Music Online listening collections will have access to an additional 140,000 popular music recordings. The publisher also announced that recording stream quality will improve to 320kbps, and that soon, listening collections will be accessible via handheld mobile devices. None of these enhancements will result in a price increase.

New, lower price points are available for Jazz Music Library, American Song, and Contemporary World Music, and all new subscriptions to these collections will come with unlimited access. Any library subscribing to two or more Alexander Street music collections will also have free access to the Music Online cross-search, which lets patrons access all of their library’s Alexander Street music collections from a single interface—pulling up a Mozart recording from Classical Music Library, for example, together with the printable score from Classical Scores Library, and a biography from Classical Music Reference Library.

Thirty-day trial access is available for libraries and teaching faculty. Libraries interested in trial access or a price quote for the publisher’s new offerings should email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or visit the Web site at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and music. Alexander Street’s Music Online is a fully cross-searchable suite of hundreds of thousands of classical, jazz, American, and world music recordings; scores; and pages of full-text reference content. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions via annual subscription or, in some cases, outright purchase of perpetual rights. Not all recordings are available in all geographic territories.

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request trial access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a username and password.

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Alexander Street Announces Free Access to American History in Video through April

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, March 31, 2010—Electronic publisher of educational and library reference resources Alexander Street Press today announced that one of its most popular online streaming video collections, American History in Video, will be freely accessible through the month of April at the URL http://www.alexanderstreet.com/UShistory.htm

The collection, which was named both a 2009 Booklist Editor’s Choice selection and a 2009 Library Journal Best Reference, gives patrons at subscribing libraries access to a current total of more than 4,000 complete newsreels and documentaries from leading video providers, including PBS, The History Channel®, Bullfrog Films, California Newsreel, Media Rich Learning, and Documentary Educational Resources, among others. It will grow to include more than 5,000 video titles totaling more than 2,000 hours of footage.

Says Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “American History in Video lets students and scholars experience and study history in ways that simply weren’t possible before. Watching as U.S. troops rush ashore at Normandy on D-Day is a powerful experience. Now you can quickly pinpoint and watch multiple instances of that footage alongside synchronized transcripts—in PBS and AETN documentaries, in government and corporate-sponsored newsreels and other films—and then make clips and playlists of just the segments you want to go back to, put into course folders, or share, making the collection extraordinarily useful both for research and teaching.”

Unique to the collection are the complete series of both United News and Universal Newsreel—content that is currently available in-full nowhere else online—and for rare, archival footage such as that from the Longines Chronoscope series. Also unique is the collection’s rich functionality for teaching and research.

Powerful search and browse capabilities are driven by Alexander Street’s trademarked Semantic Indexing, which uses extensive controlled vocabularies and more than 15 combinable search fields to help users find and analyze content. Search fields include historical event, era, date, place, historical figure, speaker, subject, video type, and years discussed. Users can quickly compare, for example, Kennedy’s rhetorical flair with Nixon’s, or find all on-film occurrences of civil disobedience in the southern United States prior to 1968, or all footage of Depression-era soup lines. Users can also tap the expertise of others by searching shared clips and playlists within a secure environment.

Technical features built into American History in Video include synchronized, searchable transcripts for every minute of footage; visual tables of contents that let the user quickly scan the content of each video; clip-making and sharing tools; permanent URLs that let users cite and share video of any length down to a second; an embeddable video player that lets libraries and instructors deliver video content to other users on secure Web site pages or via classroom sites; and playlists that let users organize clips and include links to any content (video or text) anywhere on the Web.

Says Rhind-Tutt, “This is the most ambitious video collection we’ve undertaken and the largest of its kind. As it grows, it will become even more powerful and useful for libraries and their patrons. American History in Video is a visual encyclopedia of American history, it’s a tremendous biographical resource, and it will give students, in particular, a visceral experience of history as it was lived.”

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections for education and research in the humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and music. Since its beginnings in 2000, Alexander Street has developed a reputation for uniquely powerful search capabilities powered by Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ and for offering content not available anywhere else. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions via annual subscription or outright purchase.

American History in Video can be accessed online through April 30th at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/UShistory.htm

After the open access period has ended, anyone may browse the collection for free, but accessing search or browse results will require authorization. Libraries or faculty needing trial access after the open access period may email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)

Learn more about American History in Video at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/ahiv.htm

Reviewers and media contacts may request extended access to the collection by emailing mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 x116.

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Library Journal Names Two Alexander Street Collections 2009 Best References

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, April 15, 2010—Today Library Journal, the leading trade weekly for libraries, released their annual Best Reference list for 2009. Among the ten online resources identified as top reference titles are two Alexander Street streaming video collections, American History in Video and Counseling and Therapy in Video.

Currently containing more than 4,000 complete newsreels, documentaries, and archival films, American History in Video is quickly growing to include more than 5,000 videos and 2,000 hours of footage from leading video providers. Says Library Journal reviewer Cheryl LaGuardia, “Based on content, design, and price, this product is a solid ten. It tops any other similarly themed resource in its field and, at this price, is an amazing deal. . . . This is a product I wish every library in the United States could make accessible to its researchers, from elementary-school children to history scholars, and everybody in between."

In her review of Counseling and Therapy in Video, Alexander Street’s online collection of videos for training in the helping professions, Cheryl LaGuardia says, "The content here is astonishingly deep, broad, and expert, as well as unique, and you are not going to find anything even remotely similar online that covers counseling and therapy in this way. The quality of the featured videos is excellent; the redundancies between browsing and searching make it quite certain that you will find what you're looking for quickly. The design is deceptively simple (in a good way) and when combined with all the aforesaid elements makes for a highly effective tool." Counseling and Therapy in Video currently contains over 300 hours of streaming video and will grow to a total of more than 400 hours of titles from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Inc., Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry.

"We’re very pleased about the announcement and by the warm response to our streaming video collections in general," says Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President of Alexander Street Press. "It’s gratifying to see these resources embraced by libraries as must-have resources for research and teaching.”

Both American History in Video and Counseling and Therapy in Video feature synchronized scrolling transcripts alongside every video; visual tables of contents that allow video content to be quickly scanned; video clip and playlist creation tools; permanent URLs for linking and sharing content; and an embeddable player that can be used to deliver video content via course management systems and Web sites. Powerful search and browse capabilities are driven by Alexander Street’s trademarked Semantic Indexing, which uses extensive controlled vocabularies and multiple combinable search fields to help users find and analyze content.

American History in Video was also named a 2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice selection for Best Reference. Library Journal’s complete list of Best References for 2009 can be accessed at http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6725228.html.

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American History in Video can be accessed online through April 30th at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/UShistory.htm

Learn more about American History in Video at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/ahiv.htm

Learn more about Counseling and Therapy in Video at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/ctiv.htm

Reviewers and media contacts may request extended access to the collection by emailing mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 x116.

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

New Resource Gives Faculty, Students Access to Hundreds of Documentaries Online in Streaming Video

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, April 20, 2010—Electronic publisher Alexander Street today announced the launch of a new online collection of streaming videos designed to meet the needs of instructors and researchers in anthropology, documentary film, and across the social sciences curriculum. Faculty advisors have described the project as “a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture.”

Available by subscription or one-time purchase to libraries worldwide, Ethnographic Video Online currently includes hundreds of the classic and contemporary documentaries most frequently used in anthropology, ethnography, and other social science programs together with related full-text materials and teaching tools, including previously inaccessible field notes. Soon, the collection will also include hundreds of hours of previously unpublished video footage from working ethnographers in the field. Over the next two years, Ethnographic Video Online will grow to include more than 1,000 complete video titles totaling more than 750 hours.

Documentary classics in the collection include works by world-famous names such as Edward Curtis, Robert Flaherty, John Marshall, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, and Napoleon Chagnon. Contemporary films in the collection are from leading video producers including Documentary Educational Resources and feature virtually every geographic region and culture.

Says Alexander Street anthropology editor, Will Whalen, “Visual anthropologists have been talking about the potential value of a cross-searchable visual archive like this since the 1970’s. This is the first time it’s been done in a way that makes the films widely accessible online and useful for both specialists and students.”

As with the other collections in Alexander Street’s series of Critical Video Editions, Ethnographic Video Online features synchronized, scrolling transcripts that run alongside each video, allowing the user to click and jump forward to any point in the transcript. Every word of every film is transcribed and cross-searchable, and the collection is Semantically Indexed, making it possible to quickly identify and access relevant footage by theme, cultural group, geographic region, date of filming, type of behavior, filmmaker, language, and much more. Clip-making tools and playlist functionality make it easy to organize content for course use and for researchers to cite specific moments of footage. Faculty can stream films in the classroom in “full screen” view or assign them for remote-access viewing. Research and teaching will benefit from cross-cultural comparisons—of gender roles or kinship ceremonies, for example. The collection can also be used to analyze the impact of classic works on the style and techniques of modern documentaries. Says Whalen, who notes the collection’s popularity among film schools, “Ethnographic films were among the earliest documentaries made, so the history of ethnographic film is also the history of the documentary itself.”

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Teaching faculty and library staff interested in trial access or a price quote for Ethnographic Video Online should email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a username and password.

To learn more, visit the Alexander Street Web site at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/anth.htm

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Alexander Street Launches New Blog, “Music Media Monthly”

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, May 12, 2010—Alexander Street today announced the launch of a new music blog, Music Media Monthly, “a guide to the best recent (and sometimes not-so-recent) sound recordings, music-related books, videos, and Web sites.” Online at www.musicmediamonthly.com, the blog is designed to be a resource for music and media librarians, music students and teaching faculty, and music lovers.

Sponsored by Music Online publisher Alexander Street and updated monthly, the blog is independently edited by Rick Anderson who is Associate Director for Scholarly Resources and Collections at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library; founder and editor of CD HotList: New Releases for Libraries; and the former editor of the “Sound Recording Reviews” column for Notes, the quarterly journal of the Music Library Association. Anderson will write Music Media Monthly’s introductory note for each issue, as well as the Recordings column, which will cover significant new releases and reissues (both CDs and downloads), along with recommendations for related backlist titles.

Co-bloggers on the site include composer, music columnist and critic Steve Dankner, who will head up the site’s Books column, which will cover significant and upcoming music-related titles, reprints, and new editions from both leading trade publishers and scholarly presses.

Anne Shelley, an assistant librarian at the University of Minnesota and the editor of the Digital Media Reviews column for Notes, will write the Videos column for Music Media Monthly, focusing on new releases as well as remasterings, reissues, and old titles being released in new formats.

Veteran music writer Gene Hyde, who also writes for CD Hotlist and was previously curator of the John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection at Lyon College, will head up the Web Sites column, looking at important new Web resources as well as lesser known sites that deserve to be more widely read. He will also identify sites with interesting free streaming, sample, or download offerings and cover news about changes or important new content on existing music Web sites.

Says Anderson, “This is a challenging but also an exciting time in music publishing—formats and delivery options are changing rapidly, and it’s hard to keep up with all of it. On the other hand, there have never been as many outlets and options for music content as there are today. This blog will fill a real need, I think, by focusing on music media—the best music content, regardless of format or delivery option.”

“In the blog’s inaugural issue,” says Anderson, “you’ll find discussion of a new book on Phish and a new-ish book on Gladys Knight & the Supremes; an in-depth review of a Web site that archives the content of the gone and much-lamented No Depression magazine; a video documentary on Joan Baez; a John McLaughlin concert DVD; and new CD releases in a wide variety of genres.”

Alexander Street Music Online editor Liz Dutton pointed out the alignment of the blog’s approach to that of Alexander Street’s Music Online. “Our goal is to deliver the best music content—recordings, scores, full-text reference, and video—regardless of format, and to make it as accessible and as cross-searchable as possible.” Emphasizing the blog’s editorial independence, Dutton said, “We’re excited to be sponsoring this well-crafted approach to music coverage—so watch this space!”

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Alexander Street Launches First Online Scholarly Resource Devoted to Underground and Independent Comics

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, May 28, 2010—Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the latest release from electronic publisher Alexander Street and the first ever scholarly, primary source resource to offer online access to independent adult comic books, graphic novels, and relevant critical works.

Available for subscription or one-time purchase to libraries and academic institutions, Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels will grow to include more than 75,000 pages of original material from the 1950s to today together with more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from leading journals (including The Comics Journal), magazines, and books (including the book that led to one of the largest censorship programs in U.S. history, The Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Frederick Wertham). Also included in the collection are the complete transcripts of the senate subcommittee that birthed the Comics Code Authority and, inadvertently, the underground comix movement.

Well-known artists whose work is included in the collection include Basil Wolverton, Harvey Kurtzman, Dan Clowes, Gilbert Shelton, Harvey Pekar, Spain Rodriguez, Vaughn Bode, Peter Bagge, Kim Deitch, Dave Sim, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, and Skip Williamson.

Says Alexander Street editor Greg Urquhart, “Comics are becoming an increasingly popular area of academic study, but with a few notable exceptions, most libraries have limited resources in this area. This collection solves that problem, and includes a lot of important but rare and hard-to-find works that would otherwise be inaccessible.”

Advisors and partners to the project include “Comixology” columnist Karen Green of Columbia University; Denis Kitchen of Kitchen Sink Press; Jim Danky, director of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Gary Groth, founder and president of the renowned alternative comics publisher Fantagraphics Books.

To learn more, please visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/comx.htm. Interested libraries and faculty may request trial access or pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and music. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions via annual subscription or outright purchase of perpetual rights. For more information, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com or contact Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels can be accessed online at http://comx.alexanderstreet.com. Anyone may browse this collection for free. Document-level access requires authentication. Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request immediate access to the collection by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 202-641-7819 for a username and password.

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Alexander Street to Launch Three New Streaming Video Collections in Next Six Months

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, June 4, 2010—Electronic publisher Alexander Street today announced that it will launch three new streaming video collections before the end of 2010. The three new releases—World History in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II, and Education in Video—join the company’s growing suite of streaming resources for the library and education markets.

Like the six other Alexander Street streaming video products currently available in American history, anthropology, counseling, dance, opera, and theatre, each of the three new collections is designed to meet the teaching and research needs of a specific discipline. Says Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “Our editors select and license the most important video content in each field from the top video providers. These are the films most often used in university courses—together with innovative, new content and rare or previously unpublished films that can support scholarship. Controlled vocabularies tailored to each discipline and innovative technical features make these collections powerfully searchable and even more useful as teaching and research tools.”

Each Alexander Street video collection will include between 1,000 and 5,000 complete video titles, and video publishing partners include PBS, the BBC, Documentary Educational Resources, Insight Media, The History Channel®, and dozens of other leading video providers. Technical features include synchronized, scrolling transcripts that run alongside each video as well as clip-making tools and playlists that let users pull together selections from multiple videos (and from anywhere on the Web) and then annotate and share them. In late June, the publisher will roll out mobile access to its video content, giving patrons platform-neutral, on-the-go access via most handheld devices. A single interface for cross-searching all Alexander Street video products is planned for 2011.

Says Rhind-Tutt, “We get regular requests from libraries and faculty worldwide for new video collections they’d like to see us create, so there’s a lot of demand for these resources. It’s an exciting time—we’ve removed all of the physical barriers that have traditionally stood in the way of using video in the academy. We let you search, navigate, cite, annotate, and share video as easily as any other content—and you can do it from anywhere.”

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About the forthcoming video collections:

A global survey of human history from 8000 BCE to the late 1980s, World History in Video: English-Language Documentaries will include more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide.

Expanding on and complementing the 2009 release, Counseling and Therapy in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II will include 400 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. The collection will focus particularly on contemporary topics and therapeutic approaches.

Education in Video will include more than 1,000 videos designed to train and develop teachers. Covering a wide range of issues, including mathematics education, literacy development, motivation, assessment, learning disabilities, and multicultural education, the collection will include teaching demonstrations, documentaries, primary-source footage, study guides, and other classroom tools.

About Alexander Street Press:
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and music. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions via annual subscription or outright purchase. For more information or for media access to any of the Alexander Street streaming video collections, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com or contact Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Alexander Street Streaming Music Collections Go Mobile—Easy Access Options Include QR Codes

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, July 15, 2010—Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press has launched mobile access to its complete line of streaming music collections—including Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound^® for Libraries—making it possible for patrons at subscribing libraries to listen using internet-enabled smart phones and other mobile devices.

Says Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “Mobile access is steadily gaining ground, and soon it will be the preferred way to access many different kinds of content. Mobile access makes it possible for libraries to provide even greater value and ease of access to their patrons.”

The publisher’s mobile access options include QR codes, or two-dimensional barcodes (see image). QR readers are readily available as free or inexpensive add-on applications, and many mobile phones come with QR readers pre-installed. QR codes can be auto-generated for every recording, album, and playlist in Alexander Street’s streaming music collections—patrons simply scan the image with their mobile device and start streaming immediately. Says Rhind-Tutt, “The QR codes are also terrific promotion tools for libraries—as QR codes grow in popularity, they provide an easy, fun way to steer patrons directly into content they might not know about otherwise.” Users can also send Alexander Street recordings and playlists to their mobile device using automatic email or SMS text options, or by navigating directly to a mobile-friendly URL.

At present, Alexander Street supports mobile access for all Android and iPhone devices, including the iPod Touch and iPad. Later in 2010, the publisher plans to release streaming access to its nine video collections, including American History in Video, Dance in Video, and Ethnographic Video Online. To learn more, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and music. Music Online is Alexander Street’s fully cross-searchable suite of hundreds of thousands of classical, jazz, American, and world music recordings; scores; and pages of full-text reference content. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions via annual subscription or one-time purchase.

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a username and password.

Alexander Street to Give Away 50 One-Year Subscriptions to Online Collection American History in Video—One to a Library in Each State

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, June 15, 2009—Electronic publisher Alexander Street today announced that they will give away 50 one-year subscriptions to American History in Video, an online collection of newsreels and documentaries designed to meet the needs of American history instructors and researchers. Free subscriptions will be given to university, K-12, or public libraries in each of the 50 states in exchange for those libraries’ participation in Alexander Street’s 50-State Advisory Group.

To be considered for participation in the advisory group, libraries have to complete an online entry form on the publisher’s Web site no later than July 4, 2009—and agree to provide fifteen minutes of feedback at least three times during the year of the free subscription.

Says Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “The 50-State Giveaway is part of our response to the economic downturn—a way to support U.S. libraries during a particularly difficult period. It’s also a way for us to learn more about our customers and their patrons—to make sure we’re doing everything we can to support libraries long-term.”

Libraries selected to be part of the advisory group, Rhind-Tutt noted, will be given a lot of marketing support during the free year. And they’ll be asked to provide feedback. “We’re looking for solid, actionable knowledge about what works when libraries and publishers work together to drive usage.” Rhind-Tutt added that Alexander Street will publish the results of their effort in 2010 so that all libraries could benefit.

Advisory Group members will each be given a free, one-year subscription to American History in Video, a growing online collection containing thousands of titles. Videos in the collection include documentaries from leading providers including The History Channel®, PBS, California Newsreel, and Bullfrog Films; newsreels from United Newsreel and Universal News; and other public affairs and historical film footage, including, for example, the Longines Chronoscope series of kinescopes. The collection features a wide range of unique technical features that make the collection particularly useful for research and teaching, including synchronized, scrolling transcripts that run alongside each video; the ability to create clips and save them in playlists that can be annotated and shared institution-wide or with all users. Playlists can include content not only from American History in Video but from anywhere on the Web, making it easy for instructors to align playlists with their syllabi and course management systems.

To be considered, libraries should complete the entry form online at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/50states.htm by July 4.

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Staff or representatives of academic, public, and school libraries may apply to be on the Alexander Street 50-State Advisory Group by July 4, 2009 at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/50states.htm.

Learn more about American History in Video at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/ahiv.htm or by browsing the collection for free at http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com. Note that you will not be prompted for login credentials until you try to access search or browse results.

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request reviewer access to the collection by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a username and password.

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.212.8520 x 116
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)

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