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Alexander Street Anthropology is a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. Featuring cross-searchable access to the acclaimed Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online collections, Alexander Street Anthropology provides anthropologists, sociologists and cultural historians with an expansive and multifaceted survey of the discipline. Researchers can explore a wide range of materials--from documentaries and field notes to written ethnographies and reference works. brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, and videos, covering human behavior the world over. Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography, the database will contain more than 100,000 pages of material at completion, including tens of thousands of pages of previously unpublished material from major archives.

Trial is available until March 4, 2012 via IP authentication only.
To access the collection, point your browser to: anthtrial.alexanderstreet.com

For off-campus access, point your browser to:
anthtrial.alexanderstreet.com

For more information or to offer feedback, please contact: Bonnie Ryan.

Posted by Brian McLaughlin on February 7, 2012 | Permalink

Classical Score Library II is a new database trial from Alexander Street Press.
Classical Scores Library contains 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. The database has been indexed to enable users to search on musically relevant fields, such as composer, work/opus number, key, genre, instrument, time period; as well as score-specific fields, such as score type, duration, editor, arranger, publisher. Content in the database includes in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series.
This trial is available from January 18, 2012 to March 4, 2012 and it's available via IP authentication only.

To access the collections, point your browser to: http://shm2trial.alexanderstreet.com

For Off-Campus access please point your browser to:
http://shm2trial.alexanderstreet.com

For more information or to offer feedback, please contact: Rachel S Fox Von Swearingen

Posted by Brian McLaughlin on January 18, 2012 | Permalink