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For Immediate Release
Alexandria, VA – March 22, 2007
Reviews are welcome.
Please contact Eileen Lawrence, Vice President, Sales
and Marketing
lawrence@alexanderstreet.com or 800-889-5937 ext. 211
Alexander Street Press acquires HarpWeek (Harper’s
Weekly 1857-1912)
and Lincoln and the Civil War
Alexander Street Press today acquired the library
rights to two major products from John Adler, Founder and President
of HarpWeek LLC -- Harper’s Weekly: 1857-1912 and
Lincoln and the Civil War.com. The quality of both these
databases resulted in John Adler’s winning the prestigious E-Lincoln
Prize.
HarpWeek (Harper’s Weekly: 1857-1912) was
developed and published from 1997 through 2005. It was one of the
first archival newspapers to be put up in electronic form and
remains a gold standard for the high quality of its manual indexing,
full text, and scans. Moreover, it has been supplemented with some
30 Web sites that provide contextual introductions and commentary
for selected works within the file. This, along with the importance
of the original publication, has led the database to be used heavily
in more than 500 libraries around the world.
Developed in anticipation of the 200th anniversary of
Lincoln’s birth in 1809, the Lincoln and the Civil War
database contains 49 periodicals – all published between 1860 and
1865 – sourced from 17 museum, library, and private collections,
totaling more than 65,000 pages. For the first time, all known
unique copies of publications such as Southern Illustrated News
and Douglass’ Monthly can be viewed and searched together.
Every page was custom scanned to ensure the highest quality in the
many images.
John Adler said, “For the past twelve years, our
HarpWeek team of academic scholars carefully created these
databases. However, I will be 80 later this year, and it is time to
put the resources into younger hands. We have great respect for what
Alexander Street Press has accomplished in only seven years, and
know that our E-Lincoln Prize-winning products will fare well under
their auspices.”
Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President of Alexander Street
Press, said, “These files are of the highest quality and utility.
They’re essential to the study of their respective time periods. We
are privileged to have them in our portfolio and plan to continue
John’s work by making them even more useful and adding still more
content and features.”
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Alexander Street Press, L.L.C., is an academic
publisher of electronic full-text databases in the humanities,
social sciences, and music. Founded in July 2000, the company
publishes collections in history, literature, music, psychology,
sociology, drama, film, performing arts, black history, women’s
history, diversity studies, and other areas. Alexander Street Press
is located in Alexandria, Virginia.
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its products, please contact Eileen Lawrence, vice president of
sales and marketing, 800-889-5937 ext. 211 or
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