Alexander Street Press, in partnership with scholars from University of California at Davis and University of Nebraska, has just released Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. The electronic database presents the poems of more than fifty women whose works were important and well known in their time, but absent from bibliographies today.

“This is a new kind of product – created by academics for academics. Libraries will feel rewarded by our partnership with Nancy Kushigian, English Literature Librarian and UC-Davis, and Stephen Behrendt, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at University of Nebraska, who compiled the collection of primary works and wrote and assembled dozens of scholarly essays to aid in the study of the poems,” says Eileen Lawrence, Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Alexander Street. “Together with Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing and interface, users can find answers that otherwise would be impossible to uncover.”

Kushigian and Behrendt point to a critical introduction to the collection, a major critical bibliography of more than 250 works, a rich listing of related websites, and thirty-five critical essays written by leading academics. “These tools, combined with the now rare and inaccessible primary works, make Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period an especially rich resource for scholars,” says Kushigian.

Alexander Street Press, L.L.C., is an academic publisher of electronic full-text databases in the humanities and social sciences. Founded in June 2000, the company publishes collections in history, literature, women’s studies, sociology, ethnic and diversity studies, popular culture, film studies, the arts, and other areas. Alexander Street databases have won recognition as the “Best New Product” award from The Charleston Advisor, the Library Journal “Best Reference Resources of 2001” list, and other notice. Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing allows users to answer questions that were previously impossible to ask. Alexander Street Press is located in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Editors: For additional information on Alexander Street Press and its products, please contact Eileen Lawrence, vice president of sales and marketing, 800-889-5937, or lawrence@alexanderstreet.com, or visit http://alexanderstreet.com.