Publisher Bill Pidduck visits Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, the home town of Nella Last (also known as 'Housewife 49'): the Mass Observation diarist whose extraordinary submissions provide an intimate account of life during the Second World War in England.
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The lastest newsletter covering recent and forthcoming updates to the Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 Portal is now available.
The Spring 2010 edition covers materials recently uploaded from the collections at the Louisiana State University, plus new Contextual Essays.
Please see the project highlights for further information.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 is one of seven collections included in our North American Discovery Package. Discovery Packages enable libraries to obtain a range of digital resources at greatly discounted rate.
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2010 brings major developments at Adam Matthew Digital! Highlights of our new content, pricing models and access technology include:
Archive Explorer
Archive Explorer is our all-new, freely available federated search tool, offering users a simple and powerful way to explore all of our collections from a single source, making millions of pages of primary source material available at the press of a button. The Archive Explorer tool is available in the top-right corner of every page on our website.
Users may choose to search across all Adam Matthew Digital collections or select only those that are available in the library. We’ve enabled access through to document detail level on all resources, even those that haven’t been purchased.
iAMDigital
iAMDigital provides a single online space created especially for librarians to read the latest collection reviews, sign-up for RSS feeds, access counter compliant usage statistics, download and print publicity materials and get the low-down from our editorial team in their bi-monthly ‘News Features’. We will be adding to this section over time and any suggestions for additions are welcome.
Pricing
Adam Matthew Digital has expanded the flexibility of its popular pricing structure for smaller institutions with the introduction of annual access fees and our new Archive Secure payment method – the ability to purchase a resource outright over a period of five years, with no further hosting fees.
If your library is struggling with budgets and increasing annual subscription costs, you’ll also be pleased to hear that 2010 sees the third consecutive year with no price increase across any Adam Matthew Digital collections.
New Collections
Our editorial team are working on an exciting publication schedule for this year. Highlights include Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954, Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969, Medieval Family Life, London Low Life and additions to the Eighteenth Century Journals, Foreign Office Files for China and Victorian Popular Culture portals.
Themed Packages
Adam Matthew Digital’s new themed Discovery Packages enable libraries to obtain a range of digital resources at a greatly discounted rate.
Our Discovery Packages cover Asia (five collections), North America (seven collections) and Literature and Culture (nine collections) and it is also possible for libraries to tailor a package to their own requirements.
With all the exciting new collections and Discovery Packages, and the Archive Secure payment plan and annual access fees, we have a lot to offer customers in 2010!
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
One of just 40 electronic resources and 652 books selected, The American West has been recognised as “the best of the best” out of an original 7,065 titles reviewed by Choice editorial staff in 2009.
Through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources, The American West provides a rare and fascinating insight into tales of frontier life, Native Americans, vigilantes and outlaws. Coupled with materials covering the development of urban centres and the expansion into the 'Wild West', this collection is a dynamic teaching and research resource.
Irving Rockwood, Choice editor and publisher, comments “these outstanding works have been awarded for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important – often the first – treatment of their subject.”
American West Project Editor Jennifer Bullock says “We are delighted to have received this prestigious award from Choice Magazine. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in the production of this resource, especially the Newberry Library and our Board of Academic Editors, who along with the dedicated staff at Adam Matthew Digital worked incredibly hard to make this such a great success. “
Free, four-week trials of The American West and all other Adam Matthew Digital collections are available. Please see our trials registration page to request access.
Adam Matthew Digital offers institution-specific discounts on all resources based on banding. Please contact us for further details.