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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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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

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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Alexander Street Press Debuts One-Stop Academic Video Store

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ALEXANDER STREET PRESS DEBUTS ONE-STOP ACADEMIC VIDEO STORE
Site Offers DVDs and Streaming Licenses for 2,500+ Single Title Films

June 26, 2013 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press has just unveiled its new Academic Video Store, which enables librarians and educators to browse thousands of academic DVDs and streaming videos through one easy-to-use site.

The Academic Video Store originally launched in 2011 as a streaming-only site, and has been fully revamped to improve the ease of searching, incorporate options for DVD purchases, and greatly expand the volume and diversity of titles available.

The new Academic Video Store combines the convenience of streaming video with the vast content archives of Alexander Street Press’s imprints—Filmakers Library, Microtraining Associates, and Asia Pacific Films—along with content partners like California Newsreel, TVF International, and more. A majority of titles can be purchased in either DVD or streaming format,

making it easy for users to get the content they want in the format that best suits their needs.

With more than 40 major disciplines represented, the Academic Video Store carries something for virtually every academic program. Popular categories include:

African American studies
Anthropology
Asian studies
Counseling and therapy

Criminal justice
Environment
Globalization
Health

History
LGBT studies
Sociology
Women’s studies

And because all titles within the Academic Video Store have been reviewed and hand selected by editorial experts, educators can rely on the films to be high-quality and relevant to their teaching goals.

The functionality of the site is designed with the academic community in mind. Permanent URLs are available for all streaming videos to make it easy to embed films into course management systems or syllabi. The Academic Video Store also lets purchasers share streaming titles with unlimited other users at the same institution, with no additional purchases required.

“We’re always thinking, ‘How do we make this more helpful for our users? What would improve their experience?’” says Jessica Kemp, Marketing Director at Alexander Street Press. “We have incredible amounts of valuable content, but prior to this launch, it was in disparate places and not always easy to navigate. Now you can purchase a stream five minutes before class and show it to your students then and there.”

The Academic Video Store is growing rapidly and will increase by 2,000 titles in the next month alone, with regular updates as content partners release new films. The site is available to all Web users, and will be demoed at the ALA Annual meeting in Chicago later this week. No special setup or software is required to stream videos—all you need is a Web browser. For more information, or to begin browsing, visit www.academicvideostore.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 Launches Archive Of LGBT Text Resources

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Alexander Street Launches Archive Of Lgbt Text Resources Features Exclusive Content From The Kinsey Institute And Windy City Media Group

MAY 26, 2013 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press has launched LGBT Thought and Culture, an online collection of key works and rare archival documents tracing the history of LGBT movement throughout the 20th century and into the present day.

At completion, the collection will include 150,000 pages of transnational material from around the world, ranging from seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights to memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction.

CARLI Strikes Deal with Alexander Street Press

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May 8, 2013 (ALEXANDRIA, VA)— Alexander Street Press has forged a landmark agreement with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) to provide perpetual access to academic online video collections for 124 of the group's participating governing member institutions.

Since 2005, CARLI has united libraries across Illinois with the common goal of building environments that foster scholarship and education. Beginning in May, governing member institutions will be granted perpetual streaming access to the six Alexander Street Press video databases of their choice from a broad range of disciplines. The agreement will also cover participating libraries’ access fees for the first 10 years.

This unique agreement allowed each participating library the freedom to select the resources that best fit the needs of its patrons. The most frequently chosen collections include American History in Video, Nursing Education in Video, World History in Video, Health and Society in Video, Education in Video, Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video, and volumes I–III of Counseling and Therapy in Video.

Cindy Clennon, CARLI Director of Electronic Resources explained, “This purchase was facilitated by a significant investment in ASP video collections made by four CARLI member libraries: Northern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. That purchase created a basis for this new endeavor and all of the CARLI libraries have benefitted from their vision.”

“We’re thrilled to provide these resources to so many institutions across Illinois,” said Alexander Street Press President Stephen Rhind-Tutt. “This agreement enables us to share information with hundreds of thousands of students, faculty, and scholars, and strongly supports our mission of making silent voices heard. CARLI is a pioneer in the field, and we hope this will open doors for other groups seeking ways to enrich their members’ resources.”

“The CARLI Board of Directors is excited to make these innovative resources available to our governing members," said CARLI Executive Director Susan Singleton. “Budgets are tight right now, but this agreement provides unprecedented flexibility for our institutions and allows them to embrace streaming video to support teaching and scholarship in dramatic new ways. We're grateful to Alexander Street Press for their instrumental role in making this landmark agreement possible. "

Each collection from Alexander Street Press includes hundreds of hours of high-caliber video hand selected by content experts. For many participating libraries, these will become the first video databases on offer, allowing thousands of students and faculty to experiment with and learn the benefits of streaming video.

According to Thomas Teper, Associate Dean and Associate University Librarian for Collections at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Our campus made a significant investment in Alexander Street’s streaming video products a couple of years ago. The flexibility of the offer made to CARLI provides broader coverage of streaming products to our campus and enables us to continue support to our consortial partners.”

Denise Cote, Reference Librarian at College of DuPage adds, “Alexander Street provides an excellent product that is easy for faculty to use in their online courses and in their classrooms. The collections subsidized by CARLI add useful content to our Academic Video Online subscription and we are thrilled to have access.”

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About CARLI
Since 2005, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois has led the state’s academic libraries to create and sustain rich, supportive, and diverse knowledge environments that further teaching, learning, and research through the sharing of collections, expertise, and programs. Together, CARLI’s 145 member libraries serve the needs of 850,000 students and thousands of faculty and staff. Read more at www.carli.illinois.edu.

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

Baking Discovery into the Pie: A Mouth-Watering Library Webcast

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Discovery service not doing what you hoped it would? Your library just bought a brand new video collection, but you can’t you find anything in it?

Join us for a webinar to learn more about the power of integrating discovery directly into your e-resources.

Let two product editors and a librarian walk you through their philosophy of search—that discovery shouldn’t mean losing discipline-specific searching, that videos and scores should be just as easy to find as books and periodicals, and cross-search should be a given.

Then, see examples of the impact this has on ease of use, find-ability, and ultimately, patron satisfaction.

Sign up for the webinar today.

Can’t make it October 3rd? No problem! Register now and you will get an email reminder from Library Journal post-live event when the webcast is archived and available for on-demand viewing at your convenience!

Can't-miss sessions at Charleston 2014

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Charleston is just a week away.

If you'll be there, make sure you drop by our booth at the vendor showcase to pick up a free pass to all Alexander Street collections, good through December 31, 2014.

While you’re there, learn more about our pilot PDA program and how you can apply. Plus, get the scoop on our brand new subscription channels, forthcoming collection in human rights, expanding EBA program, and more.

We’ll also be participating in a several sessions throughout the conference, so we hope to see you there!

DRM: A Publisher-Imposed Impediment to Progress, or a Legitimate Defense of Publisher/Author Intellectual Property Rights

Vice president of editorial and licensing David Parker joins this discussion about the benefits and the complexities surrounding digital rights management.

Join us: Thursday, November 6 at 10:20 a.m.

Out of the Basement: Impact of Video on New Library Resources and Library Collections and Services

Featuring a panel that includes senior vice president Eileen Lawrence, this presentation explores key decision-making factors when growing library video holdings and introduces the expanding product lines at Alexander Street Press and other key publishers.

Join us: Thursday, November 6 at 2:15 p.m.

See you in Charleston,

David Parker, vice president of editorial and licensing
Eileen Lawrence, senior vice president

Now available: Human Rights Studies Online

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ALEXANDER STREET INTRODUCES HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE ARCHIVE

(ALEXANDRIA, VA) – With this week’s launch of theHuman Rights Studies Online collection, researchers and historians can now access thousands of rare materials that give voice to the countless victims ofhuman rights atrocities in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database that provides comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide. The collection is growing to include more than 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of videothat add new dimensions of understanding to the events of the past century.

The collection provides primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than 30 additional subjects.

Resources for each topic guide users through the full scope of the event, from the historical context that made such violations possible through the international response, prosecution of perpetrators, and steps toward rebuilding.

Content is provided by preeminent historical archives and publishers, as well as video partners including Journeyman Pictures, BBC, and Witness.org—an organization with more than 20 years of experience using video as an advocacy tool for addressing human rights violations and fostering change.

Library patrons can look to this resource for essential documentation including previously unpublished archival items:

Personal accounts and artifacts that illustrate the impact of policies on individuals.
Television footage, photographs, and NGO press releases showing how events were portrayed as they unfolded
Government and court documentation, some never before available digitally
Documentaries, interviews, monographs, essays, and articles that help contextualize events
Select works of arts and literature that memorialize those affected

“Through firsthand accounts and testimonies, we can learn about humanity at its best and at its worst.” said Nathalie Duval, history publisher at Alexander Street Press. “We publish this resource to tell the story of these atrocities with an eye toward understanding, so that these crimes can be prevented in the future."

Alexander Street Press’s Human Rights Studies Online is 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 pairs exclusive content with the latest technology to deliver customizable products and services to libraries and their patrons worldwide. We blend video, audio, and text with cutting-edge online tools to transform the way people research, learn, and teach in virtually every discipline. 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 Launches Patron-Driven Acquisition

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(DUNDEE, SCOTLAND) – Alexander Street Press has forged a milestone agreement with the University of Dundee in Scotland that establishes the publisher as a key resource for patron-driven acquisition of library materials.

Beginning this month, patrons of the University of Dundee’s library will have unlimited access to Alexander Street Press’s complete suite of academic video titles—more than 23,000 titles—for one full year. At the conclusion of this period, university staff will use Alexander Street’s detailed metrics to evaluate the most-viewed titles and select those they’d like to incorporate into their permanent collection.

“Letting libraries hand-curate their own collection adds unprecedented value,” said Jordan White, senior product manager at Alexander Street Press. “This model ensures libraries of all budgets can provide their patrons with access to precisely the materials they’re looking for. Everybody wins.”

This inaugural agreement will pave the way for libraries worldwide to add the most highly sought-after content into their university’s collection in a precise, cost-effective way. And because all video content within Alexander Street Press’s databases is carefully selected by expert editors, library administrators can rely on the quality and relevance of all materials to the academic populations they serve.

“The University of Dundee has a strong desire to enhance the licensed video-based material that is available to support learning and teaching through a wide range of disciplines,” says university librarian Richard Parsons. “This is important for meeting staff and student expectations in our new digitally based environment. The new patron-driven acquisition provided by Alexander Street Press has offered us the opportunity to ensure that our expenditure for these resources is targeted directly to support material that is being utilized to enhance learning. This represents a very cost-effective method for ensuring that the maximum resource is available from the library budget.”

For more information about Alexander Street Press’s patron-driven acquisition model, visit the FAQ page, or please contact sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Australasian Film Archive Launches at Alexander Street Press

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(BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA) – Alexander Street Press has just launched Australasian Video Online, a streaming online resource that brings together the region’s most respected films for academic audiences. The collection is growing to include 500 hours of content from some of the region’s most trusted content partners.

Content within Australasian Video Online is curated to include key video published from the mid-20th century to present day that touches on the undergraduate curriculum needs of virtually every department. Films highlight regional perspectives on anthropology, environmental studies, business, economics, health, media studies, the arts, and other important disciplines. The collection also places an emphasis on coverage of indigenous issues and other region-specific cultural subjects.

Sample titles include:

Everyday Brave—First-hand stories of movers and shakers in the Aboriginal community
The Game of Our Lives—Rugby’s cultural significance in New Zealand
Bom Bali—Circumstances behind the 2002 terrorist bombings in Bali
Kiribati? Here We Are—Local efforts to gain political, economic, and cultural autonomy in Kiribati
And hundreds more

Films include some of the most-used titles in the classroom and come from content partners including the National Film and Sound Archive’s Film Australia Collection, SBS Television, George Andrews Productions, Beamafilm, and Electric Pictures.

“This collection allows libraries, teachers, and researchers to incorporate Australasian flavour into their work,” says Julie Stevens, Australian publisher at Alexander Street Press. “By combining selected films with accompanying teaching guides and links to relevant resources, the collection becomes more than just a streaming video database; it’s an interactive teaching and learning collection valuable across a wide variety of disciplines.”

Alexander Street Press’s Australasian Video Online is 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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ALEXANDER STREET PRESS DEBUTS ONE-STOP ACADEMIC VIDEO STORE Site Offers DVDs and Streaming Licenses for 2,500+ Single Title Films

Alexander Street Launches Archive Of Lgbt Text Resources Features Exclusive Content From The Kinsey Institute And Windy City Media Group

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ALEXANDER STREET PRESS DEBUTS ONE-STOP ACADEMIC VIDEO STORE
Site Offers DVDs and Streaming Licenses for 2,500+ Single Title Films

ALEXANDER STREET INTRODUCES HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE ARCHIVE