SCELC Vendor Day 2008: About Alexander Street Press

Morning Session - 50 minutes

World Literature Online - Word Literature Online brings together all of our databases in world literature at one affordable price. Featuring hundreds of thousands of pages of poetry, short stories, novels, non-fiction, plays, and essays, the series celebrates the achievements of authors from around the globe. These literatures of place, gender, and race are rich in sociological and historical significance. Students and scholars of literature, history, politics, transatlantic studies, postcolonial studies, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, and other areas can now explore these important works in new ways.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works (formerly Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology) Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a landmark database containing more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions—almost 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, together with 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of the sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous.

The database opens a world of primary sources for therapists, clients, and students to explore and analyze. New methods of research in fields as diverse as anthropology, linguistics, and English literature are now possible.

Personal accounts by clients and records of their therapy experiences are not widely available, leaving researchers with only periodical articles and textbooks. But the journal and text materials present only case studies, which focus on proving a hypothesis or teaching a particular disorder, rarely offering the candid voice of the client. Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works fills the gap at last, bringing the value of primary narratives to scholars and practicing therapists alike.

Afternoon Session - 30 minutes

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries – Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries brings together all of our databases in social and cultural history at one affordable price. Featuring hundreds of thousands of pages of first-person accounts, photographs, and ephemera, this series tells the story of North American and European history in the words of those who lived through it, with letters, diaries, newspaper stories, illustrations, and the statistics that tell the realities of life in the last three centuries.

Theatre in Video (with a preview of Opera in Video and Dance in Video) - Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders. They are now delivered to you over the Internet, in a revolutionary new format developed specifically for drama. For the first time, students, instructors, and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include those online links in their papers and course reserves.