Streaming videos available thru the library
Four streaming video collections are available. Alexander Street Press and Films on Demand are multidisciplinary collections. The BBC Shakespeare Plays are available through Ambrose Digital. Allied Health and Health videos are accessible via Intelecom Online Resource Network.
Access links and information on these streaming video collections is below.
Alexander Street Press
Content: over 15,000 clips and full-length Flash-based streaming videos
Subjects: American History, Area Studies, Art & Architecture, Black Studies, Business & Economics, Classical Music, Counseling & Therapy, Criminal Justice & Public Safety, Current Affairs, Dance, Education, Ethnic Studies, Ethnography, Film Studies, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Health, Humanities, Opera, Psychology, Rehabilitation Therapy, Religion & Philosophy, Science, Sports Medicine and Exercise Science, Theatre, Women's & Gender Studies, World History, and World Language & Literature
Description: Award-winning films, documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and news reels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage from BBC, PBS, CBS, Documentary Educational Resources, California Newsreel, Opus Arte, Cinema Guild, Psychotherapy.net, Microtraining Associates, Filmakers Library, Zeitgeist, First Run Features, and more.
Access link: VAST: Academic Video Online
Database name for citation: VAST: Academic Video Online
Ambrose Video
Content: close-captioned videos of plays
Subjects: Shakespeare tragedies and comedies
Description: Flash-based videos of 37 BBC Shakespeare Plays created for BBC television from 1978-1985. Plays are viewable in their entirety or by act. Includes performances by Sir John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley, Claire Bloom, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Michael York, Alan Richman, John Cleese and Derek Jacobi.
Access link: The BBC Shakespeare Plays
Database name for citation: Ambrose Video
Films on Demand
Content: full-length close-captioned streaming videos in Flash and HTML5 formats
Subjects: Anthropology, Area Studies, Art & Architecture, Biology, Business & Economics, Communications, Computers & Technology, Criminal Justice, Earth Science, Education, English & Language Arts, Environmental Science, Geography, Health & Medicine, History, Mathematics, Music & Dance, Philosophy & Religion, Physical Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and World Languages.
Description: Videos from Ken Burns, BBC, Frontline, History, NOVA, Modern Marvels, Bill Moyers, PBS, TED, NBC News, American Experience, ABC Nightline, Cambridge Educational, and more.
Access link: Master Academic Collection
Database name for citation: Films on Demand
Intelecom Online Resources Network
Content: video-clip database
Subjects: Health & Allied Health
Description: Critical health issues
Link: Intelecom Health & Allied Health
Database name for citation: INTELECOM Online Resources Network
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