Alexander Street partnering with NINES

Alexander Street is partnering with Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (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.

Their aim:

• Serve as a peer-reviewing body for digital work in the long nineteenth-century (1770-1920), British and American
• Support scholars’ priorities and best practices in the creation of digital research materials
• 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.

We’re pleased to announce that several core Alexander Street Press nineteenth century collections are now searchable via the NINES site, including:

• Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
• The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
• Coming soon, we will add The Romantic Era Redefined.

These Alexander Street collections are now completely cross-searchable within the NINES interface. Access to Alexander Street search results at the document level are available only to institutions subscribing to the collections, but NINES users are able to view contextual snippets.

To give you some sense of the scope of the project, here’s a saved search showing all of our Civil War Letters and Diaries material: http://www.nines.org/search/saved?user=DWheeles&name=cwld.

Alexander Street joins ProQuest, JSTOR, and many other leading publishers in indexing important nineteenth-century primary materials through the NINES project—it’s just one of the things we’re doing to ensure that scholars can find and access these important primary materials.