News
The latest news, articles and press releases from AM.
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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.
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Empower your students to think critically and take ownership of their research with Research Methods Primary Sources - the innovative new teaching and learning tool from Adam Matthew
Adam Matthew is excited to announce the launch of its new online resource, Research Methods Primary Sources, helping students to understand and interact confidently with primary source material, both digitally and in archives.
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Adam Matthew Digital publishes Colonial Caribbean – CO Files from The National Archives, UK, with advanced Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology
Drawn from the vast archives of the British Colonial Office, the material represents the definitive collection of digital primary sources available for the study of life in the Caribbean under British colonial rule.
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Texas Wesleyan University unites institutional repository and digital archive in new digital collections site built in Quartex
Texas Wesleyan University’s Eunice and James L. West Library is celebrating the launch of archives.txwes.edu, its new digital collections site in Quartex, marking the achievement of an ambition to unite the University’s institutional repository and digital archives into one public-access website.
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Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings project collaborator wins 2021 Librarian of the Year
Adam Matthew Digital is pleased to share the news that Maureen Russell, with whom we worked closely to publish Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings, has been named 2021 Librarian of the Year by Librarians Association of the University of California-Los Angeles.
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Harris County Digital Archives chooses Quartex to publish brand new digital collections
Harris County Archives has launched its first dedicated collections site on Quartex, an Adam Matthew Digital platform, bringing together assets from multiple sources to showcase chapters in the County’s history.
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Press release: Quartex launches fully searchable transcriptions of digitized manuscript assets
Quartex, an Adam Matthew Digital SaaS platform, is delighted to announce the launch of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) Transcription, which creates automated, fully searchable transcriptions of manuscript assets with a single click.
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ASERL libraries pool purchasing to gain access to huge trove of Adam Matthew Digital content
The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and Adam Matthew Digital are pleased to announce a successful partnership that has resulted in ASERL libraries gaining perpetual access to all Adam Matthew Digital content published through 2016.
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Adam Matthew Digital supporting UKSG’s 2021 bursary programme
We are delighted to announce that, as well as being this year’s UKSG virtual conference Gold Sponsors, we are also supporting two participants in the UKSG bursary programme.
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Mass Observation Project – the 1990s sheds a new light on culture and society in Britain in the 1990s
A unique social study, capturing the personal impact ofa range of events from the decade including the death of Princess Diana, the first Gulf War, and the 1997 UK General Election.
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Des Plaines Memory launches on Quartex
Adam Matthew Digital and Des Plaines Public Library are very pleased to announce that the Des Plaines Memory site is now live on Quartex.
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Adam Matthew Digital announces publication of Sex & Sexuality Module II: Self-Expression, Community and Identity
Explore LGBTQI+ individual personal histories from the late-nineteenth century to the present day.
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Towson University launches digital archives on Quartex
Adam Matthew Digital is pleased to announce that Towson University has become the latest partner to launch its digital archiveson Quartex.
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Adam Matthew Digital supporting carbon offset project in Aruba
The company has begun a new partnership with Climate Partner to direct annual carbon offset contributions to selected projects around the world.
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Harris County Public Library celebrates centennial with publication of digital archives on Quartex
Harris County Public Library is the latest institution to adopt the Quartex platform for digitally publishing archival material.
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CHOICE selects two Adam Matthew Digital collections as ‘Outstanding Academic Titles 2020’
Excellent individual reviews saw Ethnomusicology and Colonial America both named in the publication’s prestigious annual list.
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Congregational Library & Archives chooses Quartex to increase accessibility and broaden the reach of its archival collections
Adam Matthew Digital has announced today that the Congregational Library & Archives (CLA) has chosen Quartex to publish and showcase its extensive archival collections of Congregational Christian history.
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Adam Matthew Digital announces publication of East India Company – Correspondence: Early Voyages, Formation and Conflict
The first of two releases presenting series E of the India Office Records, this collection contains correspondence between the East India Company, the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, the Company’s various settlements, and European houses of agency.
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Bay Area TV Archive partners with Quartex for AV pilot project
Adam Matthew Digital has announced today that Bay Area TV Archive (BATA), a unit of the Special Collections and Archives at San Francisco State University’s J. Paul Leonard Library, has partnered with Quartex for a two-year Pilot Project exploring effective display of audio and video content. BATA is the first partner in the Quartex AV Pilot and will be joined by others in the coming months.
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From Roman recipes to the rise of the professional chef, chart the evolution of food in everyday life with Adam Matthew Digital’s Food and Drink in History – Module II
Adam Matthew Digital has announced the publication of Food and Drink in History, Module II which offers a platform from which to study the historical links between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race, and socio-economic status.
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Discover the richly illustrated material in Adam Matthew Digital’s newly-published resource: Children’s Literature and Culture
Adam Matthew Digital is pleased to announce the publication of its latest resource: Children’s Literature and Culture. This highly visual collection is full of richly illustrated content allowing researchers and students to explore how American society evolved during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how this evolution was depicted and personified through literature created for children during the period.
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Adam Matthew Digital announces landmark deal with the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc. (PALCI) including free access for k-12 schools in the School District of Philadelphia
Adam Matthew Digital (AM Digital) is pleased to announce a new access deal with the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc. (PALCI), providing all 70 member institutions with access to the publisher’s range of primary source collections published through the end of 2018.
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Goldey-Beacom College to publish over 150 years of history on Quartex
Adam Matthew Digital has today announced that Goldey-Beacom College has chosen the publisher’s Quartex platform to increase discoverability of the institution’s archival material.
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Towson University chooses Quartex digital publishing platform for university archives
Adam Matthew Digital is today pleased to announce that Towson University has become the latest institution to move their digital archives to the publisher’s Quartex platform.
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Adam Matthew Digital publishes the first module of Mass Observation Project: 1981-2009
This first module covers the 1980s from Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis, to the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana, and Live Aid.
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Adam Matthew Digital announces publication of Medical Services and Warfare, Module II: 1928-1949
Adam Matthew Digital is pleased to announce the publication of Medical Services and Warfare: 1928-1949, the second and final module of this resource which looks at medical discovery and development from the during the Spanish Civil War, World War Two and beyond.
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Join us at ALA Virtual
We are excited to be hosting a session at ALA Virtual 2020.
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'Provider, Partner and Pioneer: Research Libraries and the Impact of Digitization'
Written by Quartex's Head of Customer Engagement, Martin Drewe, for the latest edition of Against The Grain.
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Adam Matthew supports Early Career Researchers with Royal Historical Society partnership
We are delighted to announce that we are working in partnership with the Royal Historical Society to provide 200 individual 12-month free subscriptions to all Adam Matthew content.
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Adam Matthew Digital launches Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life
This latest collection provides a way to explore lives across the social spectrum between 1500 and 1700
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Adam Matthew Digital announces the newest addition to Research Source, Business, Economic and Labour History.
Adam Matthew Digital is pleased to announce the publication of Business, Economic and Labour History, the latest addition to the Research Source suite.
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Adam Matthew Digital announces publication of 'Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive'
Drawn from the holdings of the National Library of Scotland, AM Digital's latest collection, Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive, is an unparralleled resource for scholars and academics.
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McGill University site goes live on Quartex
McGill University has now launched its new site on Quartex, becoming the latest institution to utilise the resources and technology offered by the platform.
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Baylor University adopts Adam Matthew Digital’s Quartex platform as a robust solution for its diverse special collections program
Adam Matthew Digital is pleased to announce today that 62 digital collections from Baylor University have now gone live on Quartex.
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Update to Customers - COVID-19
In response to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we want to reassure our customers and partners that we expect access to our products and services to remain unaltered. We are committed to supporting our community of students, educators, archivists and librarians in any way we can throughout this crisis.
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Adam Matthew Digital announces publication of ‘Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain’
From the workhouses and the slums to political movements and charitable institutions, discover what life was like for the poorest communities in Victorian Britain.
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Adam Matthew Digital publishes Women’s Studies, the latest addition to Research Source
Drawn from Adam Matthew’s extensive microfilm back catalogue, Women’s Studies contains a breadth of printed and manuscript material providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history.
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Adam Matthew Digital announces publication of module I of ‘Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980’
In the post-WWII period as the Vietnam War raged on, the threat of communism grew, and the influence of Western Empires diminished, Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980 Section I: Cold War in the Pacific, Trade Relations, and the Post-Independence Period, 1963-1966, offers an insight into the region’s struggle for independence against a backdrop of conflict and a shifting political landscape.
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Sonoma County Library adopts Quartex to enable local communities to discover archival content
Sonoma County Library, known nationally for innovation and connection to its local communities, has signalled its intention to preserve collections and make them easier for the public to access with an announcement today that it will begin using Adam Matthew Digital’s Quartex platform.
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Adam Matthew Digital launches new World War Two Studies product
World War Two Studies, the latest addition to Adam Matthew’s Research Source suite provides students and scholars with access to important primary sources relating to many aspects of World War Two.
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Adam Matthew Digital and The Kinsey Institute announce publication of Sex & Sexuality digital archive
Explore the changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender and sexual behaviours in America and beyond, throughout the twentieth century.
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Adam Matthew Digital holds first Digital Primary Sources Day at University of Leeds
Adam Matthew Digital was delighted to hold the first Digital Primary Sources Day, kindly hosted within the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The first of its kind, the aim of our Digital Primary Sources Day was to create a forum for discussion of primary sources and their use in teaching and research.
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Adam Matthew Digital to publish selected Royal Shakespeare Company archives
Award-winning publisher, Adam Matthew Digital, is delighted to announce a major new collaboration with the internationally renowned Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) which will see key items in the RSC’s archive digitised and made accessible to the global academic community.
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Adam Matthew Digital launches new collection - ‘Food and Drink in History’
New resource now available.
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A soundtrack to life: What can the study of music tell us about global cultural identities?
Adam Matthew Digital today announces the publication of its latest digital collection: Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings.
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Adam Matthew Announces the First Digital Collections from Loyola Marymount University
Quartex enables Loyola Marymount University to further library's mission of availability and accessibility of diverse digital collections.
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University of Exeter becomes first European university to purchase complete primary source portfolio from Adam Matthew Digital
Adam Matthew Digital is delighted to announce today that University of Exeter has become the first European university to purchase its entire digital primary source portfolio of over 100 modules.