Open access to American History in Video                                  

The largest, most affordable collection of history video, streamed to your desktop—freely accessible through April 16th!

"Based on content, design, and price, this product is a solid ten. It tops any other similarly themed resource in its field and, at this price, is an amazing deal. . . . This is a product I wish every library in the United States could make accessible to its researchers, from elementary-school children to history scholars, and everybody in between. Resoundingly recommended." —Library Journal, August 15, 2009

Booklist 2009 Editors' Choice Best Reference

Library Journal 2009 Best Reference

• Quickly growing to 5,000 complete newsreels and documentaries totaling 2,000 hours.
• Synchronized, scrolling full-text transcripts for every video.
• High-quality, full-screen, fast-streaming video and no special software required.
• Powerful playlist functionality and clip-making tools.
• Subscriptions start at just $775 a year for K-12 libraries and at $995 for academic libraries. Also available for one-time purchase.
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Ethnographic Video Online is live!

A visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video.

Ethnographic Video Online is live, and is quickly growing to more than 750 hours of the most frequently used videos in anthropology classrooms, including:

• Classic documentaries by world-famous pioneers in the field, including Edward Curtis, Robert Flaherty, John Marshall, Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch.

• Contemporary films from the most innovative ethnographic documentary-makers world-wide.

• Indigenous media—from early experiments to modern-day works.

• Previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field, which will open up new possibilities for research and study in the discipline.

• Related materials including field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, seminal articles, and study guides.

Sneak Peek access to Ethnographic Video Online is currently available through March 12th.

For more information, and to request a price quote or trial for your library, email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

We’ve just announced that our entire suite of Music Online listening collections—including Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, American Song, and Contemporary World Music—will triple in size in 2010, growing from 250,000 to more than 750,000 recordings. The best part about it is that we’re not increasing prices! Learn more here or email sales@alexanderstreet.com for trial and pricing details.

With 60,000 recordings, Jazz Music Library is already the largest online collection of streaming jazz available anywhere—and the only online collection to feature the top jazz music labels—including Verve, Concord, A&M, Audiophile, Universal, and more. By December it will include more than 120,000 recordings. New lower prices and unlimited access for all subscribers (no SU limits!) make Jazz Music Library a collection that even libraries with very tight budgets can afford. Learn more about Jazz Music Library and our new lower price points—the largest number of tracks, the lowest price. And the same new low prices apply to American Song and Contemporary World Music. Email sales@alexanderstreet.com for trial and pricing details.

March is Women's History Month, and to celebrate we've made the popular online collection, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition, freely accessible for the entire month. A mainstay for women’s history research and teaching in universities worldwide, this online collection is edited by Professors Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin of SUNY Binghamton. It’s an extensive collection of primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and Web-site reviews. To access Women and Social Movements, simply go to http://wass.alexanderstreet.com.

Read the press release here.