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Alexander Street is an academic database publisher〔Alexander Street: Kuyper-Rushing, Lois, The Charleston Advisor, Volume 3, Number 4, April 2002 , pp. 12-12(1)〕 engaged in publishing Born-digital material.〔Literary Market Place: The Directory of the American Book Publishing Industry, 2005.〕 It was founded in May 2000 in Alexandria, Virginia, by Stephen Rhind-Tutt (president), Janice Cronin (CFO), and Eileen Lawrence (vice president, sales and marketing). As of November 2013, the company had grown to more than 120 employees with offices in the United States, China, Australia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. ==History== The company's first product was ''North American Women's Letters and Diaries'', a collection of 150,000 pages of letters and diaries by women from colonial times through the 1950s. In 2000, in collaboration with the ARTFL project at the University of Chicago, the company began using semantic indexing techniques in its humanities databases. It created metadata elements for gender, age, and sexual orientation of characters within plays; author nationality, birth and death place, as well as where and when an item was written. These elements were then combined with full-text search to allow material to be analyzed in new ways.〔Shlomo Argamon, Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen and Sterling Stein, " Gender, Race, and Nationality in Black Drama, 1850-2000: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters", Digital Humanities Quarterly, Spring 2009, Volume 3 Number 2.〕〔How Semantic Tagging Increases Findability, Heather Hadden, EContent Magazine, October 2008. http://www.hedden-information.com/SemanticTagging.pdf〕〔Rhind-Tutt, Stephen. "Different Direction for Electronic Publishers: How Indexing Can Increase Functionality." Technicalities 21(3):1,13-15, May/June 2001〕 In 2003, the company began a major partnership with The Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York to publish ''Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000''. This has subsequently become a leading site for the study of women's history.〔Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000 Bonnie S. Anderson, ''Women's History Review'', 1747-583X, volume 19, issue 5, 2010, pages 795 – 797〕 In November 2004, Alexander Street acquired the principal assets of Classical International, a London and New York-based publisher of streaming music for libraries. This led to a new range of music publications, including a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution to provide Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries and African American Song. In November 2005, Alexander Street acquired the range of religious products produced by Ad Fontes, including ''The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts'' and ''The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation''. In October 2006 the company acquired the assets of University Music Editions, a small microfilm publisher specializing in the publication of scores, journals and other musically oriented publications. These collections were subsequently released as part of Classical Scores Library. Late in 2006 the company began development of online collections of video. ''Theatre in Video'' was published in April 2007 and has been followed by a succession of online streaming video collections. Using techniques such as semantic indexing, initially developed for textual databases, it was an early provider of synchronized, scrolling transcripts that allow the watcher to read ahead. At the 2010 Midsummer American Library Association the company advertised 9 streaming video collections spanning more than 9,000 individual video titles. In April 2007, Alexander Street acquired the principal products of HarpWeek, publisher of ''Harper's Weekly'' and ''Lincoln and the Civil War''. In September 2010 Alexander Street acquired Microtraining Associates, a specialist producer and distributor of therapy and counseling video. In December 2010 the company acquired Filmakers Library, a distributor of issue based documentaries. In 2012 it acquired the principal assets of Asia Pacific Films. In November 2013 Alexander Street announced the acquisition of Insight Media, a New York based vendor of DVD and streaming media, bringing the ASP catalog to more than 50,000 academic video titles.〔http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1410〕 In one of the first and largest independent surveys〔http://2013charlestonconference.sched.org/event/04fc7895efb02f4923d91b7bf01d03a4#.UpADY5HPRMI "the first large-scale and most comprehensive effort to date to collect data on streaming video funding, licensing, acquisition, and hosting in academic libraries"〕 on streaming video in North American academic libraries by deg farrelly (Arizona State University) and Jane Hutichison (William Paterson University, Alexander Street emerged as the leading vendor, used at more than 60% of sites.〔http://repository.asu.edu/items/18973〕 Insight Media was present at some 10% of sites. New collections for 2013 included ''Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: Volume II''; ''Meet the Press'' (in collaboration with NBC); ''Classical Scores Library: Volume III''; and ''Early Experiences in Australasia: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1788-1901''. The company is expanding its publishing program to cover the sciences with new titles in Engineering and Nursing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Street Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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