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Alexander Street Press Databases Down
UPDATE => The Alexander Street Press website is up again. Alexander Street Press is currently experiencing website difficulties, as a result none of their databases are accessible. They expect access to be restored by 5:30pm Monday September 30th.
Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: On Trial
“Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels… The current release contains 289 comic series, 1,602 comic books totalling 100,975 pages.” -Alexander Street Press On trial till March 16th. Remember to give feedback on this resource.
Two Video Databases on Trial: A Mini DOXA Fest?
Two video databases on trial from Alexander Street Press… just in time for DOXA! Filmakers Library Online is a collection of award-winning documentaries from a broad range of research interests – race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, […]
Two New eResources for Music and Urban Landscape Lovers
Two recent resources have been added to the Library’s list of Indexes & Databases: Music Online is a portal which provides access to all of UBC library’s Alexander Street Press music databases: Classical Music Library, Classical Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Opera in Video and Smithsonian Global Sound. elementsdb catalogues […]
History in Video: Trial Databases
Is it almost like being there? Check out American History in Video and World History in Video and see for yourself. American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. World History in Video […]
The Sixties: An Alexander Street Press flashback
We’ve had this one for a few months now, but somehow we missed it, man. “The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents…” well you get the drift. Check it out here.
Alexander Street Press: Canadian Women and Social Movements
We’ve just released a special edition of our online publication Women and Social Movements in the U.S. titled “Canadian Women and Social Movements,” and we hope you’ll take a look! –Alexander Street Press Editors for this project include Canadian feminist historians Lara Campbell (Simon Fraser); Nancy Janovicek (University of Calgary); Tamara Myers (University of British […]