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Déirdre Joyce, Head of Digital Stewardship and the Digital Library, Syracuse University, documents the establishment of the Libraries' Department of Digital Stewardship, and how a new digital library model, which includes AM Quartex at its heart, was developed to provide patrons with improved digital access to the university's special collections.

AM’s latest publication, British Newsreels, 1911-1930, is an exciting new video resource based on over 6,000 early twentieth century Topical Budget newsreels drawn from the British Film Institute and the Imperial War Museums.

AM has announced a new partnership with the digitisation solution provider Microform, which will see the digital collections platform AM Quartex made available as an enhancement to Microform’s digitisation service offering to libraries and archives.

The stories of LGBTQ+ people throughout history are notoriously difficult to uncover. It is, then, to the rare, personal queer archive that we must turn to find insights into lives and complex experiences that may subvert our expectations of straightforward stories. The personal archive of Michael B sheds light on one such story.

Drawn from the vast records of the British Colonial Office held at The National Archives, UK, this unique collection documents the governance of 25 territories in the Caribbean, spotlighting a wide range of themes and narratives.

AM has partnered with Preservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation archiving. The collaboration will result in an integration that offers libraries and archives a well-rounded digital ecosystem to protect and publish their digital assets.

Find out more about the newest addition to our Archives Direct portfolio, the first part of Conflict in Indochina: 1959-1964. Through reports, memoranda, photographs, maps, and economic data, researchers and students are afforded a behind-the-scenes look at a time of crisis and upheaval for the region following French decolonisation.

Rice University's archives, special collections and digitised copies of rare books are now easier to discover than ever before, in a new digital repository built using AM Quartex, chosen for its innovative automated transcription capabilities and the ability to translate non-English content.

Explore AM's groundbreaking Open Access archive dedicated to Shakespeare's First Folios. This innovative online platform allows researchers, students, and Shakespeare enthusiasts worldwide to explore and compare copies of the renowned First Folio. The project marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, a seminal collection of William Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623.

AM's new digital resource, allows researchers to delve into the RSC's extensive production history to explore how the works of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and other playwrights have been performed since the late nineteenth century.

The Cape Ann Museum is celebrating 400 years of the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a new digital archive, built using AM Quartex.

AI-powered automated transcription services are being leveraged to broaden access and discovery of the International Mission Board’s manuscript materials and upcoming oral history collections, as well as to create workflow efficiencies and accelerate the publication of new collections.

AM’s latest collection Broadcasting America invites students and researchers to explore the rise of mass media and communications in the twentieth century.

Library Journal has named The Gilded Age and Progressive Era and Mass Observation Project in its annual Best Reference Picks.

Africa and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914 is a ground-breaking collection providing the most extensive resource covering Africa in the age of New Imperialism; a major period of colonial expansion that sent shockwaves that are still felt today. These were 44 years that reshaped the African continent and transformed the modern world.

Scanning historical documents and making them available to scholars in digital format helps to increase their accessibility. AI-driven Handwritten Text Recognition is helping to further overcome key limitations faced by researchers in accessing handwritten letters and  manuscripts.

Researchers of US/Mexico border heritage can now consult newly digitised materials from signature archival collections held by El Paso Public Library, in its new digital archive built using AM Quartex.

AM Research Methods entered CHOICE’s annual Outstanding Academic Title list as a highly recommended resource with an outstanding review.

Historically significant collections documenting the history of Samford University and religious life in Alabama are among those featured in the Samford University Digital Collections, launched in AM Quartex. Serving the university community, genealogists and researchers of Baptist and Alabama history, the reimagined collections are more accessible and easy to use for people across the world.

AM has announced a major new agreement with premier library consortium, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA). Students, researchers and scholars at 15 of the leading research institutions in the United States will now have unified access to millions of pages of essential primary source content from AM.

Comprising correspondence between the East India Company and British Government departments, the latest module continues the digitisation of its vast archives and astonishing history.

Cork City Libraries has relaunched five of the most popular collections from its Cork Past and Present website in a pilot use case of AM Quartex, the digital collections platform from award-winning primary source publisher, AM.

Alex Cherian, TV Archivist at the Bay Area TV Archive, discusses the Quartex A/V Pilot Project and the growing importance of audio-visual collections for today’s researchers.

Comprising government papers drawn from The National Archives, UK, the second module of Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, titled Foundations of Economic Growth and Industrialisation 1967-1980, charts a period of immense change and development across the region.