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Tag: Videos

Selected Videos Being Removed from Counseling and Therapy

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.

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).

New Page to List Databases with Videos

There’s a new database list page that details different ways to get streaming video. For a number of reasons, we’re mostly not able to make the videos in those collections discoverable in the library catalog or in OneSearch. We don’t really expect that most users will go to this video databases page so they can track down a specific video. Instead, it’s designed more as a showcase page to let our users know we have streaming video (from usability studies I did this year, I found many students assume we don’t have any videos in any format, just books).

In the coming years, it’s likely libraries and the vendors we rely on will have solved this problem of how to get all streaming video titles from large collections indexed in discovery tools like Primo. In the meanwhile, we’ve at least got a page that shows you where to go to find most of our video content. If you have any suggestions for databases we already subscribe to that feature a notable number of streaming videos, please let me, Mike, or Amanda know.

Thanks, by the way, to Linda for suggesting this new page.

Media and Film Guide – Streaming films update for Fall 2014

The library currently has access to a promotional offering of streaming films from the Kanopy streaming service through November 22. This collection includes feature and documentary films from First Run Features, Seventh Art Releasing, Media Education Foundation, PBS and more.

Additionally our trial subscription to many of the Criterion Collection streaming films has been extended through December 17.

You can access the collections through the library’s Media and Film Guide 

 

 

Ethnographic Video Online

We have a trial from Alexander Street Press’ Ethnographic Video Online until May 8, 2012. Access is on campus only for the trial.

Ethnographic Video Online is a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior.

Thematic areas include: family and race, material culture, language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, marriage, gender, and family roles.

All videos offer accompanying written transcripts where the spoken word is highlighted as it is spoken.

Please leave your comments about this database below or email me directly.