Krassimira Anguelova (Alexander Street)

1. Alexander Street Products – transforming
teaching, research and education
Krassimira Anguelova
Sales Director Europe & Africa
kanguelova@astreetpress.com

2. WHO WE ARE
• Founded in 2000
• Based in Alexandria, VA
• Largest provider of streaming video and music to libraries
• Technology platform for learning, teaching
• Recognized by E-content magazine as one of 100 companies
“that matter most in the digital economy”
•We serve 45m faculty and students in more than 55,000
institutions

3. We’re building the best, most comprehensive collection of
academic video.
Our content

4. 3,000+ partnerships
publishers, studios, music labels, universities, authors…

5. Exclusive content…

6. Disciplines of focus—our areas of
unmatched strength
• Anthropology
• Counseling
• History
• Music
• Diversity Studies
• Education
• Feature Film
• Business
• Health Sciences
• Theatre

11. Survival in the Killing Fields, written by Haing S. Ngor and Roger Warner
Sample monograph

12. Hybrid formats
The ‘case study’ approach

14. Indexing, clips, and playlists enhance
learning

15. Unique research power
We transform video into fielded, searchable databases that
enable in-depth research. This lets researchers conduct a wide
range of new research:
•Anthropology: Examine marriage rituals across cultures from
1975-2010.
•History: What words did JFK use most frequently in his early
career vs. his later career?
•Counseling: Show me every time Albert Ellis used the word
“emotion” in his counseling demonstrations.
•Music: Show me performances of Strauss by Kiri Te Kanawa.
•Drama: Examine performances of Shakespearean jokes over
time.

16. WAYS TO ACQUIRE ALEXANDER STREET VIDEO
– Single titles – streaming or DVD
– Discipline-specific video collections
– Comprehensive, cross-disciplinary video collections (AVON
to Own or PAVN to Own )

17. 1. Title by title

18. 2. Collections
 All you need within a discipline
 Available for purchase of perpetual rights
 Great per-title value
 Range in size from 500 to 5,000 titles
 Current and archival content
 Research and Learning

19. Counseling
• 1,500 full length titles
• Exclusive, specially commissioned titles from
Microtraining
• Only source for ‘greats’ such as Zimbardo and
Milgram
• Over 350 dramatizations and re-enactments
• 60% of titles less than 5 years old
Anthropology
• 2,500 full length titles; over 5,000 altogether
• Over 1,000 ethnographers
• Approximately 70% of titles unavailable elsewhere
online
• Most comprehensive source for many ‘greats’ -
Timothy Asch (48 Titles), John Marshall (48 Titles).
• Previously unpublished field work

20. Music
• Over 5,000 titles in dance, opera, world music,
and jazz
• Notable performances by leading artists
• Works alongside our audio tracks and music
reference services
History
• 5 core collections; 8,500 titles
• World history, American history
• Documentaries, newsreels, television programs
• Approximately 70% of titles are unavailable
elsewhere else online
• In-depth indexing for rich searching

21. COMPLETEMUSICANDDANCEPACKAGE
Audio
• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Jazz Music Library
• Smithsonian Global Sound for
Libraries
• Popular Music Library
• Contemporary World Music
Video
Scores Reference
• Classical Performance in Video
• Dance in Video: Volume I
• Dance in Video: Volume II
• Classical Scores Library: Volume I
• Classical Scores Library: Volume II
• Classical Scores Library: Volume
III
• Classical Scores Library: Volume
IV
MUSICONLINE:LISTENING
• Classical Music Reference Library
• African-American Music Reference
• Garland Encyclopedia of World
Music
CLASSICALSCORESLIBRARY
MUSICONLINE:REFERENCE

22. Religion
• Over 250,000 pages; over 1,300 volumes from Catholic,
Protestant, and other Christian primary source materials, as
well as Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist resources
• unparalleled opportunities for comprehensive, comparative
study of the world’s religions
• hard-to-find and never-before-digitized materials—
theological writings, sermons, interviews, lectures,
personal correspondence, confessional documents, biblical
commentaries, catechisms, sacred drama, historical
accounts, and more.
Business  5,000+ titles—the largest resource of its kind
 Exclusive content from Bloomberg, The Society for
Human Resource Management (SHRM), CARMA, and
others
 Closely matched to current syllabi
 Includes documentaries, corporate training, news
features, interviews, and dramatized scenes

23. Education
• 1,600 hours of training, documentaries, and
instructional videos.
• Wide range of topical coverage
• Includes American, British, and Australian
materials
Performing Arts
Dance In Video Series
Largest collection of top quality performances
Theatre In Video Series
250 top-quality plays
100 documentaries
Fully transcribed and searchable by character

24. Sport Medicine
• Expert lectures and practical demonstrations
• over 1,500 hours video
• Topics covered: wide range of sport, fitness, and exercise
issues, incl. athletic training, health promotion, physical
education, kinesiology/human movement, exercise
physiology, nutritional science, sports medicine, sports
science, and physical therapy.
Health Sciences
 2,000 health science video documentaries, demonstrations, lectures, and
training films, many exclusively
 The highest quality content, hand-selected by expert editors
 Accredited content partners (Medcom Inc., the Global Institute for Dental
Education, Healthy Learning, Clinician’s View, etc.).
 The most recent data.
 A focus on holistic health care.
 Powerful platform and learning tools

25. Feature Films
• Over 2,000 feature films
• No public-domain titles--all are from leading
film houses such as Criterion
• Regional film—Asian film, world cinema
• Silent film
Engineering Sciences
 250 hours of video and 50,000 pages of text resources
 The most frequently taught and seminal case studies around the world
 Feature-length video documentaries of major failures
 Monographs explaining cases in detail and describing key engineering concepts
and issues
 Simulations depicting precisely what went wrong
 Primary footage of accidents; Audio footage and transcripts ; Testimonies from
participants, victims, and witnesses
 Images, accident reports, blueprints, and other key archival content
 Specially written cases that explore engineering ethics, etc.

26. Literature
• Over 900,000 pages of text; over 185 hours
video
• Diverse representation
• Rare materials
• Award-winning collections
• Exceptional partners
• The most content
Veterinary Education in Video
 anytime, anywhere access to an encyclopedic resource on
veterinary science and care.
 more than 550 procedures and techniques explained across
more than 600 titles
 covers clinical skills, explanations of conditions, and training on
technology and animal handling
 The high-quality streaming videos provide insight into animal
reactions and other subtleties that are often lost in text-only
approaches

27. Recently launched:
•Academic Video Online Premium—now with perpetual ownership
•Food Studies Online
•Classical Scores Library: Volume IV (Classical Scores Library Package)
New/Coming soon:
•Anthropological Fieldwork Online
•Film Scripts Online: Volume II
•Theatre in Video: Volume II
•Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1840
•Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement
•Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Islam
Newest and Coming Soon

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29. Academic Video Online: Premium
Lets you own your choice of films
Gives you unlimited hosting for your video
At the end of your subscription year, choose
content to own for perpetual rights to your
choice of titles—tremendous ROI
Free Video Commons Premium Services,
including an upload tool and unlimited space
for hosting your own video—normally $1,000-
$3,000 annually, free with Academic Video
Online

30. Alexander Street video support and services
• Dedicated support rep
• MARC records
• Online Support Center (teaching tools, tutorials, marketing tools)
• Training sessions (onsite, WebEx, conferences)
• Find My Film—we’ll locate and license what you need
• More…
http://allvideo.alexanderstreet.com
Browse all our films to see how to acquire
them

31. Get a free trial of any of AS databases at
http://alexanderstreet.com
or contact me at
kanguelova@alexanderstreet.com