Alexander Street Literature

Overview

Alexander Street Literature offers cross-searchable access to eight individual collections including 600,000 pages of poetry, short stories, novels, and non-fiction.

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Agreement term

Until 31 December 2013

Eligible countries

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Cambodia, Cameroon, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Palestine, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Institutions in the countries above: if you are interested in gaining access to Alexander Street Literature, please contact your EIFL-Licensing Coordinator.

Pricing and licences

Available to members only here.

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Subject coverage

Literature

Key features

The following individual collections are all cross-searchable: Black Short Fiction and Folklore, Black Women Writers, Caribbean Literature, South and Southeast Asian Literature, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, and Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
Rich in sociological and historical significance, the collection delivers the literatures of place, gender, and race.
New content added on a regular basis.

Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ and powerful search capabilities allow users to explore and analyse the content in ways that are impossible in paper form.
Libraries that subscribe to both Alexander Street Literature and Alexander Street Drama can cross-search content from both services via a single interface.