News
The latest news, articles and press releases from AM.
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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.
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Explore America’s transformative age of industrialisation, expanding wealth, inequality, and social change with Adam Matthew’s latest primary source collection, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Covering industry, culture, and politics this varied collection offers a fresh perspective on a much-discussed period of American history.
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Peabody Essex Museum chooses Quartex to reimagine and showcase Salem history digital collections
The Peabody Essex Museum has chosen AM Quartex, the digital collections platform from primary source publisher Adam Matthew Digital, to build and launch new digital archival collections that celebrate and commemorate chapters in the history of Salem, Massachusetts.