About the publisher

Alexander Street is a premier publisher of scholarly databases in the arts, humanities, and social sciences founded in May 2000 with the goal of publishing large-scale digital collections of exceptional quality. The publisher produces databases that are comprehensively indexed and cross referenced by discipline-specific teams of scholars, ensuring that users are easily able to find the most relevant, useful content and disciplines including History, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Drama, & Film, Religion, Sociology and Psychology.

Burgundy offer to eIFL countries and how to subscribe

Burgundy Information Services is pleased to include a specially selected range of products from Alexander Street Press in our eIFL collections for a period of 3 years from 2009. This package provides e-only access to a range of their award winning resources in Music, Drama, Social History and Cultural History – including access to a huge collection of anthologies, encyclopedias, images, lyrics (digitized and fully searchable), songsheets, chronologies, critical textbooks, biographies, letters and diaries and much more.

If you are a librarian from an institution in one the eIFL countries and would either like to know whether your institution has access to these products or how to gain access to them, please get in touch with your country coordinator.

If you are a country coordinator, the agreement between eIFL and Burgundy can be found at the MEMBERS ONLY area of our website, under "Publishers" section. Please look under the heading of "Burgundy Information Services". If you want access to be activated, please contact Paul Calow at paul[at]burgundyservices.com to send you the license.

Support and promotional resources for librarians

The attachments below offer very detailed overviews on all digital collections published by Alexander Press and on  its Music portfolio.