Accessible Archives Inc.

First Newspaper Published for Women

Malvern, PA (April 18, 2012) – Accessible Archives, Inc.®, a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced the imminent availability of The Lily, the first newspaper published for women in the United States.

The Lily takes its place as the ninth database compiled by Accessible Archives.  Under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer it was first published in Seneca Falls, New York 1849-1853, and later in Mount Vernon, Ohio 1854-1856, eventually attaining a national circulation of over 6,000.  Priced at 50 cents a year, The Lily began as a temperance journal for “home distribution” among members of the Seneca Falls Ladies Temperance Society, which had formed in 1848.  It was not at first a radical paper, its editorial stance conforming to the emerging stereotype of women as “defenders of the home”.

While The Lily always maintained its focus on temperance – fillers often told horror stories about the effects of alcohol – the newspaper soon began to include articles about other subjects of interest to women, many from the pen of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  Stanton’s earliest articles dealt with temperance, child-bearing and education, but she soon turned to the issue of women’s rights, writing about laws unfair to women and demanding change.  Bloomer’s name also became associated with an unusual pants-and-tunic outfit that came to be known as the “Bloomer costume” because she wrote illustrated articles about it in The Lily and wore the costume herself.

Tom Nagy, Accessible Archives COO, discussed the new database: “Our decision to make The Lily available was influenced by requests from customers already accessing our database, Godey’s Lady’s Book.  The Lily’s local and national focus on both temperance and women’s rights provides a unique complement to our other databases.”

About Accessible Archives, Inc.

Founded in 1990, Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology and a team of conversion specialists to provide vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat, hard copy or as images only. Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. Developed by dedicated instructors and students of Americana, these databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current.  Accessible Archives will continue to add titles covering important topics and time periods to assist scholars and students at all academic levels.  Accessible Archives has retained Unlimited Priorities as its exclusive sales and marketing agent.

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Move Reflects Company Growth and Expansion

Tom Nagy, COO of Accessible Archives, Inc.®, a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced the relocation and expansion of the company’s corporate office. The new location is:

Accessible Archives, Inc.
5 Great Valley Parkway, Suite 216
Malvern, PA 19355
(610)296-7441, fax (610)725-1745
tnagy@accessible.com
www.accessible-archives.com

About Accessible Archives, Inc.

Founded in 1990, Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology and a team of conversion specialists to provide vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat, hard copy or as images only.  The company has assembled periodicals, books and newspapers from colonial and early America into comprehensive databases that address the needs of students, scholars and researchers of those periods. Beginning with a single database – The Pennsylvania Gazette – Accessible Archives has experienced rapid growth, expanding its offerings to eight current databases and has announced the imminent availability of a ninth, The Lily, a temperance and feminist publication and the first newspaper for women to be published in the United States. The American Revolution, the Civil War, African-American newspapers, women’s history and many additional subject areas are covered through the diverse comprehensive materials found within the database collections.

Accessible Archives will continue to add titles covering important topics and time periods to assist scholars and students at all academic levels. As an example, the American County Histories database, currently providing holdings from the New England and Mid-Atlantic states, has announced new coverage of the Southeast with intentions to expand into the Southwest, Central and West regions of the country during the course of this year. This additional access will provide genealogists and local and family history researchers with in-depth Information concerning local history, geology, geography, transportation, government, churches, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, cemeteries, family histories, health and vital statistics, and many additional subject areas.

Accessible Archives has retained Unlimited Priorities LLC® as its exclusive sales and marketing agent. Further information about Accessible Archives and its current offerings may be found here at www.accessible-archives.com.

Two Additional Databases to be Discoverable in EBSCO Discovery Service™

Malvern, PA (March 13, 2012) — Accessible Archives, Inc.®, a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has expanded its partnership with EBSCO Publishing to include American County Histories to 1900: New England and The Civil War: Parts V and IV in EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). The agreement allows metadata from these two resources to be added to the Base Index of EDS.

Some 5,000 published county histories provide historians and genealogists with regional overviews and general community conditions. The volumes in American County Histories to 1900: New England contain detailed information about history, geology, geography, government, family history and many other subject areas related to the New England area. County histories from additional areas of the country will continue to be added. The Civil War: Parts V and IV presents various aspects of the Civil War from both Iowa and Midwestern perspectives through period books and newspapers.

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Upgraded Search Capabilities Enhance Access

Malvern, PA (March 7, 2012) – Accessible Archives, Inc.®, an electronic publisher of full-text primary source historical databases, has announced the expansion its collection American County Histories to 1900. The initial addition, The Southeast, will complement the New England and The Mid-Atlantic regional collections. Included states are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Future plans call for additional coverage of states within the Southwest, Central and West regions.

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Malvern, PA (January 17, 2012) — Accessible Archives, Inc.®, a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, is pleased to announce that it will be fully Shibboleth® compliant by April of this year. Shibboleth is a registered trademark of Internet2, an advanced networking consortium led by the U.S. research and education community. Shibboleth is used by the the 900-member UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research to provide a single solution for accessing online resources and services.

The Shibboleth System is a standards based, open source software package, rapidly growing in popularity. It provides web-based single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner. The Shibboleth software implements widely used federated identity standards to provide a single sign-on and attribute exchange framework. Shibboleth also provides extended privacy functionality allowing the browser user and their home site to control the attributes released to each application. Using Shibboleth-enabled access simplifies management of identity and permissions for organizations supporting users and applications.

Tom Nagy, Accessible Archives COO, commented: “We are pleased to join this rapidly growing community and offer Shibboleth technology in addition to IP and username-password authentication to provide transparent access to our resources for our end users. When we embarked on distributing our content in the Europe where Shibboleth is widely used, we realized quickly that users must have a familiar and easy to use means of access allowing their patrons to access Accessible Archives without additional authentication.”

About Accessible Archives, Inc.

Founded in 1990, Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology and a team of conversion specialists to provide vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat, hard copy or as images only. Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. Developed by dedicated instructors and students of Americana, these databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current. Accessible Archives will continue to add titles covering important topics and time periods to assist scholars and students at all academic levels. Accessible Archives has retained Unlimited Priorities as its exclusive sales and marketing agent.

Contact

Exclusive Sales & Marketing Agent:
Iris L. Hanney, President
239-549-2384
iris.hanney@unlimitedpriorities.com
www.unlimitedpriorities.com

Technologist:
Joe Paulsen
866-296-1488
jpaulsen@accessible.com
www.accessible-archives.com

UK Representative:
Howard Stanbury
44-1865-764022
howard.stanbury@unlimitedpriorities.com
www.unlimitedpriorities.com