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Arts & Humanities (11)

• Academic Video Online

  Cross-searchable interface to all Alexander Street Press streaming video products. WFU access currently includes Counseling and Therapy in Video, Flimakers Library Online, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video. Subject(s): Film, Communication, Multi Subject Databases

• American Song

  This streaming music database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. Subject(s): Music, American History

• ARTstor

  The ARTstor Digital Library provides images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Comprises contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Images form ARTstor are for noncommercial educational or scholarly use only. Images may be used in educational or scholarly presentations, including printed handouts, but may not be otherwise distributed or publicly displayed. Subject(s): A & H - General, Art History, World History, Primary Sources, Anthropology

• CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online

  Rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources. Subject(s): Primary Sources, Art History

• Classical Music Library

  Licensed streaming classical music from multiple labels. Includes contemporary music and women composers. Subject(s): Music

• DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)

  Streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. The primary focus is the preservation and dissemination of important recordings that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace. Subject(s): Music

• Filmakers Library Online

  Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum - race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Subject(s): Film, Communication, Multi Subject Databases, Soc Sci - General, Sociology, Politics & Government, Ethnic & Area Studies, Gender Studies

• Opera in Video

  Streaming video of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Multiple performances and stagings of the major operas, from Baroque to the 20th century, allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors. Subject(s): Music, Performing Arts

• PBS videos

  Streaming video from PBS Subject(s): Multi Subject Databases, A & H - General, Education - General, Sci/Tech - General, Soc Sci - General

• Smithsonian Global Sound

  Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies. Subject(s): Music, Ethnic & Area Studies

• Theatre in Video

  Streaming video of definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries. Users can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging. Includes the BBC Shakespeare Collection. Subject(s): Performing Arts

Education (1)

• PBS videos

  Streaming video from PBS Subject(s): Multi Subject Databases, A & H - General, Education - General, Sci/Tech - General, Soc Sci - General

Ethnic, Area, & Gender Studies (2)

• Filmakers Library Online

  Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum - race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Subject(s): Film, Communication, Multi Subject Databases, Soc Sci - General, Sociology, Politics & Government, Ethnic & Area Studies, Gender Studies

• Smithsonian Global Sound

  Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies. Subject(s): Music, Ethnic & Area Studies

History (3)

• American Song

  This streaming music database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. Subject(s): Music, American History

• ARTstor

  The ARTstor Digital Library provides images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Comprises contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Images form ARTstor are for noncommercial educational or scholarly use only. Images may be used in educational or scholarly presentations, including printed handouts, but may not be otherwise distributed or publicly displayed. Subject(s): A & H - General, Art History, World History, Primary Sources, Anthropology

• CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online

  Rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources. Subject(s): Primary Sources, Art History

Reference Sources (4)

• Academic Video Online

  Cross-searchable interface to all Alexander Street Press streaming video products. WFU access currently includes Counseling and Therapy in Video, Flimakers Library Online, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video. Subject(s): Film, Communication, Multi Subject Databases

• Filmakers Library Online

  Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum - race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Subject(s): Film, Communication, Multi Subject Databases, Soc Sci - General, Sociology, Politics & Government, Ethnic & Area Studies, Gender Studies

• PBS videos

  Streaming video from PBS Subject(s): Multi Subject Databases, A & H - General, Education - General, Sci/Tech - General, Soc Sci - General

• Vanderbilt Television News Archive

  A catalog of news broadcasts. Contains streaming video of NBC nightly news broadcasts (August 1968 to present) and CNN broadcasts (1995 to present); video requires RealPlayer. Also contains abstracts of evening news broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CBS from August 1968 to present; daily news programs from CNN (1995 to present), FOX News (2004 to present), and ABC Nightline (12 September 1988 to present); and a selection of special programs, including coverage of political events, events related to September 11, 2001, and more. Content is added approximately 72 hours after it was broadcast. Loan requests accepted for video of broadcasts that are not available online (fees apply). Coverage: August 1968 to present. Subject(s): News & Current Events

Science & Technology (1)

• PBS videos

  Streaming video from PBS Subject(s): Multi Subject Databases, A & H - General, Education - General, Sci/Tech - General, Soc Sci - General

Social Sciences (5)

• Academic Video Online

  Cross-searchable interface to all Alexander Street Press streaming video products. WFU access currently includes Counseling and Therapy in Video, Flimakers Library Online, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video. Subject(s): Film, Communication, Multi Subject Databases

• ARTstor

  The ARTstor Digital Library provides images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Comprises contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Images form ARTstor are for noncommercial educational or scholarly use only. Images may be used in educational or scholarly presentations, including printed handouts, but may not be otherwise distributed or publicly displayed. Subject(s): A & H - General, Art History, World History, Primary Sources, Anthropology

• Counseling and Therapy in Video

  Streaming video collection for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Includes filmed footage of actual, re-enacted, and scripted therapy sessions; videos of experts in particular courses of therapy advising other therapists; lectures; and documentaries. Many videos include downloadable supplementary materials. Subject(s): Psychology, Counseling

• Filmakers Library Online

  Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum - race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Subject(s): Film, Communication, Multi Subject Databases, Soc Sci - General, Sociology, Politics & Government, Ethnic & Area Studies, Gender Studies

• PBS videos

  Streaming video from PBS Subject(s): Multi Subject Databases, A & H - General, Education - General, Sci/Tech - General, Soc Sci - General