privately held company industry database publishing audio and video streaming founded 2000 headquarters alexandria virginia united states number of locations alexandria va new york city ny reading uk brisbane australia shanghai china number of employees 100 website official website alexander street press is an electronic academic database publisher . 1 2 3 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 january 2016 the company had grown to more than 100 employees with offices in the united states australia brazil china and the united kingdom . in june 2016 it was acquired by proquest . 4 contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 . citation needed in 2000 in collaboration with the artfl project at the university of chicago 5 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 birthplace and deathplace 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 . 6 7 8 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 . 9 10 in november 2004 alexander street acquired the principal assets of classical international 11 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 . citation needed 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 developing 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 . 12 in april 2007 alexander street acquired the principal products of harpweek publisher of harper s weekly and lincoln and the civil war . citation needed in september 2010 alexander street acquired microtraining associates a specialist producer and distributor of therapy and counseling videos . 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 . citation needed 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 . 13 in one of the first and largest independent surveys 14 on streaming video in north american academic libraries by deg farrelly arizona state university and jane hutchison william paterson university alexander street emerged as the leading vendor used at more than 60 % of sites . 15 insight media was present at some 10 % of sites . in 2014 the company launched a series of case study databases which combine books audio video reports pamphlets and other primary sources . the first two of these were engineering case studies online which documented major accidents of the 20th century and psychological experiments online which documented seminal experiments on and about humans . citation needed in 2015 the company secured an arrangement with cbs to publish episodes of sixty minutes from 1996 2014 . 16 it also announced open access initiatives in anthropology the anthropology commons and music the open music library . 17 products edit as of 2016 the company s principal products are academic video online 50 000 academically oriented video titles music online a collection of 8.3 million tracks of music together with scores and reference works over 120 primary source collections offerings across the curriculum and over 60 000 video titles . these materials are made available using a wide range of business models including demand driven access to own eba pda subscriptions and perpetual licenses . citation needed references edit alexander street gets personal . libraryjournal.com . archived from the original on july 28 2012 . retrieved december 15 2012 . alexander street kuyper rushing lois the charleston advisor volume 3 number 4 april 2002 pp. 12 12 1 literary market place the directory of the american book publishing industry 2005 . alexander street press joins the proquest family of companies press release . proquest llc . june 22 2016 . retrieved june 22 2016 . the artfl project . artfl collaborations the artfl project . artfl project.uchicago.edu . retrieved december 15 2012 . 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 women and social movements in the united states 1830 1930 web site . a journal for multimedia history web site review . albany.edu . may 7 1999 . retrieved december 15 2012 . 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 database marketplace 2005 shopping for information . libraryjournal.com . archived from the original on july 28 2012 . retrieved december 15 2012 . webcast report video in the library trends and best practices . libraryjournal.com . archived from the original on july 28 2012 . retrieved december 15 2012 . alexander street press acquires insight media . researchinformation.info . retrieved march 23 2016 . the first large scale and most comprehensive effort to date to collect data on streaming video funding licensing acquisition and hosting in academic libraries streaming video in academic libraries preliminary results from a national survey . asu.edu . retrieved march 23 2016 . information today . 60 minutes archive comes to alexander street press . infotoday.com . retrieved march 23 2016 . alexander street press librarylearningspace.com . librarylearningspace.com . retrieved march 23 2016 . external links edit film portal official website anthropology commons website filmakers library website globalsound website insight media website microtraining associates website open music library website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alexander street press & oldid 738377179 categories academic publishing companiescompanies based in alexandria 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