Digital resources: Alexander Street Press to launch five new online collections for scholars and students

Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announced plans to publish five new online collections for scholars and students in the final quarter of 2011.  

“Nursing Education in Video” is an online collection of streaming video for the training and professional development of nurses and nursing assistants. “Classical Music in Video” will include 1,500 full-length video titles, 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with master classes and interviews with master teachers from around the world. “Classical Scores Library: Volume II” will include 200,000 pages focusing on in-copyright material from major living contemporary composers around the world as well as many works not represented in Alexander Street’s first volume of scores. “Anthropology Online” brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Cross-searchable with Alexander Street’s “Ethnographic Video Online”, “Anthropology Online” provides sociologists, anthropologists, cultural historians, and others with complete works of the key practitioners and theorists alike throughout the discipline. The final release slated for 2011 is “Australian and New Zealand Letters and Diaries”, a semantically indexed, full-text collection of more than 150,000 pages that tells the stories of immigrants as they migrated to the new world that was Australia and New Zealand between 1788 and 1922.

The publisher offers a Sneak Peek program: anyone interested may register to get a username and password at launch, good for 48 hours of free access to the new collections. Qualified libraries, universities, scholars, and faculty members may request an additional month of institution-wide free trial access.

Alexander Street Press publishing company was founded in 2000 with a mission of publishing digital collections in the humanities and social sciences.