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8/07
CHOICE:
Black DramaHeavy praise for Alexander Street's
now complete, Black Drama from R.J. Cirasa of Kean University.
Among the highlights are historical and contemporary works, by
authors from America and the African diaspora.
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8/07
CHOICE:
Theatre in VideoCompliments are paid to the
Theatre In Video user interface, search features, and more.
D.M. Dayton calls it "pure viewing pleasure" before summing up with
a very strong rating for Alexander Street's first streaming video
product.
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7/07
CHOICE:
The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
This full-text, primary source database is described as, "an
indispensable tool for graduate students and professors researching
the religious thought of this period, whether they are historians or
students of theology/spirituality" by J. Gresham of Kenrick-Glennon
Seminary.
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11/06
JOURNAL
OF AMERICAN STUDIES REVIEWS: WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
IN THE U.S.
In the Journal of American
Studies, Margaret Walsh of the University of Nottingham
discusses the breadth of Women and Social Movements in the U.S.
and the the multitude of research and teaching possibilities the
database facilitates. Walsh, a scholar of U.S. history, says of Alexander
Street’s Women and Social Movements in the U.S. that it “not
only offers, but also goes beyond, many of the electronic
collections available to inform students and lecturers alike about
the importance of women and women’s issues in the American past.” |
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6/06
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY REVIEWS: NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN'S LETTERS AND
DAIRIES: COLONIAL TIMES TO 1950
Ann Fabian of Rutgers University suggests the use of North American
Women's Letters and Diaries as a teaching tool. "The compilers have included images of original documents and brief biographical sketches of a number of authors. Students impatient with slow work in the archives may take real pleasure in the sense of discovery the site allows."
The scaled pricing of this product makes it accessible to
institutions of all sizes, and a strong tool for educators and
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3/06
REFERENCE
REVIEWS: CLASSICAL MUSIC LIBRARY
Academic libraries that support even small music programmes should
strongly consider subscribing to Classical Music Library. It is an
absolute bargain at current prices. A few alternatives to Classical
Music Library are available, but as of this writing, they do not
appear to be as education-oriented or user-friendly.
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3/06
LIBRARY JOURNAL:
IN THE FIRST PERSON CALLED A "BEST REFERENCE DATABASE OF 2005"
Cheryl LaGuardia says that In the First Person "makes the list
for sheer originality of purpose. This library index allows users to
perform field and keyword searches across letters, diaries, oral
histories, memoirs, and autobiographies available for free online
and through Alexander Street databases. It refers researchers to
350,000 pages of full text and 3500 collections of material covering
400 years - and did I mention? it's free!
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1/06
CHOICE:
SMITHSONIAN GLOBAL SOUND FOR LIBRARIES®
The value of the recordings included in this product is
already well-known: Moses Asch's Folkways label, and its
successor Smithsonian Folkways, released field recordings of
music from around the world, spoken performances, and all
manner of natural and man-made sounds. In addition to almost
29,000 tracks from Folkways, Smithsonian
Global Sound for Libraries includes 6,000-plus recordings
from smaller labels.
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11/05
KIRKUS
REVIEWS:
SMITHSONIAN GLOBAL SOUND FOR LIBRARIES®
With 35,000 tracks from 138 different
countries, Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries,
from online-only reference publisher Alexander Street Press,
offers music for students and those simply curious about parts
of the world that are not represented on iTunes—an
impressive, easy-to-use database of streaming folk music,
along with some blues, jazz and children’s songs.
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8/05
CHOICE:
NORTH AMERICAN IMMIGRANT LETTERS, DIARIES, AND ORAL HISTORIES
Both
beginning researchers and advanced scholars will benefit from
this site’s collection of primary and secondary documents,
which take various formats—e.g., immigration guidebooks,
audio interviews, and anti-immigration cartoons from Puck,
Harper’s Weekly and Judge’s Library.
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8/05
CHOICE:
NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN'S DRAMA
This
newly released electronic database comprises more than 1,500
full text plays written by women from the
U.S.
and
Canada
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Edited by noted feminist performance scholars such as
Peggy Phelan and Janet Brown, this rich resource includes
works ranging from Colonial drama to 19th-century
melodrama to contemporary performance art.
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8/05
CHOICE:
AMERICAN FILM SCRIPTS
Both
film scholars and casual users will find much of interest
here, from research to information useful to those learning
the art and crafty of filmmaking...The
site is handsomely constructed and provides a handy guided
tour of its multiple departments.
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8/05
CHOICE:
BLACK DRAMA
Beyond
its textual content, the features that most distinguish this
site are its flexible, detailed, and comprehensive search
features, indexing, and cross-links.
Virtually every conceivable element or aspect of each
play (characters, themes, scenes, dates of composition,
productions, etc.) is indexed in detail for historical
references, personal events, sexual orientation, and
geographic location.
Combined with the elegantly simple yet powerful search
templates, this detailed indexing permits one to accomplish
marvels.
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8/05
CHOICE:
WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Additional
databases from Alexander Street Press are always welcome to
teachers, students, historians, librarians, and researchers.
ASP has the cleanest, most responsive search apparatus
in the business.
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05/19/05
THE
CHARLESTON ADVISOR: ORAL HISTORY ONLINE
COMPOSITE SCORE: 4 3/8 STARS (OUT OF A POSSIBLE 5 STARS)
CONTENT: 5 STARS
Alexander Street Press is actively searching for and adding
new oral history collections to Oral History Online with every
quarterly database release. Oral History Online takes
the wealth of available oral history collections and provides
access for researchers through detailed and accurate
indexing. It provides much needed and previously
unavailable comprehensive electronic indexing and controlled
vocabulary for oral history research.
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04/05
CHOICE:
BLACK THOUGHT AND CULTURE
Another notable resource from Alexander Street, this site
connects students and scholars with non-fiction works by
leading African Americans. The materials, currently
619 sources by 264 authors, document "the development
of African American thought from its beginnings to the
present" and support research in the humanities and
social sciences.
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2005
LIBRARY
JOURNAL: CLASSICAL MUSIC LIBRARY NAMED A "BEST
REFERENCE DATABASE OF 2004"
Classical Music Library is a
breakthrough resource that lets you glimpse what can happen when
imaginative thinking and technology come together. An extensive
collection of some 17,000 musical tracks that can be selected and
streamed on demand, supplemented by a solid body of music-related
reference material, Classical Music Library is a uniquely
self-contained resource for teachers, students, librarians, and
anyone interested in exploring classical music.
--Golderman & Connolly, NC Spring 2004
See more on
Classical Music Library.
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09/01/04
LIBRARY
JOURNAL: LIBRARY JOURNAL LAUDS LATINO LITERATURE
CAN YOU AND YOUR PATRONS USE IT? The file is beautifully
designed with humanistic information seeking proclivities
in mind.
But
it also allows
expert
searchers to work their electronic magic, as well ... This
content is rich and vitally needed yet highly elusive.
Alexander Street has focused on an area of scholarship
long overdue for attention. ˇFelicitaciones!
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06/01/04
LIBRARY
JOURNAL: ORAL HISTORY FINALLY GETS ITS DUE
HOW GOOD IS IT? Sorry to set the bar
so high the first column out, but this is a ten. Even the
Help functions are fantastic. Alexander Street has included
so much useful information, and made it so intelligently
accessible, it’s hard to imagine how the file can
be made better…
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04/21/04
REFERENCE
REVIEWS: NORTH AMERICAN IMMIGRANT LETTERS AND DIARIES
Current and ongoing interest in ethnic history and immigration
studies from the perspective of the immigrants themselves,
in oral and written formats, makes this database a valuable
resource for students and scholars in the areas of history, folklore, political
science, and
sociology, among others. When complete, this database will provide users access
to a wealth of primary
sources, many not
easily accessible or accessible at all in other formats or venues. The ability
to search one or multiple texts in varied and sophisticated ways is the reason
this database will appeal
to many who have used
the microform collections of the Ellis Island Oral History Project or Manuscript
Autobiographies from
the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. Alone, or in
conjunction with these
other research collections in American immigration, North American Immigrant
Letters and Diaries is highly recommended
for all academic and
research libraries.
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01/01/04
BLACK
DRAMA NAMED "OUTSTANDING
ACADEMIC TITLE, 2003" BY CHOICE MAGAZINE
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07/01/03
REFERENCE
REVIEWS: AMERICAN FILM SCRIPTS ONLINE
"This unique resource is projected to become even more
useful in the near future as plans proceed to increase
to 1,000 the total number of film scripts available. Plans
are also in the progress to provide digitized facsimiles
of the original scripts. A useful research tool for large
universities with a research interest in film studies or
popular culture."
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11/15/03
REFERENCE
REVIEWS: ASIAN AMERICAN DRAMA
...Asian American Drama will be a highly useful resource
for institutions with
programmes in literature, drama, and history, and comes strongly
recommended...
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11/15/03
REFERENCE
REVIEWS: EARLY ENCOUNTERS IN NORTH AMERICA: Peoples,
Cultures, and the
Environment
...an excellent resource for teaching research methods,
especially for smaller schools lacking extensive American
history
collections. It could also be used in conjunction with
historical microform collections. Early Encounters
in North America is recommended for libraries supporting
serious research in
history, social
sciences and environmental history...
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11/15/03
LIBRARY JOURNAL
REVIEWS WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES,
1600 - 2000
Alexander Street Press has teamed with scholars from the State
University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton’s Center
for the Historical Study of Women and Gender to create a new
collaborative model that will keep a women’s studies
project alive and make an important web site broadly accessible.
Alexander Street is providing funding support, along with its
Semantic Indexing, to produce this enhanced file. The company
hopes it will signal a new trend in publisher/scholar collaborations... |
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8/1/03
ALEXANDER
STREET PRESS REVIEWED IN THE AMERICAN STUDIES LIBRARY
NEWSLETTER
A review by Simon P. Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American
Studies,
University of Glasgow
Alexander Street Press was founded in 2000, and has rapidly
emerged as one of the leading producers of digitised collections
in the humanities. It is increasingly common for publishers
and libraries to digitise collections of manuscripts and printed
materials, but for both teaching and research the Alexander
Street Press publications are amongst the best I have encountered.
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