Alexander Street Press News and Updates

White Paper Available on Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts

Alexander Street Press and SAGE Publications are pleased to announce that a new white paper, Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works: A Resource for Mental Health Educators and Practitioners, is now freely available at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/psyc.htm. Simply click on “Download the White Paper” for your own PDF version.

The paper contextualizes Alexander Street’s Counseling and Psychotherapy collection for our new and existing customers and end users. It’s an excellent primer that explains how students and researchers can use the collection to help improve their understanding of treatments, therapy practices and counselor training. This is a helpful resource for all research organizations whose task is to make materials available to counseling and psychotherapy students and practitioners.

For more information or to set up a trial for your institution please contact us.

Oliver Brearey, Editor, Alexander Street Press

ALA Roundtables

If you are a librarian attending the American Library Association Annual Meeting and want the inside scoop on streaming audio and video, then you won't want to miss our roundtables.

Alexander Street will host three roundtables at ALA in Anaheim next month on Monday, June 30th and we hope you’ll attend at least one of them.

Why attend an Alexander Street Roundtable?

Our editors host these informal gatherings in order to get feedback from a small group of trusted customers on our new and soon-to-be-released collections.  We need your input!

In exchange for your time and the benefit of your expert opinion, we give you the opportunity to win a one-year subscription—and with just 25 attendees per session, the odds aren't bad!

So come, take a breather from the ALA rush and bustle, have a cup of tea or coffee, and learn about our exciting new streaming audio and video collections in theatre, dance, and opera—and forthcoming collections you’ll be among the first to know about.

Space is limited so please RSVP now.

Celebrate Decoration Day!

To many of us, Memorial Day means cookouts, swimming, and the beginning of summer.  Others take a moment of silence to remember the veterans who fought and died for our country.  But few of us may know the origins of the holiday.  Using Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online we learn that this day for remembering fallen soldiers was originally termed Decoration Day, and its inception wasn't without controversy.

Images of the American Civil War is live

We are excited to announce the beta release of the highly anticipated Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera.  This new online collection presents the dramatic imagery of nineteenth-century Americana as experienced from the social, political, and military perspectives.

Cheryl LaGuardia, author of the E-Views blog on LibraryJournal.com, notes the collection's robust search capabilities and says, "it's an important, fascinating collection of photos and ephemera." 

At completion, Images of the American Civil War will contain 75,000 images allowing researchers and students to see the moments that occurred as the nation stood divided. 

Access to Images of the American Civil War is open through June 30th as part of our extended Civil War open access period.  For more details visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/resources/civilwar.access.htm.

MLA and Alexander Street Announce Agreement

Alexander Street Press and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) today announced an agreement as part of the MLA’s Reference Online programme for English public libraries. The agreement will give participating libraries access for their users to Alexander Street’s acclaimed  Music Online: Listening, and Music Online: Reference at discounted rates.

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council works with the nine regional agencies in the MLA Partnership to improve people’s lives by building knowledge, supporting learning, inspiring creativity and celebrating identity. The Partnership acts collectively for the benefit of the sector and the public, leading the transformation of museums, libraries and archives for the future. For more information, visit www.mla.gov.uk.

Please email Hayley Harris (hharris@alexanderstreet.com), Alexander Street’s Sales Director for the UK and Ireland, if you would like additional information about Alexander Street’s Music Online products.

Open Access is Back

Due to the many trial requests and wonderful feedback we received in April, Alexander Street is once again opening access to The American Civil War Online, our comprehensive series of online Civil War collections.  Through June 30th you can enjoy free access to these popular online resources. No registration is required and you can begin exploring immediately.

Additionally, we will be launching the beta-version of Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters and Ephemera in the next few days.  As part of The American Civil War Online, this brand new collections will be included in our open access offer.

Start your research now by going to http://alexanderstreet.com/resources/civilwar.access.htm.

Important Blog Updates

We are in the process of updating and enhancing the Alexander Street Press blog sites.  We have taken steps to make our RSS feeds compatible with a wider range of readers and browsers.  If you currently subscribe to the News and Updates feed you may want to update your feed address.

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World Literature Online is now Alexander Street Literature

The online collection formerly known as World Literature Online has been renamed Alexander Street Literature.  The URL and any bookmarks you have made will not be affected, but libraries should update their catalogs and Web sites to reflect the new title.

Year-End Specials: Pre-Publication Discounts Available Now

If your library has year-end money, there’s still time (but not much time) to take advantage of our pre-publication discounts for many Alexander Street collections.

Order by June 30th to receive the pre-publication discount. These collections are available for outright purchase of perpetual rights or via annual subscription. Discounted collections include:

Twentieth Century Advice Literature 
The Romantic Era Redefined
The Gilded Age
The American Civil War Research Database
Black Drama: Second Edition
The Sixties
Images of the American Civil War
Manuscript Women’s Letters and Diaries
Radio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection
                          Opera in Video
                          Dance in Video

Click on the catalog above, or go to http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/discnew.htm for a complete list of Alexander Street collections. 

Please contact us for additional discount offers.

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online is Live

I am pleased to announce that Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online is now live. Seamlessly browse and cross-search all of Alexander Street's letter and diary collections, as well as search personal narrative materials that are freely available on the web. Users will experience the past viscerally—through personal and private writings presented as searchable full-text documents, audio files, images, and online videos. Letters and Diaries Online is the most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created, and the the ideal starting point for historians, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to explore and analyze human experiences.

Learn more about this unique resource and contact sales@alexanderstreet.com to find out how Letters and Diaries Online can be a part of your library.  Free trials are also available.