General Streaming Media Platforms
- Streaming Media (Audio and Visual) Request FormIf you would like to request a film to stream during a class session or use for a student activity presented by a registered student group, please use our request form.
- Subject Specialist Librarian DirectoryIf you have questions, please contact your Subject Specialist Librarian.
- AVON This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 77,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
- Alexander Street Advanced Search SyntaxThe Alexander Street Video Platform does not have an advanced search form, but you can use advanced search syntax. Click the link here to learn more about search strategies.
How to search for and add videos from the AVON collection without leaving Canvas
- Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new windowKanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides access to more than 26,000 films. Kanopy works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.
- Kanopy Troubleshooting GuideHaving trouble linking to Kanopy off campus? Trying to use the app on your device? This guide has resources to help.
- Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new windowSwank is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides access to 1000s of films. Swank works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections. This service is restricted to faculty led courses, educational purposes and to support the curriculum, both in-person and online. The library cannot provide access for pure research purposes at any level.
- Alexander Street PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new windowThis collection of more than 1,600 streaming videos provides an exceptional range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS. From science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business & economics, and more, the PBS Video Collection: Fourth Edition provides access to one of television’s most trusted networks.
- Alexander Street Advanced Search SyntaxThe Alexander Street Video Platform does not have an advanced search form, but you can use advanced search syntax. Click the link here to learn more about search strategies.
Streaming Media for Social Sciences
- Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new windowOpposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowProvides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
- SAGE Knowledge VideosBrowse and search videos in the social, behavioral and health sciences.
- SAGE Research Methods VideosBrowse and search instructional videos to learn how to design and conduct online and digital research.
Henry Stewart Talks
Henry Stewart Talks publishes animated audio visual presentations by world leading experts - advanced content in a user friendly format. Covering business, biomedicine, and the life sciences. Every talk has been specially commissioned with informative visuals and synchronized narration.
Springer Nature Video
Browse videos on Springer's Subjects core subjects, including life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering, and economics.
- Child Care and Early Education Research ConnectionAdvanced search capabilities allow researchers to limit search to A/V resources. Choose "Multimedia" under the Resource Type filter.
- Chronicle of Higher Education VideosOriginal videos from the nation’s largest newsroom dedicated to covering colleges and universities.
- Early World of Learning Read AloudsChildren can follow along with the text as a narrator reads these simple stories.
- Early World of Learning VideosBrowse short videos on a variety of topics interesting to children.
- LearnTechLib TalksWatch full talks from global education conferences.
- WorldBook Kids VideosThis database allows for advanced search with a filter for video results. This link is a search for "a," but you can run a new search with any term.
- Sex & Sexuality This link opens in a new windowSex & Sexuality makes accessible the unpublished papers of prominent sexologists, sex researchers, societies, advocacy groups and campaigners working across America and beyond during the twentieth century. The collection also includes a significant proportion of correspondence between professional and private individuals, autobiographical accounts, official records and literary works.
- Esther Herbert Collection
- Video Interview
- Audio Recordings - Scroll to the hyperlink "audio interviews" in final paragraph.
- Video Search - Navigate to "Advanced Search" in upper right of the homepage. Filter search by Document Type: Video
- CIAO Video SearchSearch over 550 videos from Columbia International Affairs Online.
- Henry Stewart Talks: Global Business ManagementHenry Stewart Talks publishes animated audio visual presentations by world leading experts - advanced content in a user friendly format. Every talk has been specially commissioned with informative visuals and synchronized narration.
- ICRC Multimedia NewsroomVideo content issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Note: some footage may be triggering.
- Jane's Online This link opens in a new windowJane's is a global intelligence company specializing in military, national security, aerospace and transport topics. After conducting a search, choose "Document Type" filter on left-hand side to limit results to those with video content.
- OECD PodcastsStream podcasts in the OECD iLibrary, the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Digital Library This link opens in a new windowSearch engine with digitized versions of rare books and manuscripts from the Foundation's collection, a selection of reports on the buildings and people of 18th century Williamsburg, and the complete run of the Virginia Gazette to 1780. Over time, more resources will be added to this archive.
- Daily Life Through History This link opens in a new windowA searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present A virtual library of thousands of diverse sources: award-winning reference works, primary documents, illustrations, maps A key resource supporting courses in American history and literature.
- Audio Search - Click "Filter+" and choose "Audio" under the "Media" heading
- Video Search - Click "Filter+" and choose "Video" under the "Media" heading
- Oxford Biography AudioSearch podcast-style biographies of noteworthy Brits from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies.
- Dictionary of American Regional English This link opens in a new windowThe Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) contains American regional vocabulary from throughout the United States including the earliest known usage of each word, a sampling of other examples of use over time, and a contemporary example. This digital version offers interactive, multimedia tools that allow mapping of where words are used, among other features.
Audio is available in many entries. To retrieve audio results, first search a word. When results appear, navigate to the left-hand side of the screen under the heading "Refine Search." Choose the box "show results with: audio recordings." All filtered results will include audio, shown with the speaker icon. Click on a result and click on the play icon under an entry to hear the dialect example.
- Critical Value PodcastA podcast from the Urban Institute that explores issues of significance for research, policy, and people.
- Environmental Law Reporter This link opens in a new windowCovers State, Federal and International environmental law topics. Provides information about environmental litigation, pending litigation, news & analysis, administrative materials, and statutes.
- Federal Judicial Center MultimediaThe FJC is the research and educational support agency for the U.S. courts. Browse both videos and podcast content here.
- Federal Reserve VideosBrowse videos issued by the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States.
- Justice Today PodcastThe Justice Today podcast, offered by the US Department of Justice, explores how funding, science and technology impact public safety and justice in today’s complex environment.
- National association of counties This link opens in a new windowFeatures the National Association of Counties (NACo), based in Washington, D. C. NACo acts as a liaison with other levels of government, works to improve public understanding of counties, and serves as a national advocate for counties.
- OSHA VideoVideo offerings from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, US Department of Labor.
- Pew VideosBrowse and search videos from the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
- Presidential Recordings Program This link opens in a new windowThis site is a research website dedicated to the presidential recordings with highlights of conversations, recent news, and relevant research material. The site is hosted and maintained by the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.
- Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new windowThe Psychotherapy.net streaming video collection provides access to training videos in the field of counseling, psychotherapy, psychology, and addiction. The majority of the videos show therapists actually conducting therapy and demonstrating clinical skills, along with pre- and post-session discussion.
DSM/Psychiatry Online Podcasts
- AJP PodcastEach episode of AJP Audio brings you an in-depth look at one of the articles featured in that month’s issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry. Wide-ranging interviews with article authors cover the background, rationale, main findings, and future implications of the research.
- Finding Our VoiceFinding Our Voice brings the viewpoints and opinions of the next generation of psychiatrists—including residents, fellows, and early career psychiatrists—to the forefront. Each episode focuses on systemic racism within a racial, ethnic, or minority group.
- Mentally Healthy NationMentally Healthy Nation is the voice of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation. This podcast features candid conversations with psychiatrists and other experts about various aspects of mental health that impact our community, where we live, learn, work, worship, and play.
- Psychiatric News BriefWith the American Psychiatric Association’s new flash briefing, Psychiatric News Brief, you can now listen to synopses of curated articles from Psychiatric News.
- Psychiatric Services From Pages to PracticePsychiatric Services Editor Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H., and Podcast Editor and co-host Josh Berezin, M.D., M.S., discuss key aspects of research recently published by Psychiatric Services.
- Psychiatry UnboundAPA Publishing's Books podcast, hosted by APA Books Editor-in-Chief, Laura Roberts, M.D. Psychiatry Unbound offers the opportunity to hear the voices behind the most prominent psychiatric scholarship in the field today.
- American Anthropological Association Podcast LibraryThe AAA partners with relevant podcasts in an effort to increase collaboration between members and the field at large, and enhance the public’s general understanding of anthropology.
- Max Plank Institute for the Study of SocietiesExplore both video and audio recordings from the MPIfG Annual Colloquium.