In mid-June, one of the many companies that provides psychotherapy and counseling videos to the Counseling and Therapy database (from Alexander Street Press) is pulling all their content from that database to put it on their own subscription database (these videos are all from Psychotherapy.net). Luckily for us, we have access to nearly all of those same videos via Kanopy, another streaming video database we have.
Tag: Kanopy
Videos from Kanopy Now Findable in OneSearch
As of this week, all videos that are available to us from Kanopy are findable in OneSearch. Our subscription to Kanopy uses a patron-driven acquisition model. Rather than buy access to the whole collection of streaming videos, our subscription is set up so that when any given video is streamed a certain number of times, we automatically purchase it. This model is especially useful because it allows faculty and others to preview a video before we commit to actually purchasing it. While we do not want to impede use, we want to be mindful about when we will recommend Kanopy to users, especially to faculty members. Kanopy is not best used for a one-time film viewing in class (if the faculty has alerted us, we can have the DVD for them to use instead), or for watching clips (we can work with the faculty member to create a clip collection).
Expanded Video Content from Kanopy
Since January 2014, we’ve had a small collection of videos listed on the databases page as “Media Education Foundation.” As of last week, we now have access to the entire video collection on that vendor’s platform. You’ll now find a link to Kanopy on the databases page (we’ll keep the separate link for Media Education Foundation for now, as some faculty use it regularly).
Here’s an overview of what we now get from Kanopy:
Over 1,000 documentaries and feature films in the fields of business, communications studies, social sciences, language studies, visual and performing arts, film studies, and history. Includes titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, and other independent and foreign film producers.
Correction: Kanopy Should Be Called Media Education Foundation
The announcement I posted this morning about a new database incorrectly identified it as “Kanopy.” Kanopy is just the platform on which the database is hosted; the actual database name should be Media Education Foundation. Links to the database will now be labeled as “Media Education Foundation” instead. I’m sorry for the confusion.
New Database for Streaming Video: Kanopy
We now have a subscription to a streaming video collection called Kanopy. At the moment, there are 136 videos in the collection that are mostly in the social sciences but also include some in the arts, sciences, and in business. Videos can be embedded in LibGuides, Blackboard, etc.
In addition to adding it to the A-Z list of databases, you can also find links for it on the following subject database pages:
- Communication Studies
- Current Events
- Journalism
- Public Affairs
- Sociology
If you’d like to have it added to other subject database pages, please let Mike or me know.