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Alexander Street Premieres Expansive Video Collection for Study of Human Movement

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August 22, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press launches the most extensive video collection ever compiled of sports medicine and exercise science content.

Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video features hundreds of hours of high-quality clinician education materials on the study of human movement. Developed through an exclusive partnership with Healthy Learning—the world’s leading producer of sports medicine videos—the collection’s content covers performance, conditioning, rehabilitation, and physical education across a broad range of sports and activities. At completion, the collection will contain nearly 750 hours of content.

Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video includes demonstrations of the principles, techniques, and modalities of modern exercise and sport science from acclaimed athletic trainers, physicians, physical therapists, registered dieticians, and other wellness professionals. The collection’s more than one hundred featured authorities include:

Walter M. Bortz II, MD, past president of the American Geriatric Society
Melinda Millard-Stafford, PhD, FACSM, past president of the American College of Sports Medicine
Tedd Mitchell, MD, medical director of the world-famous Cooper Clinic in Dallas
Pam Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, chief medical correspondent for Discovery Health TV
Eddie Phillips, MD, FACSM, director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard University

Focal topics across the collection include includes sport-specific training, exercise psychology, injury prevention and treatment, nutrition, special populations, fitness and health assessment, medical fitness, exercise adherence, sport science, worksite wellness, and much more.

Titles in each collection have been approved for educational use by key organizations such as the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Athletic Trainers Association, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, and the American Council on Exercise. Content is regularly reviewed and updated to ensure accuracy and compliance with current standards.

The collection is currently for sale worldwide. More information about Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video 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

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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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:
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 Announces Partnership With MEDCOM-TRAINEX

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JUNE 1, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced plans to publish Nursing Education in Video, an online collection of streaming video for the training and professional development of nurses and nursing assistants.

The result of a partnership with MEDCOM-TRAINEX, one of the largest providers of nursing education video programs worldwide, the collection will give nursing faculty and students at subscribing institutions 24/7 online access to MEDCOM’s highly regarded library of full-length training programs together with the advanced functionality typical of Alexander Street’s video collections. Already widely used in nursing courses and hospitals, MEDCOM videos have won more than 50 major awards for excellence, including the prestigious Emmy award.

Said Greg Urquhart, vice president of business development at Alexander Street Press, “To create a nursing education collection, our goal was to identify the very best video content in that space, and MEDCOM was an obvious choice. Their reputation is second to none, and their DVDs are already widely used in nursing courses.”

Said MEDCOM vice-president, Michael K. Zoradi, “This collection will make it much easier for nursing faculty and students to access and use this content, and the Alexander Street video platform offers a lot of extra features—a single place to cross-search all videos, scrolling transcripts, mobile access—these features offer a lot of advantages for faculty and students, and we’re very pleased about the partnership.”

As a single, cross-searchable collection, Nursing Education in Video will cover the fundamentals of nurse training as well as advanced topics, including: Anatomy and Physiology, Basic Clinical Skills, Cardiology, Communications, Gerontology, Infection Control, Legal Aspects of Nursing, Long Term Care, Medication Administration, Nursing Assistant Skills, Obstetrical Nursing, Pediatrics, Surgical Care, and Wound Care.

Alexander Street plans to launch Nursing Education in Video as an online streaming collection later this year. At launch, the collection will include more than 300 titles, and it will grow by approximately 30 new videos each year.

To learn more about Nursing Education in Video, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/mcom.htm

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections for research, training, and teaching. Alexander Street online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. Learn more about Alexander Street's growing suite of online video resources at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/video.htm. For more information or for media access to any of the Alexander Street streaming video collections, contact Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

Contact Details
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)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

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’s Music Online Grows by Nearly 400,000 Recordings

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January 7, 2011 (SAN DIEGO, CA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announced today that its streaming music service for libraries and the education market has nearly tripled in size following the addition of close to 400,000 new jazz, world, and American music recordings.

“This is the largest single content release we’ve done to-date,” said Alexander Street’s senior music editor Liz Dutton, who explained that system-wide enhancements, process improvements, and search functionality upgrades have made the site’s rapid—and ongoing—growth possible. Said Dutton, “We expect to offer access to more than 750,000 recordings by mid-2011.” Other site enhancements include ten times faster search speeds; sound quality, which has increased from 64 kbps to 320 kbps for most recordings; and simplified search results display. Since mid-2010, the site has also supported on-the-go access for most mobile devices.

The range of new recordings across Music Online reflects the publisher’s commitment to providing affordable educational access to the highest quality recordings and record labels. Said Dutton, “Music education programs—and audiophiles served by public libraries—want and need not just a vast repertoire, but access to the very best performances, performers, and the highest quality recordings.“

New recordings were released across many of the Music Online databases, including 46,000 tracks into American Song, 61,000 tracks into Jazz Music Library, and 132,000 tracks into Contemporary World Music. Prominent highlights of the latest release include seminal live performances by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Muggsy Spanier, and the Mills Brothers as well as albums from Sarah Vaughan, Otis Grand, Ike & Tina Turner, Eddie Dean, Bill Haley, Gene Autry, Rudy Vallee, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Willie Nelson, the Highwaymen, and James Brown. Record labels include Storyville Records, JSP Records, The Montreux Jazz Label, Jazz Unlimited, Daptone Records, JSP Records, Acrobat, and GNP Crescendo. The publisher plans another major release of 57,000 new classical recordings from EMI in late January.

Also new to Music Online are close to 140,000 popular music recordings—available only to subscribers of the entire Music Online: Listening suite—featuring pop, punk, musical theatre, hip-hop, and country recordings from twentieth-century artists such as the Sex Pistols, Chicago, a Flock of Seagulls, Tanya Tucker, Liberace, and Rod Stewart. For a complete listing of all new content added to Music Online, visit http://muco.alexanderstreet.com and select “What’s New.”

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About Music Online*
A cross-searchable, online suite of music listening, score, and reference resources and the most comprehensive online resource available for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American music, Music Online includes five individual “Listening” collections: Classical Music Library; Jazz Music Library; American Song; Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries; and Contemporary World Music. With this update, Music Online now includes more than 690,000 recordings; more than 24,000 musical scores; 400-plus opera and dance videos; and more than 66,000 pages of music reference content.*

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 online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions world-wide. 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).

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

*recording counts represent data available for the North American market. For worldwide data, email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (sales [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
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Alexander Street Debuts Streaming Video Series of Milgram's Defining Experiments in Social Psychology

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Alexander Street Press announces the addition of a six-film series featuring the innovative and often controversial experiments of social psychologist Stanley Milgram. This set is available for the first time in streaming format exclusively through Alexander Street.

The series centers around the defining experiments of Milgram’s career, most notably his revolutionary study on obedience to authority. The film Obedience includes the only authentic footage of Milgram’s famous 1961 experiment, in which subjects at Yale University were told to administer electric shocks of increasing severity to another person. The stunning results of the experiment, which showed that sixty-five percent of participants administered the experiment’s final massive 450-volt shock, remain relevant more than fifty years later as people continue to ask themselves, “Would I pull that lethal switch?”

Other films in the Milgram series include:

The City and the Self — A combination art and documentary film exploring the concepts of urban overload, selective attention, and cases like the murder of Kitty Genovese.
Conformity and Independence — An examination of psychology’s primary findings on why people conform, obey, and dissent in various social situations.
Human Aggression — An exploration of the major scientific principles governing human aggression, using examples from a youth gang to illustrate how aggression is learned and expressed.
Invitation to Social Psychology — An overview of the guiding principles of social psychology, including reenactments of experiments from renowned researchers like Asch, Bandura, and Zimbardo.
Nonverbal Communication — A collection of expert interviews discussing research theories on nonverbal behavior including gesture, expression, and body language.

A preview of this series can be found on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel. Videos from the Milgram series are available individually or as a series, and can be purchased online in streaming video format or as DVDs.

For more information on The Stanley Milgram Films on Social Psychology, or to order, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/milgram. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com. To request a reviewer copy, please contact Abby Horowitz at ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Alexander Street Press Announces Academic Video Online Publishing Plan for 2011, Launches Three New Streaming Video Collections

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April 5, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced plans to launch an integrated online repository of academic video titles. Already the publisher of 10 distinct, discipline-specific streaming video collections containing more than 8,000 films, Alexander Street intends to rapidly expand its offerings?to more than 10,000 titles in 2011 and to 20,000 by 2013.

The new platform, Academic Video Online, will also make it possible for subscribers to cross-search all of their Alexander Street videos from a single interface. New collections will include Art and Architecture, Religion and Philosophy, Law and Criminal Justice, Politics and Current Affairs, World Language and Literature, Psychology, Health, General Science, Business and Economics, and Diversity Studies. Later this year the publisher will offer individual streaming title options as well.

As part of its rapid expansion, Alexander Street also announced the launch of three new video collections, each available to libraries and educational institutions via annual subscription or one-time purchase: Filmakers Library Online; Education in Video; and Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume II.

The result of Alexander Street's acquisition in January of the highly regarded academic video distributor Filmakers Library, Filmakers Library Online is a continually growing online collection of issue-based documentaries and independent films.

Multidisciplinary in scope, the collection includes a wide range of subjects?race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions worldwide. The collection currently includes more than 900 films, and additional titles will be added regularly.

An online collection of videos for the training and professional development of K-12 educators, Education in Video will quickly grow to contain more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available.

The third collection launched this week, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II, is a supplement to one of Alexander Street's best-selling resources. Together, the two volumes of Counseling and Therapy in Video provide the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. The second volume of Counseling and Therapy in Video includes more than 140 videos, growing soon to more than 300; the first volume includes more than 350 titles. Soon, the two volumes will be fully cross-searchable for institutions that subscribe to both.

Currently the publisher is offering a one-month Sneak Peek access to all three new video collections. Libraries and educators who register at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/newvideo2011.htm will receive a username and password good through April 30, 2011.

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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 online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions world-wide. Learn more about Alexander Street's growing suite of online video resources at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/video.htm. For more information or for media access to any of the Alexander Street streaming video collections, contact Meg Keller at 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
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Filmakers Library, Inc. Joins Forces with Alexander Street Press, LLC

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January 7, 2011 (SAN DIEGO, CA)—Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced that it has acquired Filmakers Library, the highly regarded New York-based distributor of documentary films. Filmakers was founded in 1969 by Linda Gottesman and Sue Oscar to distribute high-quality, issue-based documentaries to the education market. Over the past 40 years it has brought a wide range of titles from around the world to a receptive academic audience. Award-winning titles include Original Intent: The Battle for America; Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Prison Lullabies; The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark; and Muslims in Love.

Said Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street Press, “This is a wonderful match. Together we’ll be able to give library and education customers the best documentary content on the most flexible delivery platform. Filmakers has a long history of service to filmmakers and librarians—we feel honored to be continuing the tradition.”

Alexander Street plans to launch the complete Filmakers Library as a subscription-based online streaming database, Filmakers Library Online, in early 2011. The publisher will also make it possible for libraries and educational institutions to order individual films via the Alexander Street streaming platform.

Said Linda Gottesman, “This new relationship ensures that the Filmakers Library collection will reach an ever wider audience.” Co-founder Sue Oscar agreed. “It will be easier than ever for faculty and students in particular to access these films—wherever they are, whenever they want to watch. Filmakers Library is thrilled that the collection will have a new life in this new medium, and we’re confident that Alexander Street will maintain the high standards for which we are known.”

Co-founders Sue Oscar and Linda Gottesman and Filmakers director Andrea Traubner will remain with Filmakers following the acquisition and will continue to be based out of the Filmakers offices in New York. To learn more about the Filmakers collection of videos, visit http://filmakers.com. To learn more about the launch of Filmakers Library Online, 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, music, and performing arts. Alexander Street online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. 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.

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 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
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Film On Wikileaks' Source Is New Release From Filmakers Library

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OCTOBER 4, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, today announces the addition of The Forgotten Man: Private Bradley Manning and the Wikileaks Controversy to its catalogue of titles.

In The Forgotten Man, reporter Quentin McDermott tells the inside story of Private Bradley Manning, the alleged source of the classified documents published by WikiLeaks, and explores the disputes surrounding the scandal.

Like the controversy itself, this film begins with the shocking 2007 U.S. Army video, published by Wikileaks in April 2010, showing a group of mostly unarmed men being gunned down in Bagdad by an American helicopter. This sets the stage for an intense investigation into the reasons and personalities behind the release of the video and many other U.S. war files.

“Law, scandal, politics, journalism and espionage; sounds like a mystery novel but it’s current events,” said Linda Gottesman, Co-founder of Filmakers Library. “Scholars of many disciplines will find this film fascinating, not just for its value to possible research but for its new approach in coverage of this controversy.”

Featuring interviews with many key players – Daniel Domscheit-Berf, former spokesperson for WikiLeaks; Dean Baquet, Washington bureau chief for the New York Times; Adrian Lamo, former hacker who informed the authorities of Manning’s involvement; and Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks – the details of this globally-publicized intelligence heist are played out in this film by ABC Australia.

The Forgotten Man is currently available for purchase on DVD. Starting in mid-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 The Forgotten Man: Private Bradley Manning and the WikiLeaks Controversy 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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New Release From Filmakers Library Explores Controversial Issue Of Gene Patenting

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of Body Corporate: Who Owns Your Genes? to its catalog of video titles.

In Body Corporate, Australian reporter Andrew Fowler takes a closer look at the controversy surrounding the rights to genes in both the United States and Australia, attempting to answer one question: should we allow individuals and corporations to patent genes?

Taking an investigative journalism approach, Fowler examines the current legal battles surrounding gene patents and introduces viewers to families affected by patents that are currently in place for genes linked to heath issues such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer, epilepsy and long QT syndrome; a heart condition that, at its most devastating form, causes the heart to beat too quickly.

“This film is both informative and, at times, heart wrenching,” explains Linda Gottesman, Co-founder of Filmakers Library. “Scientific scholars will surely benefit from the information provided through interviews, but the stories told by families help to put everything in perspective no matter what side of the debate you are on.”

Featuring interviews with top genetics researchers, including Dr. Wendy K. Chung of Columbia University, Dr. Sean Grimmond of the University of Queensland and Dr. Mark Skolnick, founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Myriad Genetics, “the high stakes battle over who owns your genes” is played out in this film by ABC Australia.

Body Corporate is currently available for purchase on DVD. Starting in mid-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 Body Corporate: Who Owns Your Genes? 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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