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Dear friends,

Earlier this year, Women and Social Movements, a top website in Women’s Studies with over 30,000 visits per month, was facing a familiar dilemma: how could they continue to expand the valuable resources on their site despite the end of their funding?

Professors Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar launched one of the most heavily visited women’s studies websites in the world six years ago, and kept it growing with a series of grants. As the end of the grants approached, the project faced being immobilized or terminated.

The solution to the dilemma was a dramatic new way of working with publishers. Alexander Street Press extended a commercial hand and worked with SUNY scholars to develop a larger, subscription-based version of the site that would generate the much-needed funds. Women and Social Movements would not only continue, but take on new form.

For example, Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ will offer users much deeper access to the website’s document projects, introductions, bibliographies, Dictionary of Social Movements, lesson plans, and other valuable resources. Fourteen scholars from across the country who comprise the site’s editorial board will continue to select new materials for inclusion, and a large portion of the materials on the existing site will remain freely available after the launch of the subscription-based version.

You’re invited to a free preview of the product of this breakthrough collaboration. From October 15, 2003 to January 15, 2004, Alexander Street Press will open its servers to libraries and research organizations around the world to enjoy 90 days of free and open access to Women and Social Movements: 1600 to 2000. No registration required! Plus, subscriptions ordered before January 1, 2004 will be extended 3 months, for no additional charge.

Please visit http://womhist.binghamton.edu or http://alexanderstreet.com for information on how you can access this resource for free. For more information on the project, please contact Jennifer Heffelfinger, Manager of Marketing and Public Relations, at 800-889-5937, ext. 5, or by email, jheffelfinger@alexanderstreet.com.

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