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 Contact Member Services Free trials to THREE Alexander Street collections Through April 30, 2013, Alexander Street Press is offering MCLS members free trial access to VAST: Academic Video Online, Nursing Education in Video, and a brand-new Counseling Package. To log in, visit alexanderstreet.com/mclsgateway2013 and use password #MCLSgateway2013. There you will also receive access to several additional New and Featured video, text, and music collections from Alexander Street. Overviews of the three main trial collections are below. For pricing, subscriptions, or other questions, contact us at services@mcls.org.
VAST: Academic Video OnlineVAST: Academic Video Online is Alexander Street’s flagship video subscription, bringing together thousands of video titles in a wide range of disciplines. With thousands and thousands of complete titles (not clips) and growing by more than 400 titles per month, VAST includes thousands of award-winning films from dozens of producers and distributors. VAST is designed to bring the highest-quality video content to the broadest range of subject areas. Whether you need early twentieth-century newsreels for your history department, contemporaneous field recordings of previously undocumented cultures for anthropology coursework, or just-released documentaries exploring current events in political science, you’ll find high-quality and relevant content quickly and easily.Dozens of the most interesting and vital producers and distributors have contributed content to VAST, including BBC, PBS, Arthaus, CBS, Kino International, Documentary Educational Resources, California Newsreel, Opus Arte, Cinema Guild, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, Psychotherapy.net, Zeitgeist, First Run Features, and many more. Titles in VAST are carefully selected to meet departmental needs and include documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and news reels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. To learn more, check out the video below or visit Alexander Street's VAST page. Nursing Education in VideoNursing Education in Video gives faculty and students anywhere-anytime streaming access to Medcom-Trainex’s highly-regarded library of fundamental and advanced nurse training programs. Widely used in nursing courses and hospitals, Medcom videos have won more than 50 major awards for excellence and deliver all of the search power and advanced functionality that libraries expect from Alexander Street’s video collections.Subject areas and sample titles in Nursing Education in Video include:
Additional details are available at Alexander Street's Nursing Education in Video page. Counseling PackageAlexander Street Press has just released a new Counseling Package that gives MCLS members access to all five Counseling collections for up to 45% off list price! This package offers more than 2,000 hours of video and 84,000 pages of text material. The full suite of counseling materials features therapy session videos and transcripts, client narratives, interviews, presentations, and more to support teaching and research in counseling and related disciplines. Package components include:
Library ResourcesHarpWeek Harper's Weekly 1857–1912
Harper’s Weekly was the definitive newspaper of record for the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th. It had broad national distribution and some international, a circulation that exceeded 100,000 and peaked at 300,000, and effective readership of at least half a million people. Harper's Weekly 1857–1912 from Alexander Street Press is the definitive version of the newspaper in electronic form. Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines: Important and Rare Periodicals from Confederate, Union, Abolitionist, and British Presses Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines is the definitive online Civil War media resource. The database contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of them illustrated—3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865. Subscriptions for the HarpWeek databases will be set up directly through Alexander Street Press. Reference Databases African American Music Reference
Alexander Street Drama - Package Alexander Street Literature - Package The American Civil War Online - Package The American Civil War Research Database The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries American Film Scripts American History in Video American Song Anthropology Online Art and Architecture in Video Asian American Drama Asian Studies in Video - New! Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection Black Drama: Second Edition Black Short Fiction and Folklore Black Studies in Video Black Thought and Culture Black Women Writers British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries Caribbean Literature Classical Music in Video Classical Music Library Classical Music Reference Library Classical Scores Library Classical Scores Library: Volume II Contemporary World Music Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume I Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume III Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video Current Affairs in Video - Coming soon Dance in Video Dental Education in Video - New! The Digital Karl Barth Library The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment Early Experiences in Australasia: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1788–1901 - New! Education in Video Ethnographic Video Online Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II - New! Filmakers Library Online Filmakers Library Online: Volume II - Coming soon The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online The Gilded Age Harper's Weekly: 1857–1912 Health and Society in Video Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts Images of the American Civil War Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period Jazz Music Library Latin American Women Writers Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction LGBT Studies in Video LGBT Thought and Culture - Coming soon Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society The March of Time® Microtraining Music Online: Listening - Package Music Online: Reference - Package Music Online: Video Package New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories North American Indian Drama North American Indian Thought and Culture North American Theatre Online North American Women's Drama North American Women's Letters and Diaries Nursing Education in Video Opera in Video Oral History Online Rehabilitation Therapy in Video Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period Silent Film Online The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online - Package Social Theory South and Southeast Asian Literature in English Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video The Stanley Milgram Films on Social Psychology Theatre in Video Twentieth Century Advice Literature Twentieth Century North American Drama Twentieth Century Religious Thought Volume I: Christianity Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels VAST: Academic Video Online The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000 Women and Social Movements, International World History in Video World War II Newsreels, 1929–1946 Learn more at www.alexanderstreet.com Additional InformationERMI License Elements & License Agreements |
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