Happy New Semester! To celebrate our fresh new semester we're rolling out the fresh new look for Alexander Street Press (ASP).
Alexander Street Press has updated their interface. We are in
the process of moving all of our links to the new links. The searching will still work
either way, but if you want to use the new interface, just go to the Music
Research Guide here: http://uncg.libguides.com/mus and go to the
Audio/Video Recordings tab. Or just go straight to this page: http://search.alexanderstreet.com.libproxy.uncg.edu/music-performing-arts
Here’s
what you can experience in the first release:
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Powerful
faceted browsing capabilities: Browse content with “smart facets” that change
as you search, allowing you quickly to find exactly what you’re looking for.
It’s as if the interface knows what you’re asking.
•
A
new video player and toolbar that lets you bookmark your place in a video,
choose between multiple layouts; and bit-rate streaming that automatically
adjusts to the highest quality file the user’s bandwidth can support. This is
all in addition to the functionality you expect in Alexander Street video:
thumbnails, visual table of contents, and clip and playlist creation.
•
A
waveform view on our audio player pages that lets you view the music being
played and create, annotate, and share audio clips.
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Discipline-
and genre-based landing pages with featured content and editorially-curated
playlists.
•
The
ability to translate every page, liner note, and transcript into dozens of
languages using Google Translate.
•
Tools
for exporting citations in MLA, Chicago, and APA formats.
And
here’s what will be available on the new interface over the next year:
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A
dedicated smartphone app, in addition to the “send to mobile” tool you’re
already using.
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Outbound
discovery—your Alexander Street content will link out to select Internet
archives, greatly expanding the content available to your users at no charge,
and all semantically indexed to make it cross-searchable with the other
Alexander Street content.
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Fully
text-searchable liner notes displayed along select albums.
•
Most
content within the music video products will have searchable, scrolling
transcripts alongside the videos.
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Dedicated
learning object apps that let you:
◦
Develop
online quizzes
◦
Create
digital study guides
◦
Build
timelines
Also,
be aware that in our transitional time it might say “access denied,” the track might
still play, so be sure to try listening before you give up. I’m sure that will
be resolved soon. And let me know (sbdorsey@uncg.edu) if you have
frustrations and we’ll get you connected asap! Thank you for your patience!
