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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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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 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.

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

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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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)

Alexander Street Adds EMI Recordings To Classical Music Library

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JULY 13, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street announced the addition of nearly 22,500 recordings from EMI and EMI sub-labels Virgin Classics and Angel Records to its award-winning streaming music collection for libraries and educational institutions, Classical Music Library.

Said Editorial Director Liz Dutton, “These are world-class artists and ensembles—seminal and historic recordings together with the most important contemporary releases. The breadth and scope of the new content represents a fantastic addition to Classical Music Library, and it will have an enormous impact on the collection’s value for students and music instructors at the thousands of subscribing universities worldwide and for classical music fans accessing the collection through their public library.”

Highlights of the release include recordings by Thomas Hampson, the Eroica Trio, Enrico Caruso, Natalie Dessay, Sarah Chang, Les Arts Florissants, Maria Callas, Julian Bream, the English Consort, Dinu Lipatti, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, Yehudi Menuhin, Kiri Te Kanawa, Maxim Vengerov, and many more.

The publisher also announced that they have added global rights for all of the EMI recordings in Classical Music Library for all territories except Japan. An additional 35,000 recordings, also largely from EMI, will be added to Classical Music Library later this year. In all, the e-resource has tripled the number of recordings since 2010.

EMI is known for being the world’s oldest recording label, and for possessing the largest catalog of classical recordings in the world. In addition to EMI, Alexander Street has licensed recordings from more than 50 other major music labels, including Sanctuary Classics, Hyperion, CBC, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and Hänssler Classic.

Classical Music Library is part of Music Online, Alexander Street’s growing suite of recordings, scores, videos, and music reference e-resources. All of the collections in the Music Online suite of e-resources are fully integrated and cross-searchable from a single URL, making it the only comprehensive resource for the study and enjoyment of classical, world, American, and jazz music.

More information about Classical Music Library and the entire Music Online suite of music listening and reference e-resources can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/music.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a 30-day trial and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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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)

Alexander Street To Launch Five New Online Collections Before End Of Year

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JULY 5, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced plans to publish five new online collections for scholars and students in the final quarter of 2011. Said Alexander Street publisher Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “It’s a big year for us in terms of new product launches, both in our traditional areas of primary materials and music education, and now in video. We’ve got hundreds of top video production and distribution companies as well as individual filmmakers licensing thousands and thousands of hours of content to us for our Academic Video Online, platform, and we’re thrilled to be able to make all of this video content more accessible to faculty, students, and the general public through their libraries.”

Nursing Education in Video, an online collection of streaming video for the training and professional development of nurses and nursing assistants, is the result of a partnership with Medcom-Trainex, one of the largest providers of nursing education video programs worldwide. As a single, cross-searchable collection, Nursing Education in Video will cover the fundamentals of nurse training as well as advanced topics. With 300 full-length titles at launch, the collection will grow by roughly 30 titles each year and will be updated regularly to ensure regulatory compliance and currency relative to best practices.

Classical Music in Video will include 1,500 full-length video titles. Performances include every form of classical music, from orchestral works performed by leading orchestras, to chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances. The collection will also include interviews with master teachers from around the world and hundreds of masterclasses captured on video—including the complete, award-winning Masterclass Media Foundation series.

Classical Scores Library: Volume II will include 200,000 pages focusing on in-copyright material from major living contemporary composers around the world as well as many works not represented in Alexander Street’s very popular first volume of scores. Targeted composers slated for inclusion include Michael Tippett, Hugo Wolf, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives, Andrew Schultz, Moya Henderson, Nicholas Vines, Giovanni Sammartini, Michael Haydn, Carl Orff, and many others.

Anthropology Online brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Cross-searchable with Alexander Street’s Ethnographic Video Online, Anthropology Online provides sociologists, anthropologists, cultural historians, and others with complete works of the key practitioners and theorists alike throughout the discipline.

The final release slated for 2011 is Australian and New Zealand Letters and Diaries, a Semantically Indexed, full-text collection of more than 150,000 pages. This e-resource tells the stories of immigrants as they migrated to the new world that was Australia and New Zealand between 1788 and 1922.

The publisher offers a Sneak Peek program: anyone interested may register to get a username and password at launch, good for 48 hours of free access to the new collections. Qualified libraries, universities, scholars, and faculty members may request an additional month of institution-wide free trial access by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

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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.

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 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.

6 Million New Audio Tracks Added to Music Online

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(ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press is adding 6.2 million tracks to its award-winning streaming audio databases. Available to academic libraries worldwide, the newly licensed content increases sevenfold the listening portfolio available to music subscribers at no additional cost.

Every one of the 6.2 million new tracks is exclusive to Alexander Street within the academic market. Works come from a broad range of independent labels, with a large concentration in popular music. The tracks feature both emerging artists and well-known performers in an array of genres:

Rock/Pop: Coldplay, Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Dionne Warwick, Van Morrison
Rap/Hip-hop: Pitbull, Ying Yang Twins, Wu-Tang Clan, Lil John & The East Side Boyz
World Music: Bob Marley, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Dubliners, Edith Piaf
R&B/Blues: Ray Charles, Little Richard, Nina Simone, John Lee Hooker
Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Tony Bennett
Plus Classical, Electronic/Dance, Metal, and more

By the summer of 2014, the full suite of new tracks will be made available to current customers of Music Online: Listening. Later in the year, relevant tracks will also be incorporated into Alexander Street Press’s existing discipline listening collections—American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Jazz Music Library—completely free for existing subscribers at academic institutions.

All tracks will be delivered on Alexander Street Press’s cutting-edge online platform, which provides dozens of powerful tools and features, including:

24/7 access for unlimited simultaneous users on campus or off
Audio streaming at up to cd quality (320kbps)
Streamlined searching and browsing functionality
Tools for creating and sharing audio clips and playlists
Detailed usage statistics and a forthcoming deluxe admin portal

“Thanks to recent licensing agreements, we’re able to bring incredible new content to our customers in unprecedented volume,” said Tim Lloyd, COO and music publisher at Alexander Street Press. “We’re delighted to be able to offer academic libraries the largest and broadest range of audio recordings to support their learning and research needs.”

Alexander Street’s listening collections are available to academic libraries worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. No special setup or software is required—all you need is an Internet browser. For more information or to request a trial or price quote, email 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. 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

Nursing Video Resources Expanding Fast at Alexander Street

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(ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press introduces two online video collections—Nursing Assistant Education in Video and Nursing Assessment in Video—designed exclusively for nursing professionals in training.

Nursing Assistant Education in Video includes 37 full-length training videos specifically geared toward nursing assistants on topics from infection control and oral care to communication and working with elders. Nursing Assessment in Video showcases the skills and techniques all nurses need to know to make an accurate patient assessment. Because all titles in the collections were created since 2009 and 2012 respectively, these databases ensure professionals will have access to the most up-to-date information available.

These sister collections follow on the heels of Alexander Street Press’s inaugural nursing collection Nursing Education in Video, which Choice named an Outstanding Academic Title in 2012. All three collections feature content from Medcom-Trainex, a leading provider of nursing education videos worldwide, so users can rely on content to be accurate and compliant with industry standards and best practices.

“Content from MedCom Trainex is the best in the industry,” said Greg Urquhart, nursing collection editor at Alexander Street Press. “It’s the most trustworthy, reliable training material available, and we believe nursing programs of all stripes will benefit greatly from having greater access to this information.”

The two collections launch on Alexander Street Press’s new interface, which provides access to dozens of features including synchronized scrolling transcripts, tools for creating and sharing video clips and playlists, and unlimited anytime, anywhere access to content.

Nursing Assistant Education in Video and Nursing Assessment in Video are available to libraries worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. No special setup or software is required—all you need is an Internet browser. For more information or to request a trial or price quote, email 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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