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Acclaimed Teachers TV Titles Added to Alexander Street’s Education in Video Collection

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February 9, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announces the addition of the complete catalog of United Kingdom-based Teachers TV to its Education in Video collection. This addition significantly increases the collection, adding more than 800 hours of best-practice, research-based and in-classroom education video, with no additional charge to customers.

Created by the United Kingdom’s Department of Education in 2008, Teachers TV produced concise instructional videos featuring engaging and practical in-classroom demonstrations and commentary from teachers, administrators and other educational experts. The government-funded Teachers TV Web site closed down due to budget cuts in April 2011 but is now available to an international audience through Education in Video. In addition to the fully searchable scrolling transcripts that will be added to the videos in the spring, the titles are viewable in full screen mode, cross-searchable with related videos, semantically indexed, and in a much higher streaming quality than previously available.

“We are so pleased to bring such high quality educational content to audiences beyond the United Kingdom,” said Elizabeth Robey, editor of Education in Video. “The potential for increased global collaboration and understanding in educational practices is greatly enhanced by the addition of these titles to our flagship education collection.”

More than 3,000 videos make up the Teachers TV catalog. Key topics covered include teaching global issues and citizenship, behavior issues, assessment, administration techniques, social issues, ICT (Information and Communications Technology), and special education.

The licensing agreement allows for open access to the taxpayer-funded content for all United Kingdom and Northern Ireland users, along with the unique Alexander Street features such as scrolling transcripts and full-screen functionality, at the open access portal http://edtv.alexanderstreet.com.

More information on Education in Video can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/education-video. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:

Audrey DeGregorio
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Alexander Street Press Releases Award Winning Film On Adults Living With Their Parents

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OCTOBER 25, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces today the addition of In My Parents’ Basement to their catalog of film titles.

Filmed over a nine-month period, In My Parents’ Basement provides a window into the lives of three adult children who have returned to their parents’ homes to live – Bob, 34, has lived with his parents for two years; Nancy, 42, moved back into her mother’s basement three months ago; and Denise, 26, lives in her parents’ basement with her husband, David.

Regardless of the circumstances that prompted each of the subjects to move back into their parents’ homes, it becomes clear that they are all constantly plagued by future dreams, past failures and the difficulty of moving on.

“This film sheds light on a situation that is becoming increasingly more common today than ever before,” said Linda Gottesman, Co-founder of Filmakers Library. “Unfortunately, the state of our economy today is forcing more adult children to live with their parents again – a challenging and frustrating experience at times. In My Parents’ Basement shows real examples of the mental and emotional strain that this can take on both children and parents, making it a great resource for future psychologists and social workers.”

In My Parents’ Basement received the Silver Award at the Houston International Film Festival in 2002.

In My Parents’ Basement is currently available for purchase on DVD. Later this month, this title will be available online in streaming video through Alexander Street’s Academic Video Store at http://academicvideostore.com, and as part of Alexander Street’s Filmakers Library Online collection.

A preview of this video can be found on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel. For more information on In My Parents’ Basement or to order the DVD, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/filmakers.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information for Filmakers Library Online by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our products are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. Learn more at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:
Audrey DeGregorio, Marketing Communications Associate
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 X116
adegregorio [at] astreetpress [dot] com

Alexander Street Press' The Sixties Collection Grows By Over 8,000 Pages

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OCTOBER 18, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announces the addition of over 8,000 new pages and more than 1,000 new sources to its popular collection, The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974.

The range of new materials added to The Sixties reflects the publisher’s commitment to providing affordable educational access to the highest quality primary-source content for scholarly research. For the first time, The Sixties contains materials from the Fred Hirsch Ephemera Collection at San Jose State University. Researchers will find among the fascinating items in this collection a “Free Angela Davis” protest pamphlet; a report on a community patrol set up to monitor abuse by police in low-income areas (published in the San Jose Peace Officers’ Association bulletin, The Vanguard), and a congressional district proposal to create an offshoot to the Democratic Party called the “Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.”

Fred Hirsch, a union activist and organizer, was a key player in 1960s civil rights activism and the materials from his collection are extremely valuable in the study of that time period. Among his many achievements, Hirsch wrote the first pamphlet exposing CIA machinations in the Latin American labor movement and participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer project to help register African American voters in Mississippi.

“The immediacy of these documents is spectacular,” said Julie Miller, editor of The Sixties. “The Hirsch collection provides a window into the passion of the people involved in activism in the 1960s. You can feel the palpable suspicion of law enforcement in narratives like The Vanguard report, and see the passion and power of activists through the layout of the Angela Davis pamphlet.”

Along with the Fred Hirsch materials, archival documents from the Wilcox Collection at the University of Kansas and from Stony Brook University have been added -- The Sixties now contains more than 89,000 pages and over 4,000 sources.

More information on The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/sixt.htm . Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information for VAST or any individual video collections by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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Two New Films Explore America’s Obsession with Oil in Time for Earth Day

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April 18, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of The Big Fix and Freedom to their catalog of film titles.

Available exclusively through Filmakers, both films are directed by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, directors of the Sundance award-winning documentary Fuel. The Big Fix explores the issues behind the Deepwater Horizon disaster, contextualizing the event and revealing the full narrative of how the disaster came to be. Freedom is a promising look at the future of fuel, outlining the technologies and policies that can help free society from repeating the past and facing the ills—including disasters like the Deepwater Horizon collapse—from the continued exploitation of fossil fuels.

By exposing the root causes of the oil spill and what really happened after the news cameras left the Gulf States, The Big Fix uncovers corruption and a cover up. Uncensored journalists, local people whose health suffered dramatically, and scientists describe the cataclysmic effects of the spill. The Big Fix was an Official Selection at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the 2011 New Orleans Film Festival, the Best of Fest – IDFA 2011, and numerous other regional film festivals.

The New York Times said, “The Big Fix is an enraged exposé of the crimes of Big Oil, specifically BP, which has been accused of negligence and of taking shortcuts that helped lead to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig off the Louisiana coast in April 2010. The film’s conspiratorial viewpoint makes sense and is probably accurate.”

There is widespread agreement that America needs to wean itself off oil yet, among alternative energy sources, the most common and accessible biofuel—ethanol—is a lightning rod of controversy. An anti-ethanol coalition made up of both big oil and hard-line environmentalists stokes the fire of that controversy. In Freedom, the Tickells set out to learn the truth about this home-grown fuel and explore how it fits into a solution to America’s oil fix.

Freedom offers an array of green solutions. We learn about advanced biofuels, plug-in hybrids, and other sustainable technologies that could fulfill our transportation needs and watch insightful and inspirational interviews from former NATO Commander Wesley Clark; former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; singer/songwriter Jason Mraz; international author Deepak Chopra; and actors Michelle Rodriguez, Amy Smart, and Ed Begley, Jr.

Freedom won Best Documentary and Best of Fest at the Brantford International Film Festival, 2011, and the Golden Ace Award at the 2011 Las Vegas Film Festival.

Both films are available for preorder on DVD at http://filmakers.com/ and will be available for online streaming on the Academic Video Store in May.

Previews of both films can be found here and here on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel.

To request review copies, please contact Jessica Kemp at jkemp [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Jessica Kemp

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“Balancing Act" Of Being Japanese In America Is Explored In New Release From Alexander Street Press

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NOVEMBER 01, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) — Today, Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of the award-winning film, Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice, to its catalog of titles.

This partially autobiographical film by Kyoko Gasha shows how the deep influences of Japanese culture clashed with her need for a unique identity. Gasha’s desire for choice in her life, rather than following what she and other Japanese women call “the way” in Japan, led her to move with her daughter to New York City in 2001.

Halfway through the film Gasha asks the question: “Was I the only one who felt this way?” She then introduces four women who, like her, moved to New York from Japan to find themselves and discovered that there is great value and beauty to being Japanese in America.

“With views from three generations of women, Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice digs deep into how cultures can clash on a very personal level,” said Andrea Traubner, Director of Filmakers Library. “It’s fascinating to see how the mothers of these women react to their moves and how life in Japan compares to life in America. Students of both Asian studies and sociology should not miss this film.”

Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice received the Audience Award at the 2010 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival and the 2010 Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York.

Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice is currently available for purchase on DVD. Later this month, this title will be available online in streaming video through Alexander Street’s Academic Video Store at http://academicvideostore.com, and as part of Alexander Street’s Filmakers Library Online collection.

A preview of this video can be found on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel. For more information on Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice or to order the DVD, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/filmakers.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information for Filmakers Library Online by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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New Release From FIlmakers Library Addresses A New Dilemma Created By Scientific Advances

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OCTOBER 11, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of In the End: A Medical Dilemma to its growing catalog of film titles.

The poignant film by Charlotte Roseby takes viewers into an intensive care unit to uncover a dilemma now faced by patients, their families and their doctors on whether to use new medical technology to prolong life, even when the chances of actually getting better are slim.

The modern-day shift from using advanced technologies only on younger patients to the increasingly common use on elderly patients coincides with the shift from doctors having the predominant say on the use of treatments to families and patients holding more decision power. The result is that families are frequently finding themselves in the odd position of wanting treatment for their loved one but struggling with the reality of having them in prolonged intensive care.

“I watched this film with a lump in my throat,” said Andrea Traubner, Director of Filmakers Library. “The film quietly brings you into the lives of families and of a compassionate intensive care specialist who are all struggling with the challenge of accepting death when acceptance is no longer the only option. Healthcare and psychology students alike will find this film instrumental in preparing for work with intensive care patients and their families.”

Not only does the film explore the families’ dilemma, but it also looks at the views of the doctors. Intensive care specialist, Dr. Charlie Corke, director of the intensive care unit the film visits, states that “the difficulty comes because we are able, quite often, to prevent death but not to restore health.”

In the End is currently available for purchase on DVD. Later this month, this title will be available online in streaming video through Alexander Street’s Academic Video Store at http://academicvideostore.com, and as part of Alexander Street’s Filmakers Library Online collection.

A preview of this video can be found on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel. For more information on In the End: A Medical Dilemma or to order the DVD, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/filmakers.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information for Filmakers Library Online by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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Alexander Street Press Launches Free Search Platform Integrating All Video Products

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OCTOBER 13, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Starting today, libraries with access to Alexander Street Press video collections can cross-search all of them in one place, with the new Academic Video Online platform. The new video cross-search tool is free to users of Alexander Street video.

“The new Academic Video Online cross-search will change the way people use academic video in teaching and learning,” said Eileen Lawrence, Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Academic Video Online integrates all the features within individual Alexander Street video collections—synchronized scrolling transcripts; tools to make clips and playlists; the ability to search a transcript while watching and to jump forward and backward to your search hits; permanent URLs for all videos, clips and playlists; and much more. Users also can now explore dozens of disciplines in a single search.

Alexander Street offers streaming video covering the performing arts, nursing, counseling therapy, business and economics, science, art and architecture, music, and other areas. There are more than 10,000 video titles within Academic Video Online right now, with videos continually added. By 2013, Academic Video Online will offer more than 22,000 titles.

“We’re building a virtual city of video,” said Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street. “We’re teaching a generation of visual learners who have declared video their format of choice, and Academic Video Online gives both educators and learners the tools to make the most of this medium.”

Libraries can buy or subscribe to individual video collections. They can subscribe to VAST, a package of 21 discipline collections, the best value. Or they can subscribe to streaming single titles through the Academic Video Store. Discipline collections, single titles, or the VAST package – or any combination – will all now be accessible and cross-searchable through the new, free Academic Video Online platform.

More information on Academic Video Online, VAST, or individual video collections can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/video.htm . Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information for VAST or any individual video collections by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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Join us at ALA Midwinter!

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RSVP to the Alexander Street Customer Appreciation Breakfast.

We're very excited to be hosting this Midwinter's Customer Appreciation Breakfast again this year in Dallas, TX.

This time, you’ll hear about new video collections in many more disciplines, the fast growth of VAST: Academic Video Online, new full-text collections in gay and lesbian studies, anthropology, twentieth-century religious writing, and more—and new technologies, including an unprecedented way for your users to interact with media. And our guest speaker is one of today’s most notable documentary filmmakers.

You’ve watched the public-television series Prohibition (last month), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (last year), The War (2007), andFrank Lloyd Wright (1998). You can quickly name the co-producer who’s in the spotlight—Ken Burns. Do you know the other—equally sharing the directing and producing credits?

Come to our ALA customer breakfast to meet and hear Lynn Novick, whom The New York Times called “A Steady Presence Out of the Limelight”. Several Ken Burns / Lynn Novick film series are in Alexander Street’s American History in Video. Ms. Novick is a Yale alumna who worked in research at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, at WNET public television in New York, and as associate producer for Bill Moyers, before joining up with Mr. Burns. We’re thrilled to have Ms. Novick as our guest speaker!

At the breakfast, you will also learn about:

Developments in VAST: Academic Video Online – our multidisciplinary streaming video product growing quickly to 20,000 titles.
A new technology that will radically change the way users interact with online information! We can’t tell you more now, but you’ll want to be here to find out.
A brand-new way for you to bring your own content to the Alexander Street platform.
Classical Scores Library: Volume II—live this month.
Anthropology Online—live this month, the highly anticipated full-text companion to Ethnographic Video Online.
Gay and Lesbian Thought and Culture—live in mid-2012.
The March of Time—live early in 2012, the landmark newsreel project (1930s – 1960s) that put Time magazine into theatres and on television.
New global newsreels going into World History in Video.
Classical Music in Video—live early 2012, bringing classical performances to Alexander Street’s video offerings.
...and more. Please join us!

Please e-mail us as marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com to request an invitation to the breakfast or roundtables.

Health Science Video Booms at Alexander Street with Two New Collections

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July 12, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA)—Alexander Street Press continues to grow its health sciences portfolio with the release of two streaming video collections, Rehabilitation Therapy in Video and The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy.

Rehabilitation Therapy in Video is a groundbreaking collection focused on the physical treatment of patients with congenital disorders, chronic health issues, and traumatic injuries. It includes more than 750 hours of streaming video. Students and faculty will receive an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with patients and putting theoretical concepts into practice.

Videos feature renowned occupational, physical, and speech therapists explaining the underlying anatomical and neurological issues in specific patient populations, while demonstrating effective techniques for their treatment. Topics include working with aging populations, brain injury, learning disabilities, pain management, speech impediments, and more.

Titles have been approved for educational use by key organizations such as the American Physical Therapy Association, the American Occupational Therapy Association, and many others. Content is regularly reviewed and updated to ensure accuracy and compliance with current standards.

With more than 1,000 hours of innovative content, The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy provides a window into the presentations, lectures, and workshops of today’s most celebrated psychology and counseling thought leaders. The collection includes presentations from influential researchers and clinicians including Donald Meichenbaum, John Gottman, Marsha Linehan, Deepak Chopra, Salvador Minuchin, Philip Zimbardo, Sue Johnson, Scott Miller, Russell Barkley, and Judith Beck.

Much of the content was filmed in the past year, and new videos are added regularly. This extensive anthology is indexed to provide users with instant, convenient access to highly focused materials that covers the latest in research methods, practices, and techniques across a broad base of subject matter.

“Our newest collections provide demonstrations of some highly nuanced techniques,” says Greg Urquhart, Vice President of Business Development at Alexander Street. “They offer a level of precision that can’t be found in any textbook and are essential for anyone studying disciplines related to rehabilitation therapy or counseling.”

Video clips from Rehabilitation Therapy in Video and The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy are available online. To request a free trial or price quote, e-mail sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:
Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
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Landmark Silent And Feature Film Databases Launch At Alexander Street Press

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(ALEXANDRIA, VA)—Alexander Street Press expands its visual arts offerings with the release of two streaming video collections, Silent Film Online and New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990‒Present.

Silent Film Online is carefully curated by Alexander Street’s editors and Video Advisory Board to include high-quality silent feature films, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. These films, which come from many of the industry’s most notable pioneers, provide primary source documentation of foundational techniques in filmmaking and serve as a powerful resource for the study of late nineteenth and early twentieth century history, culture, and attitudes.

Highlights from the collection include Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery (1903), F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), Harry A. Pollard’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927), and assorted works from filmmakers including D.W. Griffith, Georges Méliès, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Charles Chaplin, Luis Buñuel, Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Sjostrom, Erich von Stroheim, Carl T. Dreyer, and others.

The globally minded collection includes examples of the silent film movement from Germany, Britain, the Soviet Union, and France, and complements its feature films with a selection of related documentaries. Launching with three hundred streaming online titles, Silent Film Online will more than double in size before completion.

Nearly two hundred full-length feature films and fifty shorts were hand-selected to comprise New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990‒Present. The films, all of which appeared at major film festivals, have collectively won more than one thousand awards and come from leading industry distributors like Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative. Featured works include Oscar nominees like Yôji Yamada’s Twilight Samurai, Tran Anh Hung’s The Scent of Green Papaya, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth, as well as Cannes Grand Prize-winner The Piano Teacher, directed by Michael Haneke.

The titles represent sixty countries and forty languages, providing a window into a wide range of cultures and sociological issues across the globe. The collection highlights a variety of cinematographic techniques and features works by many of the world’s leading contemporary directors, including Andrei Zvyagintsev, Koji Wakamatsu, Wong Kar-Wai, and Jean-Luc Godard.

“While these collections provide valuable content for cinema studies, their scholarly applications extend well beyond that,” says Will Whalen, Vice President of Licensing at Alexander Street. “Extensive indexing means viewers can identify films by release year, cultural or political topic, or any key word, making relevant content easy to find for the study of sociology, linguistics, anthropology, and more.”

Both collections are currently for sale in North America. More information about Silent Film Online and New World Cinema, including a full list of film titles, is available online. To request a free trial or price quote, please e-mail 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 and video for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our products are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. Learn more at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:
Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

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