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A NEW PUBLISHING INITIATIVE: WASM SCHOLAR'S EDITION-- MARCH 2007

Strong interest in our database on local and state commissions on the status of women permits us to offer it as part of an expanded version of WASM, Scholar's Edition. The Scholar's Edition will include WASM as you have come to know it, our database on Women's State Commissions, and an online edition of Notable American Women. We're beginning this expansion by publishing a preliminary version of the database of all publications of local and state commissions on the status of women and fabulous related reports on gender bias in state courts. We expect the database to include 75,000 pages of primary sources published between 1963 and 2004. We are merging this resource into Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 and in this way we'll be taking full advantage of WASM's database and searching capabilities. Later this year we will add to this package an online, indexed and searchable, edition of the classic biographical dictionary, Notable American Women. We are very excited to have this resource in WASM Scholar's Edition. For a modest additional charge, WASM subscribers can upgrade from the Basic to the Scholar's Edition. Have your acquisitions librarian contact Eileen Lawrence at Alexander Street Press (Lawrence@astreetpress.com or 800-889-5937 ext. 211 (U.S. and Canada) or 703-212-8520 ext. 211 (international)) for prices, which will range from $150 to $1000 a year, depending on the size and budget of your library.

The new Scholar's Edition (and its resources from commissions on the status of women) will be freely accessible during the month of March. Link to http://wass.alexanderstreet.com to view it.

LUNCHEON AT THE OAH MEETING IN MINNEAPOLIS--MARCH 31, 2007

WASM will have a lot going on at the OAH and you are invited to join us. First, we are sponsoring a luncheon, Saturday, March 31, 11:15-12:45 in the Rochester Room at the Minneapolis Hilton. Kitty Sklar, Tom Dublin, and Stephen Rhind-Tutt will talk about the Scholar's Edition including our plans to integrate the documents from the status of women commissions and Notable American Women into this expanded version of the website. If you would like to attend, lunch is free, but we need you to reserve a place in advance. Please email tdublin@binghamton.edu to hold a place.

In addition, WASM and ASP are co-sponsors of the Women's Committee reception that will be held Saturday at 5:30 P.M. More details in your pocket program at the meeting.

New Online Scholarly Community

In April 2006 we launched a freely-accessible, online scholarly community, "The 'Second Wave' and Beyond," moderated by Professors Judith Ezekiel, Stephanie Gilmore and Kimberly Springer. This is a site with threaded discussions, periodic hosting by notable feminists and feminist scholars, and use of Wiki technology that permits users to publish documents and images on the site. You can access the site at http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com. Give this new resource a look.

Submissions of Syllabi

Faculty have frequently included all or part of document projects as readings in undergraduate courses on United States History and U.S. Women's History. To provide users of the website with examples of such assignments, we invite colleagues to send us course syllabi that use the website. We will post selected syllabi on our Teaching Tools section. Professor Paivi Hoikkala of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona has agreed to serve as editor for this section. If you use the website in your teaching, please send a copy of your syllabus to Paivi Hoikkala for consideration for publication on the "Selected Syllabi" page. Professor Hoikkala will be in touch with you about your prospective contribution.

Submissions of Document Projects

The Women and Social Movements website is now accepting submissions of document projects for consideration for online publication. If you think you might be interested in preparing a document project for publication on the website, please contact our Co-Director, Tom Dublin, and he will send you more information.

We are particularly interested in expanding our coverage of early American history and of recent women's history. Please see our Call for Proposals for projects focusing on Second Wave Feminism, 1960-1990, and projects focusing on Women and Public Life in the Colonial and Early National Eras, 1600-1830.

News from the Archives

In the upcoming year we will inaugurate a new feature on the website, "News from the Archives," to provide timely notice of news from archives and repositories of interest to researchers in U.S. Women's History. Have there been recent developments in your library that would be of interest to historians working in the field of U.S. Women's History? Have you recently acquired or processed new collections and would like to publish a notice that will reach a broad audience? If you have news that you would like to disseminate through the quarterly journal and database, please contact Tanya Zanish-Belcher, the editor of this new section of the website.

We hope this new feature will be widely used by archivists and historians. We look forward to hearing from you and developing this resource.

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