Alexander Street Press is a publisher of award-winning, online collections and streaming video for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our collections and films are available to library and educational institutions through annual subscription or a one-time purchase of perpetual rights.
Alexander Street Press offers comprehensive online collections across disciplines, including anthropology, black studies, counseling and therapy, drama, education, literature, music, religion, performing arts, social and cultural history performing arts, and women's studies.
The VAST: Academic Video Online subscription brings thousands of multidisciplinary, full-length videos in a cross-searchable interface into the library.
Individual videos spanning the disciplines can be downloaded instantly through the streaming video platform, or ordered as DVDs. http://academicvideostore.com.
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On May 4, 2010 Alexander Street Press and Library Journal hosted a webcast for librarians on video delivery methods and services. "Video in the Library: Trends and Best Practices" featured Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Arizona State University's deg farrelly, and Widener Library's Cheryl LaGuardia of Harvard University.
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Alexander Street Press, LLC has released two new collections: Classical Scores Library: Volume II and Anthropology Online. Both resources are available immediately. Product trials and pricing information is available for qualified faculty and library staff.
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Posted Jan 04, 2012
With the online launch in October of The Legacy Project, an educational video series that features original interviews with Stephen Sondheim, Edward Albee, and eight other legends of American theater, the series' publisher, Alexander Street Press, contributed a substantial amount of new, firsthand documentation of the creative processes of these cultural icons to the historical record. But the fact that the collection is fully accessible through an online streaming platform is substantial in and of itself, and it says something significant about the current state of academic publishing and the direction in which the industry is headed.
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Posted Nov 09, 2011
Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, added The Forgotten Man: Private Bradley Manning and the Wikileaks Controversy to its catalog. The film details the story behind Private Manning, the alleged source of the classified documents that were published by WikiLeaks.
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Posted Oct 06, 2011
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announced plans to launch an integrated online repository of academic video titles. Alexander Street plans to expand its offerings to include more than 10,000 titles in 2011, followed by a further expansion to 20,000 titles by 2013. The integrated online repository, Academic Video Online Complete, will also let subscribers cross-search videos throughout the platform from a single interface.
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Posted Apr 07, 2011