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Alexander Street Press

Alexander Street Press - why the collections are breaking new ground in electronic publishing with ordinary electronic products, the indexing allows you to search by author, title, and publication date. If there's full text, you might be able to search for a word or phrase. Alexander Street's Semantic Indexing brings you far beyond, giving you the ability to answer questions in ways never before possible. Our indexers - subject specialists who work in our office - are poring over hundreds of thousands of pages per product, marking up and indexing the concepts behind the words, tagging up to 280 index fields per database. For the first time, youÍre able to reassemble the pieces into exactly the answers you need. You'll finally find information that you always knew was locked somewhere inside the original works, but which was virtually impossible to find. Why did Alexander Street win the prestigious "Best New Products" award from the Charleston Advisor? Questions such as these can be answered quickly, in just two or three clicks:

• "What black-authored plays were produced in New York City during the Civil Rights years? Were any produced in Alabama and Mississippi?"
• "Show me all letters written by women in the Northeast to their husbands in California during the Gold Rush."
• "Show me all diary entries written by married women in Washington that discuss the woman's suffrage movement. Then show me writings by single women from the same period. Then show me the writings of women from other states."
• "Which of August Wilson's plays address the subject of father-son relationships? What other playwrights have addressed this theme?"
• "Was Go Tell It On the Mountain produced in New England in the last 10 years? Who were the cast members? Tell me about the production company. Show me the playbill."
• "Show me everything written by a Civil War soldier in a military hospital within 5 days of the person's death."
• "Show me writings by college-educated men who fought for the Confederacy. How do they describe their experiences in battle?"
• "Compare English and French relationships with the Huron between 1614 and 1616."
• "Detail all accounts of flooding on the Mississippi through 1750."
• "In American films, how are women depicted working out of the home from decade to decade?"
• In movies of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, what ethnic group is portrayed as the most criminal? The most educated?"

I'll be demonstrating the following live databases at Vendor Day:

• North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial - 1950
• The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
• Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
• Black Drama
• The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts

I'll also talk about these forthcoming (spring and summer) releases:

• Scottish and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
• American Film Scripts Online
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

We believe that an electronic database should:

Be carefully crafted by expert editors around a specific subject or discipline.

Detail all materials relevant to the subject, whatever their original form or ownership.

Contain as many of these materials as possible, in multiple formats if necessary.

Be indexed with controlled vocabularies, created for the collection, for precise, exhaustive searching. Provide unique ways of searching, viewing, exploring and analyzing the material.

Facilitate contributions from scholars and librarians.

Be priced to enable unlimited exploration by users.