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The latest news, articles and press releases from AM.
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Latest instalment of AM’s award-winning Conflict in Indochina: Foreign Office Files for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1959-1979 now published
Following the 2023 launch of the acclaimed first section of Conflict in Indochina, Foreign Office Files for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1959-1979, Section II: Escalation, Reunification and Withdrawal, 1965-1979, offers further insights into Southeast Asia’s complex history through records sourced from The National Archives, UK.
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University of Liverpool forges new digital path as the first UK university to launch AM Quartex site
The University of Liverpool has launched a pioneering digital collections site using AM Quartex. The launch marks a milestone for the university in digitising cultural heritage and boosting global research, and positioning itself as a leader in the UK's academic and library sectors.
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AM builds on Apartheid South Africa resource with release of newly-available documents from The National Archives, UK
Featuring newly released documents from The National Archives, UK, the latest instalment in the AM Archives Direct series, "Apartheid South Africa, module IV: Resistance, Sanctions and Reform, 1981-1988," offers an unparalleled exploration of the UK's interaction with South Africa during a pivotal era in the apartheid regime.
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AM launches new AV resource, Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making
AM's new AV resource, sourced from Nasreen Munni Kabir's private collection, contains unedited interviews with Indian film personalities from the 'Golden Age' of Hindi cinema. With over 70 hours of footage and 130 film posters from the British Film Institute, the interviews offer unique insights into Hindi cinema and its film-making process.
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AM partners with Galt Museum & Archives for Ukrainian Archival Summer School
AM is proud to partner with the Galt Museum & Archives on the AM Archival School for Ukraine, a pioneering initiative that seeks to unite Ukrainian archival professionals with international experts to preserve the country's cultural heritage amid ongoing conflict.
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Durham County Library completes migration to AM Quartex with launch of new North Carolina Collection
Created and launched using the powerful and intuitive AM Quartex platform, Durham County Library’s newly-published collection provides unprecedented digital access to the library’s diverse material.
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AM awarded Best Reference title by Library Journal
AM has received the prestigious 'Best Reference' title from Library Journal for its collection, Conflict in Indochina. Judges praised the collection's "unique perspective on the broader impact of the Vietnam War [... allowing] researchers to deepen their knowledge of this tumultuous time in history."
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AM builds on successful East India Company resource with new Board of Commissioners module
The latest module of the flagship East India Company resource, drawn from the holdings of the British Library, spotlights the role of the influential Board of Commissioners in the administration of the East India Company and its role in India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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AM uncovers and amplifies the hidden voices of everyday women with the publication of its latest primary source database
AM’s newly-published resource Women’s Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968 brings together diaries and oral histories from regional and national archives across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to enable students and researchers to explore the lives of hundreds of individuals from diverse backgrounds, from abolitionists to suffragists, and royalty to republicans.
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Digital access in a pandemic: Integrating and utilising AM’s Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings at UCLA
From UCLA's Ethnomusicology Archive, Maureen Russell, Archivist, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Supeena Insee Adler explain how a programme of promotion and training on the use of AM’s Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings enhanced both study and teaching of the resource, and covered for the loss of the physical archival experience during the pandemic.
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The unique opportunities of audio-visual primary sources in opening up new pathways to discover, learn and create
AM's Louise Hemmings explores the unique impact and inherent worth of audio-visual primary sources for higher education teaching and research, and how AM has utilised and facilitated AV content both in our own collections and with our digital collections platform, AM Quartex.
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Expanding Access to Digital Primary Sources for National History Day
In 2019, the University of Minnesota approached a group of publishers, including award-winning primary sources publisher AM, to support their project helping school students to prepare for National History Day. Dot Kelly, Engagement Manager at AM, explains how the collaborative initiative was developed and has helped expand access to digital primary sources, inspiring school students across Minnesota.
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Amnesty International Archives published by AM, charting the history of the global human rights movement in the twentieth century
Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights, the newly-published primary source database from AM, invites students and researchers to explore the history of the leading human rights NGO, and how their activities intersected with other key events in the development of the idea of universal human rights.
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Leveraging Innovative Collaboration to Empower Digital Special Collections
The Loyola Marymount University (LMU) adopted AM Quartex in 2019. Neel Agrawal, Digital Projects Librarian, William H. Hannon Library, explores how innovative partnerships and collaborations have contributed to the development of the library's digital collections.
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Archival Collaboration, Shakespeare’s First Folio and an Open Access Resource
AM’s open access project, First Folios Compared, unlocks exciting new research opportunities for scholars, students and Shakespeare enthusiasts. James Gatheral, PhD, explores this resource’s unique features and potential uses, as well as discussing the importance of AM’s archival partnerships in developing the project.
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AM partners with the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute on new collection
AM is delighted to announce a partnership with the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) to digitise several archival collections, to be featured in the forthcoming collection, Latin American Communities in the United States.
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Amplifying Hidden Voices in Primary Source Databases
Lindsay Gulliver, Publishing Manager at AM and Erin Pearson-Willbery, Senior Editor at AM discuss the importance of creating accessible, sustainable and inclusive content through digitisation of primary sources, and using exciting new technologies such as Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR).
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“No Name Intelligible to Civilised Men:” Hidden Voices in Mount Everest’s Nomenclature
Sam Ellis, PhD, explores Himalayan Mountain nomenclature, revealing the plurality in names that were, and still are, prevalent amongst local voices when referring to the namesake of the former Surveyor-General, George Everest.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu's legacy showcased in new digital archive launched by The Archbishop Tutu IP Trust, Africa Media Online and AM Quartex
The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Archive, a new digital archival collection, commissioned by The Archbishop Tutu IP Trust and created by AM Quartex, launched on 7 October 2023, on what would have been the Archbishop’s 92nd birthday.
(Image courtesy of Benny Gool/Oryx Media)
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Introducing an integrated model for the digital library
Déirdre Joyce, Head of Digital Stewardship and the Digital Library, Syracuse University, documents the establishment of the Libraries' Department of Digital Stewardship, and how a new digital library model, which includes AM Quartex at its heart, was developed to provide patrons with improved digital access to the university's special collections.
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AM launches British Newsreels, 1911-1930, comprising thousands of films from one of the major newsreels of the silent era
AM’s latest publication, British Newsreels, 1911-1930, is an exciting new video resource based on over 6,000 early twentieth century Topical Budget newsreels drawn from the British Film Institute and the Imperial War Museums.
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AM and Microform partner to provide libraries and archives with a holistic digitisation and online presentation solution
AM has announced a new partnership with the digitisation solution provider Microform, which will see the digital collections platform AM Quartex made available as an enhancement to Microform’s digitisation service offering to libraries and archives.
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Archiving Queer Lives: The Stories of Michael B
The stories of LGBTQ+ people throughout history are notoriously difficult to uncover. It is, then, to the rare, personal queer archive that we must turn to find insights into lives and complex experiences that may subvert our expectations of straightforward stories. The personal archive of Michael B sheds light on one such story.
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Final module of Colonial Caribbean publishes to mark completion of major resource
Drawn from the vast records of the British Colonial Office held at The National Archives, UK, this unique collection documents the governance of 25 territories in the Caribbean, spotlighting a wide range of themes and narratives.
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AM and Preservica partner to provide best-in-class digital asset management and digital preservation solutions for libraries and archives
AM has partnered with Preservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation archiving. The collaboration will result in an integration that offers libraries and archives a well-rounded digital ecosystem to protect and publish their digital assets.
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AM launches first module of new collection on the Conflict in Indochina: 1959-1964
Find out more about the newest addition to our Archives Direct portfolio, the first part of Conflict in Indochina: 1959-1964. Through reports, memoranda, photographs, maps, and economic data, researchers and students are afforded a behind-the-scenes look at a time of crisis and upheaval for the region following French decolonisation.
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Rice University uses cutting-edge digital archive technology to unlock new discovery pathways
Rice University's archives, special collections and digitised copies of rare books are now easier to discover than ever before, in a new digital repository built using AM Quartex, chosen for its innovative automated transcription capabilities and the ability to translate non-English content.
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AM launches landmark Open Access archive of Shakespeare’s First Folios
Explore AM's groundbreaking Open Access archive dedicated to Shakespeare's First Folios. This innovative online platform allows researchers, students, and Shakespeare enthusiasts worldwide to explore and compare copies of the renowned First Folio. The project marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, a seminal collection of William Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623.
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New AM collection takes researchers behind the curtain to survey 130 years of performance at the Royal Shakespeare Company
AM's new digital resource, allows researchers to delve into the RSC's extensive production history to explore how the works of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and other playwrights have been performed since the late nineteenth century.
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Massachusetts museum celebrates 400 years of history with new digital open access archive
The Cape Ann Museum is celebrating 400 years of the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a new digital archive, built using AM Quartex.
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New digital archive expands awareness of Baptist society’s mission
AI-powered automated transcription services are being leveraged to broaden access and discovery of the International Mission Board’s manuscript materials and upcoming oral history collections, as well as to create workflow efficiencies and accelerate the publication of new collections.
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Uncover the history of American Broadcasting with AM's exciting new collection
AM’s latest collection Broadcasting America invites students and researchers to explore the rise of mass media and communications in the twentieth century.
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AM scoops two ‘Best Reference Picks’ in Library Journal’s annual list
Library Journal has named The Gilded Age and Progressive Era and Mass Observation Project in its annual Best Reference Picks.
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AM launches ground-breaking resource on the history and legacy of Africa and the New Imperialism
Africa and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914 is a ground-breaking collection providing the most extensive resource covering Africa in the age of New Imperialism; a major period of colonial expansion that sent shockwaves that are still felt today. These were 44 years that reshaped the African continent and transformed the modern world.
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Advances in HTR technology make handwritten documents even more accessible and discoverable
Scanning historical documents and making them available to scholars in digital format helps to increase their accessibility. AI-driven Handwritten Text Recognition is helping to further overcome key limitations faced by researchers in accessing handwritten letters and manuscripts.
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Newly digitised El Paso heritage collections showcased in AM Quartex archive
Researchers of US/Mexico border heritage can now consult newly digitised materials from signature archival collections held by El Paso Public Library, in its new digital archive built using AM Quartex.
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AM Research Methods awarded a CHOICE ‘Outstanding Academic Title 2022’
AM Research Methods entered CHOICE’s annual Outstanding Academic Title list as a highly recommended resource with an outstanding review.
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Samford University's role in Alabama history documented using AM Quartex
Historically significant collections documenting the history of Samford University and religious life in Alabama are among those featured in the Samford University Digital Collections, launched in AM Quartex. Serving the university community, genealogists and researchers of Baptist and Alabama history, the reimagined collections are more accessible and easy to use for people across the world.
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AM and Big Ten Academic Alliance sign landmark access deal
AM has announced a major new agreement with premier library consortium, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA). Students, researchers and scholars at 15 of the leading research institutions in the United States will now have unified access to millions of pages of essential primary source content from AM.
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AM and the British Library continue digitisation of vast East India Company archives
Comprising correspondence between the East India Company and British Government departments, the latest module continues the digitisation of its vast archives and astonishing history.
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Cork City Libraries relaunches popular materials from Cork Past and Present in pilot use of Quartex
Cork City Libraries has relaunched five of the most popular collections from its Cork Past and Present website in a pilot use case of AM Quartex, the digital collections platform from award-winning primary source publisher, AM.
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Preserving and showcasing AV collections
Alex Cherian, TV Archivist at the Bay Area TV Archive, discusses the Quartex A/V Pilot Project and the growing importance of audio-visual collections for today’s researchers.
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AM publishes new Foreign Office Files collection, drawn from The National Archives, UK
Comprising government papers drawn from The National Archives, UK, the second module of Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, titled Foundations of Economic Growth and Industrialisation 1967-1980, charts a period of immense change and development across the region.
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Innovative AI technology in Quartex supports widening access to new Peabody Essex Museum exhibition
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has launched its latest exhibition using AM Quartex, 'Let None Be Excluded', as a hybrid gallery and digital experience that explores the struggle for educational rights in Salem, Massachusetts, which led to equal education advocacy and reform across America.
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Explore life in Britain at the beginning of the new millennium with AM’s latest collection
Mass Observation Project: 1980-2009 explores the history of Britain through three turbulent decades. Just published, the final module captures the experiences, thoughts, and opinions of everyday people in the Noughties.
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Congregational Library & Archives launches new open access digital archive in Quartex
The Congregational Library & Archives (CLA), based in Boston, MA, has launched its digital archive using Quartex with 170 collections documenting the history of over 90 communities in colonial and early-American New England.
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Explore the turbulent and culturally dynamic interwar period in AM’s interdisciplinary periodicals collection
Interwar Culture, available now, showcases material that reflected the social, artistic, and cultural dynamism that characterised the Roaring Twenties.
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New partnership between Adam Matthew and Cadbury Research Library extends online access to researchers
Following the success of a similar initiative launched during the onset of lockdown in Spring 2020, Adam Matthew has extended free online access to digital collections drawn from the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Archive, awarding 12, one-year subscriptions to the Cadbury Research Library.