MAY 24, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced the launch of the first online collection of primary materials chronicling the activities and influence of women’s international movements from 1830 to the present.

The editors of Women and Social Movements, International are Professors Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, both women’s history scholars at SUNY Binghamton. Said Sklar, “Women have created new forms of transnational citizenship—different from the diplomatic or commercial activities that men have dominated internationally. New access to the historical content in this project will be transformative for scholars and students, allowing us to see, for the first time, that many of the global interactions that shape our world today were first forged by women.”

With 150,000 pages at completion and backed by a global editorial board of 130 historians, Women and Social Movements International will grow to include material from over 200 archives and libraries. Key organizations featured in the collection include the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the International Abolitionist Federation, the Inter-American Commission on Women, the International Alliance of Women, the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asian Women’s Association, the International Congress of Women at The Hague, the International Women’s Tribune Centre, and many more.

Partner archives include Harvard’s Schlesinger Library, the Aletta Institute of Women’s History, the Sophia Smith Collection, the Library of Congress, and the Mildred Persinger Collection from Hollins University.

As with other Alexander Street online collections, Women and Social Movements International is Semantically Indexed and powerfully searchable. The collection’s image viewer technology allows researchers to view and search high-quality images of the original primary materials.

To give scholars an opportunity to fully evaluate the collection, Alexander Street is offering Scholar’s Pass Access to all qualified faculty members from June 1 – August 31. Professors may request access on the publisher’s Web site at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/wasstrial2011.htm.

To learn more about the collection, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/wasi.htm

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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.

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing marketing [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

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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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 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)

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.

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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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/

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