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Alexander Street Press is an electronic academic database publisher. Its "Academic Video Online" collection includes videos in a range of subject areas, including news programs (notably shows like 60 Minutes), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. The Academic Video Online: Premium collection would be useful for researching topics related to science, history, music and dance, anthropology, business, counseling and therapy, news, nursing, drama, and more. For more details see their website.
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- You have a minimum of 500 edits to the encyclopedia
- You do not already have access to this resource through another library or institution
If you don't quite meet the experience requirements but think you would still be a strong candidate for access, feel free to apply and you may be considered
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Approved editors may
- Search, view, retrieve, and display portions of restricted content;
- Electronically save portions of restricted content;
- Print out single copies of portions of restricted content;
Approved editors will not
- Share their account logins or passwords with others, or sell their access to other parties
- Mass scrape or mass download Alexander Street content
- Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of restricted content available for any purpose.
- Datamine metadata without permission, in order, for instance, to use metadata for auto-created stub articles.
- Violate any terms and conditions which appear on the particular pages of the Alexander Street website they are accessing.
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- Editors should always provide original citation information in addition to linking to Alexander Street resources, per WP:V and WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT.
- Editors should not provide bare links to restricted Alexander Street pages
- Note (subscription required) in the citation, where appropriate
- Respect the copyright of Alexander Street, in accordance with Wikipedia's copyright policy and their terms of use
- Cite resources in line with the citation examples provided below or with the examples provided by Alexander Street
- Note that citation styles vary by article; editors can use the style most appropriate to the articles they are working with so long as the citations are complete.
Example
<ref name="java jive">{{cite AV media | people=Ozier, David (dir) | year=2000 | title=Java Jive | medium=Documentary | url=http://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/764830 | publisher=National Film Board of Canada | accessdate=3 March 2016 | subscription=yes | via=[[Alexander Street]]}}</ref>
- Ozier, David (dir) (2000). Java Jive (Documentary). National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 3 March 2016 – via Alexander Street. (subscription required (help)).
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- Fredericknoronha (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I work to promote online information about documentary film in India, and run the Docuwallahs2 network online [1] This could help me to contribute similarly to En-Wikipedia too.fredericknoronha (talk) 06:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
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Tomwsulcer (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Been at Wikipedia about 7 years, edit all kinds of articles, science, politics, language, biographies; some articles I've revamped are here. I have over 100+million pageviews from articles and images.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:27, 19 March 2016 (UTC)- Tomwsulcer
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02:03, 22 March 2016 (UTC) -- Just noting -- I never got an email with instructions to register.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 14:19, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
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- Arian Ar (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email)Arian Ar (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I'm looking for documentary's regarding Military History specially US military to expand those articles in my home project(Mostly Stubs). --Arian Ar (talk) 09:55, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Softlavender (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have created and contributed substantially to Wikipedia articles on music, theatre, dance, documentaries, history, business, etc. Softlavender (talk) 06:50, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Natalie.Desautels (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) This amazing service will be an excellent resource for my research in creating, editing and translating articles in many areas; ...strong interest in classical music, especially classical and flamenco guitar but in many areas as well outside of music. --Natalie.Desautels (talk) 14:01, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Ciridae (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) This resource contains Street Literature which would be a great help for me in contributing to such articles. I have a strong interest in novels and other fiction. I would also love to have access to the science and tech collections, especially related to computer science. Ciridae (talk) 04:27, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Icerat (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Mostly focused on business related articles. Actually currently involved in trying to source a copy of a Sixty Minutes episode, so this would be perfect! :)--Icerat (talk) 12:54, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Nvvchar (talk · contribs · count) I cover a wide range of subjects in many disciplines not only of my country (India) but also in many countries of the world. As of today, I have 1483 DYks and 66 GA's to my credit. Having access to reference tools would be very helpful in my work. ThanksNvvchar. 13:48, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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03:04, 6 April 2016 (UTC) - Hi, Nvvchar. Allowing email from other users does not appear to be enabled in your user preferences. Please enable email, or send an email to me. You can email me by clicking on the Email user link found on my user or talk page. I need to email you a link to a form you need to fill out. Once I get the form back from you then I can send you your login ID and login password for Alexander Street Press. To enable email, go to your user preferences (first checkbox 2/3 way down page), tick the box for Enable email from other users, and save your changes. Ping me back. Cheers!
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17:52, 1 April 2016 (UTC).- Hi, Checkingfax. Thanks. I have enabled my e-mail address. Nvvchar. 00:58, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
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- Hmich176 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have been on English Wikipedia for 10 years. This resource would be useful for research that I do for articles on Wikipedia. I have over 7000 edits.
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- Tom29739 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) This resource would be very helpful to me in finding citations for many articles I edit, like documentaries for military history articles, and several other areas of work. Thanks, Tom29739 [talk] 21:36, 12 April 2016 (UTC).
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- Amqui (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Amqui (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I contribute in many subjects including but not limited to geography, history, anthropology, natural sciences, religions, military, zoology, on French Wikipedia. This resource will be helpul in my research to develop and create articles. Thanks, Amqui (talk) 06:02, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
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- X4n6 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I edit throughout the project, but regularly work on theatre, music, history and biographies. This would be a useful resource. Thanks. X4n6 (talk) 00:02, 5 February 2017 (UTC)