1/06
CHOICE: SMITHSONIAN GLOBAL SOUND FOR LIBRARIES®

The value of the recordings included in this product is already well-known: Moses Asch's Folkways label, and its successor Smithsonian Folkways, released field recordings of music from around the world, spoken performances, and all manner of natural and man-made sounds. In addition to almost 29,000 tracks from Folkways, Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries includes 6,000-plus recordings from smaller labels.

11/05
 KIRKUS REVIEWS: SMITHSONIAN GLOBAL SOUND FOR LIBRARIES®

With 35,000 tracks from 138 different countries, Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, from online-only reference publisher Alexander Street Press, offers music for students and those simply curious about parts of the world that are not represented on iTunes—an impressive, easy-to-use database of streaming folk music, along with some blues, jazz and children’s songs.

8/05
CHOICE: NORTH AMERICAN IMMIGRANT LETTERS, DIARIES, AND ORAL HISTORIES

Both beginning researchers and advanced scholars will benefit from this site’s collection of primary and secondary documents, which take various formats—e.g., immigration guidebooks, audio interviews, and anti-immigration cartoons from Puck, Harper’s Weekly and Judge’s Library. 

8/05
CHOICE: ORAL HISTORY ONLINE

A resource well worth its reasonable price. 

8/05
CHOICE: NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN'S DRAMA

This newly released electronic database comprises more than 1,500 full text plays written by women from the U.S. and Canada .  Edited by noted feminist performance scholars such as Peggy Phelan and Janet Brown, this rich resource includes works ranging from Colonial drama to 19^th-century melodrama to contemporary performance art. 

8/05
CHOICE: AMERICAN FILM SCRIPTS

Both film scholars and casual users will find much of interest here, from research to information useful to those learning the art and crafty of filmmaking...The site is handsomely constructed and provides a handy guided tour of its multiple departments. 

8/05
CHOICE: BLACK DRAMA

Beyond its textual content, the features that most distinguish this site are its flexible, detailed, and comprehensive search features, indexing, and cross-links.  Virtually every conceivable element or aspect of each play (characters, themes, scenes, dates of composition, productions, etc.) is indexed in detail for historical references, personal events, sexual orientation, and geographic location.  Combined with the elegantly simple yet powerful search templates, this detailed indexing permits one to accomplish marvels.

8/05
CHOICE: WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Additional databases from Alexander Street Press are always welcome to teachers, students, historians, librarians, and researchers.  ASP has the cleanest, most responsive search apparatus in the business.

05/19/05
THE CHARLESTON ADVISOR: ORAL HISTORY ONLINE

COMPOSITE SCORE: 4 3/8 STARS (OUT OF A POSSIBLE 5 STARS)

CONTENT: 5 STARS
Alexander Street Press is actively searching for and adding new oral history collections to Oral History Online with every quarterly database release.  Oral History Online takes the wealth of available oral history collections and provides access for researchers through detailed and accurate indexing.  It provides much needed and previously unavailable comprehensive electronic indexing and controlled vocabulary for oral history research.

04/05
CHOICE: BLACK THOUGHT AND CULTURE

Another notable resource from Alexander Street, this site connects students and scholars with non-fiction works by leading African Americans.  The materials, currently 619 sources by 264 authors, document "the development of African American thought from its beginnings to the present" and support research in the humanities and social sciences.

09/01/04
LIBRARY JOURNAL: LIBRARY JOURNAL LAUDS LATINO LITERATURE

CAN YOU AND YOUR PATRONS USE IT? The file is beautifully designed with humanistic information seeking proclivities in mind. But it also allows expert searchers to work their electronic magic, as well ... This content is rich and vitally needed yet highly elusive. Alexander Street has focused on an area of scholarship long overdue for attention. ¡Felicitaciones!

06/01/04
LIBRARY JOURNAL: ORAL HISTORY FINALLY GETS ITS DUE

HOW GOOD IS IT? Sorry to set the bar so high the first column out, but this is a ten. Even the Help functions are fantastic. Alexander Street has included so much useful information, and made it so intelligently accessible, it’s hard to imagine how the file can be made better…

04/21/04
REFERENCE REVIEWS: NORTH AMERICAN IMMIGRANT LETTERS AND DIARIES

Current and ongoing interest in ethnic history and immigration studies from the perspective of the immigrants themselves, in oral and written formats, makes this database a valuable resource for students and scholars in the areas of history, folklore, political science, and sociology, among others. When complete, this database will provide users access to a wealth of primary sources, many not easily accessible or accessible at all in other formats or venues. The ability to search one or multiple texts in varied and sophisticated ways is the reason this database will appeal to many who have used the microform collections of the Ellis Island Oral History Project or Manuscript Autobiographies from the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. Alone, or in conjunction with these other research collections in American immigration, North American Immigrant Letters and Diaries is highly recommended for all academic and research libraries.

04/01/04
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL: BLACK DRAMA

"The depth of subject indexing makes this database relevant across many disciplines."

01/01/04
BLACK DRAMA NAMED "OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE, 2003" BY CHOICE MAGAZINE

07/01/03
REFERENCE REVIEWS: AMERICAN FILM SCRIPTS ONLINE

"This unique resource is projected to become even more useful in the near future as plans proceed to increase to 1,000 the total number of film scripts available. Plans are also in the progress to provide digitized facsimiles of the original scripts. A useful research tool for large universities with a research interest in film studies or popular culture."

11/15/03
REFERENCE REVIEWS: ASIAN AMERICAN DRAMA

...Asian American Drama will be a highly useful resource for institutions with programmes in literature, drama, and history, and comes strongly recommended...

11/15/03
REFERENCE REVIEWS: EARLY ENCOUNTERS IN NORTH AMERICA: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment

...an excellent resource for teaching research methods, especially for smaller schools lacking extensive American history collections. It could also be used in conjunction with historical microform collections. Early Encounters in North America is recommended for libraries supporting serious research in history, social sciences and environmental history...

11/15/03
LIBRARY JOURNAL REVIEWS WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1600 - 2000

Alexander Street Press has teamed with scholars from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton’s Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender to create a new collaborative model that will keep a women’s studies project alive and make an important web site broadly accessible. Alexander Street is providing funding support, along with its Semantic Indexing, to produce this enhanced file. The company hopes it will signal a new trend in publisher/scholar collaborations...

A review by Simon P. Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American Studies,
University of Glasgow

Alexander Street Press was founded in 2000, and has rapidly emerged as one of the leading producers of digitised collections in the humanities. It is increasingly common for publishers and libraries to digitise collections of manuscripts and printed materials, but for both teaching and research the Alexander Street Press publications are amongst the best I have encountered.

The disenfranchised women of past eras are no longer stifled into silence.