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The latest news, articles and press releases from AM.
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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 UniversityQuartex 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 DigitalAdam 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.
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Adam Matthew Launches new digital collection, America in World War Two: Oral Histories and Personal AccountsExperience the events of WWII through the personal histories of those that lived through it.
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Now published online: Shakespeare’s Globe Archive – Theatres, Players & PerformanceWednesday 6th March 2019 - Archives from the world-renowned Shakespeare’s Globe are now available online, as part of a collaboration with award-winning primary source publisher, Adam Matthew Digital.
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Handwritten Text Recognition Technology added to Literary Print CultureLiterary Print Culture, released in September 2017, made the archive of the Stationers’ Company, London digitally available to literary scholars and students.
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Indigenous Newspapers in North America – uncovering two centuries of important North American Indigenous journalismIndigenous Newspapers in North America, the vital new collection from Adam Matthew, provides digital access to 200 years of North American Indigenous journalism from a range of communities, historic pressings, and contemporary periodicals.
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Gender: Identity and Social Change now published; three centuries of digital primary sources documenting developments in gender roles and relationsStudents and scholars can now explore three centuries of primary source material documenting extensive developments in gender roles and relations. The expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
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Age Of Exploration now published: digital primary sources tracing voyage and discovery across five centuriesAge of Exploration, a new digital primary source collection is now available from Adam Matthew Digital. This collection tells the story of European maritime exploration from the earliest voyages of Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus, through the age of discovery, to the race for the Poles.
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J. Walter Thompson Company Archives digitised: discover the history of the world’s biggest brandsAdam Matthew Digital publishes prestigious American cultural history collection: J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America, providing access to the archive of one of the world’s oldest, largest and most innovative advertising agencies.
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World War Two service newspapers publishedThe story of war as told by rare and well-known publications circulated to the forces in major theatres across the globe. Adam Matthew Digital announces the publication of a landmark digital newspaper collection, Service Newspapers of World War Two, containing an extensive range of both rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theatres around the world.
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Foreign Office Files For Japan: formerly restricted government documents publishedA unique vantage point for research into a globally unstable political climate. Previously-restricted UK government documents, offering insight into the Allied occupation of post-war Japan, have been published within Adam Matthew Digital’s resource Foreign Office Files for Japan. Section II of this resource, published this month, covers The Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952. From 1946-1952 Japan was occupied by Allied Powers...
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Records of the East India Company now fully searchable using artificial intelligenceResearch the history of the first great multinational corporation with new digitised records sourced exclusively from the British Library. Students and scholars are now able to navigate their way through newly digitised manuscripts using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), with the latest release of new content in Adam Matthew Digital’s landmark primary source collection East India Company.
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Handwritten Text Recognition transforms access to the papers of Florence NightingaleMedical Services and Warfare, 1850-1927, the latest primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital, has transformed access to the personal and professional writings of Florence Nightingale with exclusive Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR). The HTR technology allows these handwritten papers to be fully searchable for the first time. Dr Patrick Spero, Director, American Philosophical Society Library, explains the...
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Adam Matthew Digital takes part in second Jisc group purchasing scheme supporting greater access to digital primary sourcesUK Higher Education institutions are now able to benefit from a second group purchasing initiative with Jisc which sees multiple Adam Matthew Digital research and teaching collections made available to purchase at an exceptional discount level.
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A Cultural Revolution: over four hundred years on the history of printing, publishing and bookselling digitisedLiterary Print Culture, the latest primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital, makes available The Stationers’ Company Archive with material from 1554 to the 21st Century. Widely regarded as one of the most important sources for the history of the book, publishing and copyright.
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Artificial intelligence transforms discoverability of seventeenth and eighteenth century manuscripts using Handwritten Text RecognitionAdam Matthew Digital is the first primary source publisher to utilise artificial intelligence to offer transformative search capabilities with Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for its manuscript collections. The first new collection available with this enhancement is Colonial America, Module III: The American Revolution.
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Bringing the important history of Canada’s past to institutions nationwideInstitutions across Canada can now benefit from full access to Frontier Life: Borderlands Settlement and Colonial Encounters, a digital collection of primary sources offering a glimpse into Canada’s unique historic past. Consortia Canada, Adam Matthew and 18 leading academic institutions have collaborated to open this essential content to libraries and educational institutions nationwide.
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Historic seventeenth and eighteenth century manuscript documents made fully searchable using artificial intelligenceAdam Matthew Digital is the first primary source publisher to work exclusively with Planet-AI, a science and R&D driven software company, to utilise Artificial Intelligence to offer transformative search capabilities with Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for its manuscript collections.
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Two centuries of global migration: motives and memoriesMigration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history, bringing together digitised material from twenty-six archives around the globe.
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Japan’s rise to modernity: British government documents publishedProviding significant insight into the events between First World War victory and Second World War defeat, Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952 offers access to formally restricted government documents presenting a unique vantage point into a globally unstable political climate.
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Selling the American dreamExplore the shaping of the United States throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with Trade Catalogues and the American Home. A new digitised collection of highly visual trade catalogues, cards and marketing ephemera illustrating the rise of the American dream and evolution of commercial tastes and consumer trends between 1850-1950.
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Jisc and Adam Matthew connect to make digital primary sources more accessible for UK Higher EducationUK Higher Education institutions are now able to benefit from a group purchasing pilot with Jisc which sees multiple Adam Matthew digital research and teaching collections made available to purchase at an exceptional discount level.
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Socialism on Film: “See The Other Side of The World”View the world through a communist lens – rare film footage from the twentieth century forms a new unrivalled collection enabling comparative global research: Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda. Unique in nature and scope, this Adam Matthew collection provides access to previously unseen footage captured by film makers from the USSR, Vietnam, Cuba, China, East Germany, Eastern Europe and more.