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  • 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. artwork images primary sources video multimedia

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  • 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. Coverage: Details not available. video multimedia

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  • Dance Online: Dance in Video
    Dance Online: Dance in Video provides 900 hours of video content covering the full scope of 20th and 21st century dance. The collection includes performances, documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos from the most influential performers and companies. video multimedia
  • Digital Theatre+
    Digital Theatre+ provides access to hundreds of theatre productions and educational resources covering English and the Performing Arts. video multimedia
  • Digitalia Film Library
    Digitalia Film Library is a multilingual, multi-national collection of films from Spain, France, other European and eastern European countries, North American Classic films, and Latin American films from many Latin American countries including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil (Portuguese). Digitalia is also adding new Cuban films. video multimedia
  • 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. video multimedia
  • Drama Online
    Drama Online is a unique online resource published by Bloomsbury Publishing, of over 1,000 full-text plays and 100+ related reference works. Accessible collections include the Core Collection, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 1&2, and Shakespeare in the Present. literary texts video multimedia

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  • 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. Coverage: Details not available. multi-subject databases video multimedia
  • Films on Demand – Master Academic Collection
    17,000+ videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. multi-subject databases video multimedia
  • New Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
    The Fortunoff Archive (hosted by Yale) holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which were produced in cooperation with thirty-six affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Users must create an account and be on campus or VPN in order to access testimonies. primary sources video multimedia

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  • Getty Open Content
    Hosted by the Getty Research Institute. Search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids. This link initially limits your search to images available for free download under the Getty's Open Content Program. Coverage: Details not available. artwork images primary sources video multimedia

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  • HistoryMakers
    The HistoryMakers is the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. A non-profit educational institution, the organization is committed to preserving, developing and providing access to an internationally recognized archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories. Includes recordings of stories of both the well-known and unsung African Americans from diverse backgrounds. Currently, over 10,000 hours of primary source video content are accessible on The HistoryMakers Digital Archive, with more content being added each week. video multimedia

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  • JoVE Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology
    JoVE Science Education. This video collection demonstrates how to execute basic techniques commonly used in cellular and molecular biology. To enhance understanding of the methods, each video is paired with additional video resources to show practical applications of the techniques and other complementary skills. video multimedia
  • JoVE Biology
    JoVE Biology welcomes all general biology research methodologies. Content in this section canvases all fields of cell, molecular, and organismal biology, ranging from new applications of standard techniques to novel approaches aimed at understanding the functions of life and living organisms. This diverse section includes, but is not limited to, techniques in physical biology, cellular biochemistry, genetics, physiology, systems biology and a combination of eukaryotic and prokaryotic model systems. video multimedia
  • JoVE Chemistry
    JoVE Chemistry surveys a broad scope of chemical disciplines. This collection includes fundamental and applied research that investigates molecular interactions, properties, and structure spanning in the following core divisions: analytical, organic, organometallic, inorganic, bioinorganic, and biochemistry. This section also includes the design and preparation of materials and small molecules for advanced or unique applications. video multimedia
  • JoVE Chemistry Science Education
    JoVE Chemistry Science Education includes access to Essentials of General Chemistry, Essentials to Organic Chemistry, and Essentials to Analytical Chemistry. video multimedia
  • JoVE Essentials of Behavioral Science
    This collection is sub-divided on the basis of different aspects of human behavior such as learning, memory, cognition, movement, addiction and behavioral disorders. The videos briefly explain the neurobiology of behavior, discuss concepts behind prominent techniques, introduce important questions being asked by scientists and provide protocols to run behavioral experiments. video multimedia
  • JoVE Essentials of Neuroscience
    These videos offer a glimpse of neuroscience at the professional level, through an exploration of five major branches of study: neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, cell and molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and developmental neuroscience. In addition to presenting the key questions asked by scientists from these subfields, the collection describes some prominent methods used by today’s most brainy researchers, while making exciting discoveries regarding nervous system function. video multimedia
  • JoVE General Laboratory Techniques
    JoVE Science Education. This video collection exhibits how to use standard pieces of laboratory equipment and how to perform basic laboratory functions. Each video is paired with additional resources to show practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills. video multimedia
  • JoVE Medicine
    Connects basic research and clinical applications. Articles may present medical procedures, case studies or clinical trial methodologies. Included studies are often modeled towards predictive, preventative, personalized, and practical approaches to treatment of disease. The goal of research methodologies in this section is to improve overall patient care and prognosis. video multimedia
  • JoVE Neuroscience
    JoVE Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary section devoted to investigations of the structure, function, physiology, and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous system. Included methodologies range from molecular and cellular level studies to full central and peripheral neural systems. Potential treatment platforms and surgical techniques for neurological diseases and disorders are also presented in this section. video multimedia

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  • Kanopy Video
    Kanopy is a distributor of educational videos for online viewing. Content is available across multiple subject areas. video multimedia

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  • Music Online: American Music
    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. Coverage: Details not available. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Classical Music in Video
    Contains opera and classical music performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries, these selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Classical Music Library
    Licensed streaming classical music from multiple labels. Includes contemporary music and women composers. Coverage: Details not available. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Classical Performance in Video
    Explore the largest, most diverse, and comprehensive catalog of online music content in the world. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Contemporary World Music
    Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent; contains genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music – Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Jazz Music Library
    The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. video multimedia
  • Music Online: 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. Coverage: Details not available. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Popular Music Library
    Contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more. video multimedia
  • Music Online: 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. video multimedia

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  • PBS Video Collection
    This collection of more than 1,200 streaming videos provides a range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS. Covers subjects from science, history, art, Shakespeare, diversity, business & economics, and more. video multimedia
  • ProQuest Research Companion
    Multimedia-based information literacy solution that enables educators and librarians to guide students through research projects efficiently. video multimedia
  • Psychological Experiments Online
    A multimedia resource that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection pairs audio and video recordings of original experiments (when existent) with primary-source documents. Includes exclusive and hard-to-find materials such as notes from experiment participants, journal articles, books, field notes, letters penned by the lead psychologist, videos of modern-day replications, and modifications to the original experiments. primary sources video multimedia

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  • SAGE Campus
    SAGE Campus supports the teaching and learning of skills and research methods through 250+ hours of structured online learning. These self-paced courses cover critical skills and research methods across all stages of academic study. Click Register to create your account through WFU. careers personal development video multimedia
  • SAGE Video
    With new and original video productions, including contributions from our book and journal editors and authors across the world, SAGE Video offers quick definitions, short tutorials, and in-depth interviews for a range of academic viewpoints. It also features extensive footage of practitioners in real-life professional settings designed to illustrate best practice and provide a unique insight for students to master the theory, skills, and techniques needed to succeed. video multimedia
  • SAGE Video Counseling & Psychotherapy
    This collection of 136 hours and 420 videos draws upon a vast network of SAGE’s authors and editors. It includes many tutorials, such as Mick Cooper on Empathy and Listening, multiple interviews with leading experts such as Jerrold Lee Shapiro on Existential Psychotherapy and John McLeod on Evidence-Based Practice, along with many more films addressing teaching, learning and practitioner issues. video multimedia
  • SAGE Video Psychology
    This collection features videos of current professional psychologists in action. Or, venture back to the field’s beginnings via footage of John B. Watson or Muzafer Sherif’s early experiments. video multimedia
  • Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
    The USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide.Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1996 and the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979. video multimedia
  • Swank Digital Campus
    Swank Digital Campus provides a customizable academic streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more. video multimedia

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  • TeachingBooks.net
    Provides access education related instruction materials (short movies, audio book readings, book discussion guides) about children's and young adult books and authors. curriculum resources k-12 video multimedia
  • Theatre and Drama Premium
    Theatre and Drama Premium provides everything you need to bring the spectacle of theatre and drama into the classroom, from interviews with giants like Arthur Miller or James Earl Jones to previously unpublished play manuscripts from the genius of Ed Bullins and Jeannie Barroga.Includes the Drama Text collection, featuring Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Latin American Drama, North American Indian Drama, and more; and the Theatre Performance and Design Collection, featuring the National Theatre Collection, Royal Shakespeare Company Collection, Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection, and more.  literary texts video multimedia
  • 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. Coverage: Details not available. video multimedia

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  • 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. news current events video multimedia

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