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Alexander Street Announces Ten New Staff Positions

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AUG 24, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street announced plans to hire 10 new staff effective immediately.

Said company president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “We’ve seen a big increase in interest over the past year in our databases and in our video offerings in particular. We plan to more than double the size of our video collections in 2012, and we’re also launching new full-text online collections in anthropology, gay and lesbian studies, and in classical music. The new positions we’re recruiting for will help us do this. With existing vacancies this brings the total number of staff we’re looking to recruit to more than 15.”

The positions themselves cover a wide range of departments including editorial, software development, production, business development, finance, and sales. Five of the new positions will be based in Alexander Street’s Shanghai office, one in Australia, two in the UK, and the rest at the company’s headquarters in Alexandria, VA.

Interested parties should contact HR Manager Tara Andrews at tandrews [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com. More details can be found on the company’s Web site at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/about/employment.htm

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About Alexander Street Press
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:
Meg Keller
Director of Marketing Communications
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)

New Video Series Featuring Legends Of American Theatre Launched On DVD; Online Launch To Follow Later This Year

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, today announced the addition of The Dramatists Guild Fund’s new interview series, The Legacy Project, to its catalogue of video titles.

The Legacy Project, acquired by Filmakers Library, is an intimate portrait of legendary American dramatists through interviews conducted by emerging playwrights.

The series, featuring conversations with ten eminent writers of American theatre–including Stephen Sondheim, Lanford Wilson and John Kander–is currently available for purchase as a 10 DVD box set. Later in the year, the collection will also be available online in streaming video through Alexander Street’s Academic Video Online Store at http://academicvideostore.com

Said Linda Gottesman, Co-President of Filmakers Library, “This is a very exciting project. Anyone who loves theatre will want to see these interviews, and students of theatre will especially benefit from these rich conversations between emerging playwrights and theatre legends as they talk about the creative process and each playwright’s development.”

Gottesman noted the value of the series’ availability online via the Alexander Street streaming video platform. “When the online access launches later this year, professors will be able to assign the Legacy Project interviews to students to watch as easily as they assign texts for reading. Delivering video using this new medium means that the series will reach a much wider audience and be that much more useful for teaching and research.”

The Legacy Project series will also eventually be available to subscribing libraries and educational institutions through Alexander Street’s Theatre in Video collection. Theatre in Video is an online collection containing more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries.

The Dramatists Guild Fund is the public charity division of the Dramatists Guild of America, an association that has acted as a public advocate for dramatists for over 80 years.

A preview of the series is available on the Alexander Street YouTube channel. For more information on The Legacy Project or to order the DVD set, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/filmakers.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information for Theatre in Video by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is a publisher of award-winning, online collections of full-text, music, and video for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our products are available via online subscription and one-time purchase to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. Individual video titles, including The Legacy Project, will be available later this year at http://academicvideostore.com

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

Alexander Street Press Launches Online Collection Devoted To Nursing Education

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Nursing Education in Video, an online collection of streaming video for the training and education of nurses and nursing assistants, is the latest release from electronic publisher Alexander Street Press.

The result of a partnership with Medcom-Trainex, one of the largest providers of nursing education video programs worldwide, Nursing Education in Video covers the fundamentals of nurse training as well as advanced technical and procedural topics. This collection includes 260 full-length titles at launch and new videos are added regularly.

“Everyone knows that quality video is invaluable in nursing education, but until now it was incredibly difficult and expensive to find and maintain a broad collection, even in DVD form,” says Greg Urquhart, Vice President of Business Development. “Nursing Education in Video not only provides such a collection, but also makes it possible to incorporate these videos into the curriculum in ways never before possible.”

All of the videos in the collection are thoroughly indexed and transcribed, making it easy for users to find, cite and share exactly what they’re looking for. Titles are regularly reviewed for accuracy, and are updated to reflect the most current, best-practice standards from healthcare professional organizations, such as the Joint Commission and the AORN, and compliance with federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS.

Videos in the collection, created by Medcom with the guidance of noted doctors, nurses and subject experts, cover more than forty topical areas, including pediatrics, gerontology, basic clinical skills, medication administration, surgical care, infection control, communications and HIPAA compliance.

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

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Nursing Education in Video can be accessed online at http://mcom.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 Audrey DeGregorio at sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( adegregorio [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 for a username and password.

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

Award-Winning Documentary On "Blood" Minerals Is Latest Release From Filmakers Library

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of the documentary Blood in the Mobile: Mining in the Congo as the newest addition to its catalogue of titles.

This riveting documentary by Danish filmmaker, Frank Piasecki Poulsen, reveals the violent mineral trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its relation to the mobile phone industry.

Blood in the Mobile tracks Poulsen’s journey from the Congo, where he takes on the Congolese military and visits a militia-controlled slave mine that produces cassiterite, an oxide used in cell phones; to the headquarters of globally-recognized mobile phone company, Nokia, in pursuit of a meeting with the CEO.

“We all love our mobile phones” says Andrea Traubner, Director, Filmakers Library, “which is why this documentary is so relevant and important today. Poulsen creates awareness about what actually goes into this technology that many people take for granted. Anyone interested in social justice and political turmoil in Africa will find this film fascinating.”

Blood in the Mobile received the 2011 Cinema for Peace Award for Justice, and was nominated for the Students’ Choice award at the 2011 Amnesty International Movies That Matter festival.

Blood in the Mobile: Mining in the Congo is currently available for purchase on DVD. Starting in early October, this title will be available online in streaming video through Alexander Street’s Academic Video Online 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 Blood in the Mobile or to order the DVD, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/filmakers.htm

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NISO and UKSG Announce Five New KBART Endorsements

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September 16, 2010 – NISO and UKSG are pleased to announce the addition of five new organizations as official endorsers of the joint recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2010). This Phase I publication, published in January 2010, contains practical recommendations for the timely exchange of accurate metadata between content providers and knowledge base developers.

The most recent organizations to endorse KBART are: Alexander Street Press; Annual Reviews; EBSCO Information Services; Innovative Interfaces, Inc.; and Royal Society Publishing. These companies join the American Institute of Physics, Ex Libris, OCLC, and Serials Solutions on the list of formal endorsers. All content providers, from major databases to small publishers, are encouraged to publicly endorse the KBART Recommended Practice by submitting a sample file to the KBART working group, at kbart [at] niso [dot] org (kbart [at] niso [dot] org). Endorsement is finalized once the file's format and content has been reviewed and approved, and the provider has made it publicly available (in line with the recommendations).

Sarah Pearson, E-Resources & Serials Coordinator at the University of Birmingham and UKSG co-chair of the KBART Phase II Working Group, stated, “The joint NISO/UKSG working group is very pleased that the uptake of the recommendations is gathering momentum, as evidenced by the growth of formal KBART endorsements. We have been actively working to promote the benefits of implementing the recommendations, and are thrilled to see that our message is getting through. We look forward to seeing more progress in the future.”

KBART has also made a contacts registry available for content providers and knowledge base developers to register their organization's information for downloading holdings metadata. The registry provides a list of contacts, URLs, and instructions relating to the transfer of e-resource metadata between content providers and link resolvers. Companies that have formally endorsed KBART are marked with a KBART logo on the registry.

KBART’s Phase II work is underway to develop a second recommended practice that will build on the Phase I recommendations. Knowledge base providers and their customers (primarily academic libraries) will benefit from provision of higher quality data by content providers. Publishers will benefit from accurate linking to their content and subsequently the possibility of increased usage.

For more information on KBART and the current Phase II work, visit www.uksg.org/kbart or www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart.

About KBART
KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) was set up following the 2007 publication of the UKSG research report "Link Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain." Central to the efficient operation of the OpenURL is the knowledge base, which consists of data supplied by content providers including publishers. The report found that a lack of awareness of the OpenURLs capabilities and requirements is impacting the quality and timeliness of data provided to populate knowledge bases, and thus undermining the potential of the sophisticated OpenURL technology. UKSG partnered with NISO to commission the KBART Working Group to develop guidelines for best practice and provide educational materials. The core NISO/UKSG Working Group consists of representatives from libraries, knowledge base developers, publishers, intermediaries and other content providers, and is supported by a monitoring group of interested parties. Its Phase I report, KBART: Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2010), and guidelines have been widely reviewed and tested by a wider group of information supply chain stakeholders. For more information, visit www.uksg.org/kbart or www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart.

About NISO
NISO fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). More information about NISO, please contact NISO at (301) 654-2512 or via e-mail at nisohq [at] niso [dot] org (nisohq [at] niso [dot] org).

About UKSG
UKSG exists to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It spans the wide range of interests and activities of the extended scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors. In a dynamic environment, UKSG works to:

facilitate community integration, networking, discussion and exchange of ideas,
improve members' knowledge of the scholarly information sector and support skills development,
stimulate research and collaborative initiatives, encourage innovation and promote standards for good practice, and
disseminate news, information and publications, and raise awareness of services that support the scholarly information sector.

For more information, please visit the UKSG website, www.uksg.org.

For More Information, Contact:

Karen A. Wetzel
NISO Standards Program Manager
Phone: 301-654-2512
Email Karen A. Wetzel
Tracy Gardner
UKSG Marketing Associate
Email Tracy Gardner

Alexander Street Expands Partnership with NINES to Include The Romantic Era Redefined

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ALEXANDRIA, VA, August 9, 2010—In an ongoing effort to improve scholarly access to digital humanities resources, Alexander Street Press has partnered with The Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES) and its sister organization, 18thConnect: Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Online, to enable cross-search access to all relevant eighteenth- and nineteenth-century content from Alexander Street online collections, including, most recently, The Romantic Era Redefined.

Says Alexander Street director of software product management, Aaron Wood, “Now researchers looking for nineteenth-century primary materials using the NINES interface will pull up search results from The Romantic Era Redefined together with relevant materials from 88 other federated sites. This makes it much easier for scholars to find all of the relevant content out there—content that is not currently indexed by search engines or widely available on the Web. Researchers need this kind of one-stop vertical search access to highly specialized content, and we’re doing everything in our power to help provide it.”

NINES currently aggregates 736,696 peer reviewed digital objects from 88 federated sites. In addition to The Romantic Era Redefined, other Alexander Street Press collections indexed in the NINES and 18thConnect networks include The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, and Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.

A steady advocate for the cross-linking of scholarly resources, Alexander Street is partnering with a wide range of publishers and discovery platform services to improve scholarly access to digital materials in the humanities. For more information, please email marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( marketing [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. Learn more at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

About NINES

A scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first, NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) seeks to serve as a peer-reviewing body for digital work in the long 19th-century (1770-1920), British and American; to support scholars’ priorities and best practices in the creation of digital research materials; and to develop software tools for new and traditional forms of research and critical analysis. The NINES Collex interface is at the center of these efforts. It aims to gather the best scholarly resources in the field and make them fully searchable and interoperable; and to provide an online collecting and authoring space in which researchers can create and publish their own work.

About The Romantic Era Redefined

The result of Alexander Street’s partnership with London-based Pickering & Chatto Publishers, The Romantic Era Redefined will grow to include more than 170,000 pages of writings by both canonical and previously unrecognized writers from Britain, the British Empire, and North America. Genres include poetry, prose, drama, letters and diaries, as well as political, philosophical, and sociological works. Also included is the only complete online version of The Wordsworth Circle, an international academic publication devoted to the study of English Romantic literature, culture, and society.

Contact Information

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 Press Launches Collection Of Romantic-Era Literature

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OCTOBER 27, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, announces the release of Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle, an online collection of romantic-era literature previously unavailable in electronic format.

Romanticism Redefined contains over 120,000 pages of primary texts from London-based Pickering & Chatto Publishers, as well as another 10,000 pages comprising the only complete digital version of The Wordsworth Circle, a quarterly international academic journal for the study of English Romantic literature, culture and society.

“We are extremely excited to offer this collection to scholars of the romantic era,” noted Isabel Lacerda, editor of Romanticism Redefined. “Scholars and students can now rediscover these works in a new way through our full-text searching and Semantic Indexing, allowing for the tracing of new relationships among the works.”

Focusing on the “second generation” of writings, those from 1800-1830, Romanticism Redefined contains important texts that are often overlooked. With an emphasis on literature – poetry, novels, short fiction and drama – but also containing letters and diaries; political, philosophical, theological and sociological works; literary criticism; historical writings and more, the collection brings access to previously inaccessible works.

Selected titles from Pickering & Chatto’s collection include Conduct Literature for Women, 1770-1830 (six volumes); Works of Charlotte Smith (fourteen volumes), Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets (three volumes) and Parodies of the Romantic Age (five volumes). Also featured are the works of notable writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Joanna Baillie, Thomas DeQuincey, William Godwin and Mary Russell Mitford.

Read more information on Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)

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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 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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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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