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What are Streaming Videos and where can I find them?

Sometimes the best way to learn is through observation and replication.  The library offers technical videos, career advice from experts, and documentaries to help support your education.  We also offer feature films if you are looking for a way to wind down after a long day.

Streaming Documentaries and Films

  • Academic Video Online

    80,000+ streaming video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

  • Kanopy New

    Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines.

  • National Screening Room

    The National Screening Room showcases the riches of the Library’s vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible to the viewers worldwide.

  • ScienceCinema

    Highlights leading-edge research from the U.S. Department of Energy as well as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

  • Swank

    Gain practical understanding of educational concepts through the lens of popular films and documentaries.  Search through top feature films and documentaries that support assignments.

Technical & Educational Videos 

  • Behavioral and Mental Health Online Best Bet

    Contain clinical mental health demonstrations, video of real clinical mental health sessions, largest amount of DSM-5®/ICD-10 video content, documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, client narratives, reference works, clinical mental health textbooks and workbooks, psychological experiments and more.

  • Computer Skills Center Best Bet

    Enjoy free access to more than 90 self-paced video tutorials covering computer and internet basics, popular Microsoft software applications, popular Adobe graphics and illustration tools, and Windows Operating Systems.

  • Health and Medicine Best Bet

    Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals, this resource is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. With more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.  

  • Nursing & Allied Health Database Best Bet

    Supports students, instructors, researchers, and nurses around the world with its diverse mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.

  • Academic Video Online

    80,000+ streaming video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

  • American Archive of Public Broadcasting

    The American Archive of Public Broadcasting contains more than 50,000 hours of digitized public broadcasting programs and original materials. This archive is a source for American political, social, and cultural history and creativity.

  • C-SPAN

    Website of the cable television broadcaster; provides video of coverage of the U.S. government in action.

  • Films On Demand: Master Career & Technical Education Video Collection

    Find essential videos that can guide you along your career path, regardless of your field of study.  Over 6,800 full-length videos covering career & job search, computer science, guidance & counselling, hospitality, technical education & trade skills, and visual communication.

  • Gale In Context: College

    Easily browse interdisciplinary content covering the humanities and social sciences, literatures, science, U.S. history, and world history.  Access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.

  • Gale In Context: Elementary

    Get familiar with teaching young researchers how to find resources they are looking for. Use this dynamic resource to enhance K-5 instruction and encourage student engagement. Contains over 16,000 indexed images, 600 videos, and 1,700 charts and graphs accessed through a visual interface to encourage student learning and exploration.

  • Psychology Database

    Combines full-text content from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications, with diverse sources of content to help students bridge theory with practice.  High impact full text from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications, with diverse sources of content including dissertations and training videos to help new students bridge theory with practice.

  • Public Health Database

    The ideal starting point for public health information for researchers and professionals. Delivers core public health literature from thousands of publications, much of it in full text. With journals, dissertations, videos, news, trade publications, reports, and more, the database covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences to business to biological sciences.

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