Accessible Archives and University of Delaware Complete Partnership

MALVERN, Pa., May 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- An agreement between Accessible Archives and the University of Delaware's (UD) Colored Conventions Project (CCP) will allow the innovative use of Accessible Archives' databases. These include African American Newspapers: The 19^th Century, The Liberator and National Anti-Slavery Standard. Accessible Archives' extension of its standard academic use license will expose those important materials, and additional collections, to the many visitors to the CCP website.

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The CCP is a digital collection and teaching website used by students, community scholars and professors across the globe.  This agreement allows CCP, along with the project's national teaching partners and the thousands of students who engage in original research through CCP's curriculum, to present images from Accessible Archives' databases on its ColoredConventions.org website. The agreement was coordinated by Unlimited Priorities LLC, the exclusive sales and marketing representative for Accessible Archives.

"The CCP, which brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life, is pleased to partner with Accessible Archives and to celebrate the company's long history of productive partnerships with UD," said P. Gabrielle Foreman, the project's faculty director and Ned B. Allen Professor of English and professor of history and Black American studies at UD. "The historic Colored Conventions were symbiotically connected with many of the 19th-century African American newspapers offered by Accessible Archives, so this agreement will be a great boon for Colored Conventions' many users."

Ann Ardis, UD's senior vice provost for graduate and professional education and director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, which provided CCP with its first funding, also praised the agreement. "We are thrilled that Accessible Archives will play such a pivotal role in our public humanities outreach to share this rich chapter of African American history," Ardis said. "With the help of Accessible Archives, the Colored Conventions Project will add greatly to contemporary understandings of the long history of African American struggles for racial justice."

Iris L. Hanney, Unlimited Priorities president, responded: "Unlimited Priorities specializes in creating partnerships that provide researchers with better access to relevant content.  As the goals of Accessible Archives and University of Delaware were totally in synch, this agreement will benefit the entire information community."

About Accessible Archives, Inc.

Accessible Archives utilizes a team of digital technology and conversion specialists to provide vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microform, hard copy or as images only.  Databases containing diverse primary source materials – leading books, newspapers and periodicals – reflect broad views across 18th and 19th century American. .Accessible Archives will continue to add titles covering important topics and time periods to assist scholars and students at all academic levels. Unlimited Priorities LLC is the exclusive sales and marketing agent for Accessible Archives.

About Unlimited Priorities LLC

Unlimited Priorities LLC utilizes its highly skilled group of professionals to provide a variety of support services to small and medium-sized companies in the information industry.  The Archival Initiatives Division (AID) offers practical consultative services to libraries, historical societies and associations.  AID provides advice and assistance in archival content selection, rights ownership, project management, workflow analysis, production, distribution of converted content and interaction with commercial entities.  We recognize that each location or organization is unique, requiring customized and locally-based solutions.  By coordinating a library's project requirements with commercial firms' interests, Unlimited Priorities creates an atmosphere of mutual cooperation while organizing a successful process at a reasonable cost. 

SOURCE Accessible Archives, Inc.