Founded in 2000 and located in Alexandria, Va., Alexander Street Press provides traditional publishing, librarianship and software development services to create large-scale digital collections. The company is an academic publisher of electronic full-text databases in the humanities, social sciences and music. It also publishes a wide collection of history, literature, music, women s studies, sociology, ethnic and diversity studies, popular culture, film studies, and the arts material. Alexander Street Press offers Latin-American history and literature, including books by Latin-American women writers and Latino literature in poetry, drama and fiction. It additionally provides books on North American history, history and literature on Africa. The company also publishes various articles covering a vast variety of topics.