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Try our new video products free for the month of April!

There's a lot in store for Alexander Street video this year: we'll be growing to 10,000 titles, adding a new cross-discipline video platform, and offering individual streaming titles.

Kicking things off, we've just released three new collections: Filmakers Library Online; Education in Video; and Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II. You can access all three of these and explore them for yourself until April 30. Register here to get started!

For more information about Alexander Street video, or to request extended trial access, email [email protected].

Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II is now live!

Our newest online collection, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II, is now live! The second volume of Alexander Street Press's award-winning Counseling and Therapy in Video features more than 300 additional hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.

This collection features world-renowned therapists such as Albert Ellis, Phil Zimbardo, Allen Ivey, John Norcross, Arnold Lazarus, Otto Kernberg, Violet Oaklander, and many others, demonstrating their methods in true-to-life situations. Spanning dozens of therapeutic methods, diagnoses, and cultural groups, this collection updates and expands upon the first, and taken together,the two editions provide more than 700 hours of video.

To request a free trial or price quote for your library, email [email protected].

Women and Social Movements, International is now live!

Our newest online collection, Women and Social Movements, International—1840 to Present, is now live. With more than 150,000 pages, drawn from over 300 sources, Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection that provides an unparalleled look at the ways that women's social movements shaped the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.

Women's international organizations have focused on issues related to peace, poverty, child labor, literacy, disease prevention, and global inequality. By exploring traditions of women's activism, we can reach a full understanding of modern society and history. Women and Social Movements, International provides an unparalleled survey of how women's struggles against gendered inequalities promoted their engagement with other issues over time and across cultures. Faced with resistance from national political parties and organizations in the 19th and 20th centuries, women created international organizations where they pioneered policies that were adopted by national and international governing bodies. For example:

• President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points built on resolutions adopted by the Women's Peace Conference at The Hague in 1915.
• Madeleine Z. Doty, correspondent for Good Housekeeping in Moscow during the Russian Revolution, shaped the policies of the League of Nations in the 1920s.
• Minerva Bernardino of the Dominican Republic helped launch the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Women and Social Movements, International brings a fresh understanding of the world we inherited from these women and their organizations with journals, manuscripts, letters, photographs, diaries, and ephemera; reports from different national committees (which facilitate comparison and multiple perspectives); and links to twenty thousand additional pages of valuable primary resources on the Web. Much of this material is still in copyright and previously-unpublished, and the collection is backed by a global editorial board of 130 leading scholars.

To request a free trial or price quote for your library, email [email protected].

We've joined forces with Filmakers Library!

Filmakers Library has been bringing high-quality, issue-based documentaries to the education market for more than forty years. Some of its award-winning titles include Original Intent: The Battle for America; Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Prison Lullabies; The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark; and Muslims in Love. And earlier this month, we made an exciting announcement: Alexander Street has acquired Filmakers Library.

A little later this year, we'll be bringing you their entire library as a subscription-based streaming video database called Filmakers Library Online, and making it possible for libraries to order and instantly stream individual Filmakers Library films.

For more information, check out the full press release here.

Three new streaming video collections

Alexander Street is launching three new streaming video collections by the end of 2010!

Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. More than 1,000 video titles totaling 750+ hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms give your education students a way to observe the intricacies of behavior, tone, facial expression, and body language that define effective teaching styles. The collection's wealth of course, study, and discussion guides; assessment checklists; and themed playlists give your education faculty ready-to-use teaching tools.

World History in Video: English-Language Documentaries will give faculty, students, and history lovers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. A rich survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall, World History in Video is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage delivers the sights, sounds, artifacts, and histories from around the world straight to your desktop.

Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II both updates and expands upon the first collection, with special emphasis on contemporary topics such as family therapy, child therapy, geriatric therapy, play therapy, weight control and eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, sex therapy, culturally sensitive therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy.

The second volume of Alexander Street Press’s award-winning Counseling and Therapy in Video will feature more than 300 additional hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.

Sign up now to receive Sneak Peek access to these collections as soon as they are launched. You can also read the press release here.

If you'd like more information, or if you'd like to request a trial or price quote for your library, please email [email protected].

Try Underground and Independent Comics for free

The release of Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels has generated a lot of buzz in both the comics and library communities. From tweets to blog posts, everyone seems to be talking about the first scholarly, primary source collection devoted to the study of adult comics.

Now you can try Underground and Independent Comics for yourself. Cheryl LaGuardia's E-Views blog is offering free access to the collection through July 15th. You can also read the Alexander Street press release here.

If your library would like a price quote or extended trial access, please email [email protected].

Advisory Roundtables at ALA

If you're heading to ALA in Washington, D.C., why not give our editors 45 minutes of your time at one of our advisory roundtable sessions? Our editors host these informal gatherings in order to get feedback and suggestions on new and forthcoming collections. We're hosting five different sessions, and all are conveniently located at the convention center or in ALA hotels no more than 2 blocks away. In exchange for your time we'll give you the opportunity to win a one-year subscription.

Join us at one or more of the following:

• Alexander Street’s Comics and Graphic Novels Roundtable
• What’s New in Alexander Street Video
• “On the Couch” with Alexander Street: Counseling and Therapy Advisory Roundtable
• Going Global: Alexander Street’s History in Video Advisory Roundtable
• Alexander Street’s Music Advisory Roundtable

You can learn more about all five session and RSVP here.

And don't forget to stop by booth #3813 in the exhibit hall!

Undergound and Independent Comics is live!

Our newest online collection, Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is now live. Quickly growing to include more than 75,000 pages of primary materials and 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles, Underground and Independent Comics is the first-ever scholarly, primary-source collection dedicated to the study of adult comic books and graphic novels.

Access the collection now, registration free, through Friday May 21st!

URL - http://comx.alexanderstreet.com
username: comics
password: sneakpeek

Beginning with the works that inspired the first underground comix from the 1960s and encompassing modern sequential artists such as Dan Clowes and Los Bros. Hernandez, Underground and Independent Comics shows the evolution and development of an art form. From the shocking and explicit work of young artists exploring newfound freedoms to intricate and beautiful designs of aesthetic craftsmanship, the comic book has shown itself to be a medium capable of both the offensive and the sublime.
 
Comics have become an increasingly popular area of academic study, and yet the typical library has only a small selection of graphic novels in the catalog. Underground and Independent Comics solves this problem, collecting thousands of comics—many extremely rare and hard to find—in one, easy-to-use online collection.
 
Included are influential works of visionaries such as Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman; underground artists including Gilbert Shelton, Trina Robbins, and Vaughn Bode; and modern masters such as Peter Bagge, Kim Deitch, and Dave Sim. The collection includes original material from the 1950s to today along with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines, including The Comics Journal.

To request a free trial or price quote for your library, email [email protected].

Coming soon - World History in Video

The latest streaming video collection from Alexander Street, World History in Video: English-Language Documentaries will give faculty, students, and history lovers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. A rich survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall, World History in Video is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage delivers the sights, sounds, artifacts, and histories from around the world straight to your desktop.

Learn more about World History in Video and sign up now for sneak peek access to the collection as soon as it's launched.

Sneak peek access to Ethnographic Video Online

Just launched, it's Alexander Street's newest streaming video collection—Ethnographic Video Online.

Quickly growing to include more than 1,000 of the most frequently used films in anthropology courses, Ethnographic Video Online includes classic works from the pioneers of ethnographic film, including Robert Flaherty, Timothy Asch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Jean Rouch, and many more—together with contemporary works by innovative filmmakers from around the world.

Access it now, registration-free, through Friday, March 12th.
 
URL: http://anth.alexanderstreet.com
 
username: ethnography
 
password: sneakpeek

A comprehensive online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior and the largest, most affordable streaming video collection of its kind, Ethnographic Video Online will contain more than 750 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries produced by leading video producers in the discipline; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Wherever possible, videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing, full-text materials. Publishing partners include the leading video content providers in the discipline, including Documentary Educational Resources (DER).

Learn more about Ethnographic Video Online here.
 
Request a price quote or an institution-wide trial by emailing [email protected].