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MARC records available for The Romantic Era Redefined

The first set of book-level MARC records for The Romantic Era Redefined has just been released, and is available for download at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. This set contains 101 records representing 245 volumes, and records are available in both MARC8 and UTF8 formats.

The Romantic Era Redefined is a growing collection, and supplemental MARC record sets will be released in the future. More information about this set can be found in the .txt file accompanying the records themselves.

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.

Free trial access during Hispanic Heritage Month

In conjunction with Cheryl LaGuardia's e-Views blog on LibraryJournal.com, we are offering free trial access to three of our online collections during Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15).

Enjoy unlimited access to:

• Caribbean Literature
• Latin American Women Writers
• Latino Literature

For access information and login credentials, visit the e-Views blog today.

The Romantic Era Redefined is live!

Through a partnership with London-based publisher Pickering & Chatto, students and scholars have access to important primary texts for the study of Romantic-era literature and social history—with more than 87,000 pages of Pickering & Chatto's esteemed critical editions. The collection also includes additional content from other publishers, archives, the leading Romanticism journal, The Wordsworth Circle, and other sources never-before-available online. Besides the literature—poetry, novels, short fiction, and drama—there are letters, diaries, conduct literature, speeches, travel narratives, political writings, philosophical works, theological and sociological writings, and more. Featuring work from writers in Britain, the British Empire, and North America, the collection is particularly strong in its coverage of the Romantic Era's "second generation," which spans the years from 1800 to 1830. The Romantic Era Redefined brings something distinctly new to academic study, with access to overlooked and inaccessible important works.

To request a price quote or a free trial for your library, please email [email protected]. More information about The Romantic Era Redefined can be found on our Web site.

Blog Banter

The blogoshere is buzzing with news of Alexander Street.  See what bloggers are saying about our electronic collections.

"Have you ever found a book written a long time ago and thought, 'Times sure have changed…'? Try an entire database"

- The University Library Blog
(University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) on Twentieth Century Advice Literature

"If you’re doing research on the late 1800s and the turn of the century, then you’ll definitely want to check out The Gilded Age. Focusing on the time period of 1865-1902, the collection features primary source documents on hot topics of the time, such as race, immigration and labor. It also includes scholarly commentary to supplement the materials."

- The University Library Blog
(University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) on The Gilded Age

"There is a useful new online library resource available at Dal: Theatre in Video, which hosts a number of film or TV productions of famous plays."

- Dr Nicol's Blog
(Dalhousie University) on Theatre in Video

"Reyes Cardenas’ writings have been published in various places . . . They are available in ebook form from Alexander Street Press."

- Xican@ Poetry Daily
on Latino Literature

You can also learn how students and instructors are using Opera in Video at Wellesley College. Read more on our Music blog.