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Welcome to Alexander Street Press
Alexander
Street is a premier publisher of scholarly databases in the arts, humanities,
and social sciences. Each
database has been thoroughly indexed and cross referenced by discipline-specific
teams of scholars, ensuring that users are easily able to find
the most relevant, useful content.
For
the latest updates on our products and services, check out our
weblog.
You can also request a trial to
any of our databases.
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Latest News |
 Alexander
Street's Critical Video Editions™ Series
Alexander Street's new
Critical Video Editions™ series
combines the excitement of video with new search capabilities and
Alexander Street's Semantic Indexing™. Now, with all the barriers
and frustrations removed, scholars can explore, share, and cite video as
never before.
With Critical Video Editions you
can easily navigate, browse, and search thousands of hours of video, and
access the exact second of footage you want. Video can be
bookmarked, annotated, cited, linked to, put into playlists or folders,
and shared—with permanent URLs. Create custom clips and embed them
wherever you like. Critical Video Editions makes video more
useful and functional for scholarship than ever before. |
Twentieth Century Advice Literature Is Launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of
Twentieth Century Advice
Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family.
The collection currently features 19,000 pages of handbooks, manuals,
and guidebooks. Upon completion Twentieth Century Advice
Literature will contain over 150,000 pages. Many of the works
are highly visual and all texts feature Alexander Street's Semantic
Indexing™. |
Opera in
Video Goes Live
Alexander Street's latest addition
to the Critical Video Editions series is
Opera in Video.
The collection contains
250 of the most important opera
performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews,
and documentaries, and then delivered online through streaming video.
Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera
houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. |
Dance in
Video Is Now Live
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Dance in
Video, a revolutionary online collection that brings a new dimension
to nearly all aspects of performance studies and production history.
Dance in Video
captures performances from the stage and brings them directly to your
computer screen through online streaming video—including 250 dance
productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and
companies of the twentieth century. |
Images of the American Civil War
is Live!
We are pleased to announce the beta release
of the highly anticipated
Images of the
American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera.
This new collection At
completion, the collection will present 75,000 images from the social,
military, and political perspectives of the nineteenth-century.
Access to this collection is free through the end of July. |
MARC Records Available Online
Libraries can now download MARC records for their Alexander Street
collections. Book-level and product-level records are available
and are free of charge. For more information visit
http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. |
Free Music Downloads
Every two weeks, we take one complete work from
Classical Music Library and make it available for download as a
MP3 or WMA file. This
week:
Mozart's
Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310. |
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Featured
 Opera
in Video
A
dynamic and powerful resource for performers, researchers, and
students containing 250 of the most important opera
performances.
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 Dance
in VideoDiscover
and revisit great performances and learn from the dancers,
choreographers, and directors who have perfected the craft.
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 Twentieth
Century Advice Literature
150,000 pages of conduct,
behavioral, advice, and etiquette literature, revealing how
society grappled with
changes in cultural values and
behaviors.
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