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Swank: Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
NOTE: for classroom and individual use only; not compatible with Google Chrome. Offering streaming through their Swank Digital Campus service, Swank Motion Pictures is the nontheatrical distributor for the majority of the major Hollywood studios as well as many independent, foreign, art house, and documentary offerings.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of over 40,000 full video titles (not just clips) and well over 20,000 hours of content from Alexander Street Press; Content types include: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, award-winning feature films, educational films for classroom instruction, and archival materials.
Filmmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculumrace and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
Annenberg Media This link opens in a new window
Provides streaming video courses on a variety of subjects for high school and college students, as well as teachers. If the unit section has the VOD icon next to it, it can be streamed for free.
Films on Demand : Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
Access to high-quality digital programs and video clips; Available collections include the Humanities and Social Sciences Collection, Science Collection, Business and Economics Collection, and Health Collection.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
Holds more than 850,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and coverage of news-related programming including ABC's Nightline and special report coverage, including coverage of major national and world events and major military conflicts; Users obtain access to streaming video of NBC nightly news broadcasts (August 1968 to present) and CNN broadcasts (1995 to present).

Kanopy Films Help
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Library Hacks
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Films on Demand: Support
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Alexander Street Press: Help
Find out known issues on the platform, troubleshoot playback, and find search tips for ASP (Academic Video Online & Filmmakers Library Online)

Ethnographic Video Online, vol. 1, 2, & 3 This link opens in a new window
Online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world; Contains over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
Collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 4,248 titles, equaling approximately 1,031 hours.
LGBT Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
Cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community; The collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics.

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Internet Archive
A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
The Public Domain Project
Download thousands of historic media files for your creative projects.

Floor		Resources
One		Center for Academic Success: University Learning/Testing Center Electronic Classroom Broadcast Video Productions Resource for Education Technology UTS - Media Equipment Services Distance Learning Electronic Classroom Instructional Photography & Graphics
Two		Information & Research Services Curriculum & Juvenile Collection LACiC - Latin American and Caribbean Center Government Documents GIS-RS Center & Teaching Lab Maps & Imagery User Statistics
Three		Periodicals & Newspapers Laptop Lounge Honors College Student Resource Center College of Medicine Library Copiers Systems
Four		College of Medicine Special Collections & Archivese Academic Space Management School of Social Work Study Area
Five		Audiovisual Collection Diaz Ayala Collection Architecture and Fine Arts (General Collection and Periodical Section N) Music (General Collection and Periodical Section M) Music Listening Room Music CAI Center Spanish Resource Center Group Study Rooms
Six		Quiet Study Space Group Study Rooms General Collection HJ-L & P-Z Oversized Books
Seven		General Collection A-HG Quiet Study Floor Group Study Rooms
Eight		Library Administration Collection Management Digital Collections Center

Floor		Resources
One		Circulation Course Reserves Intercampus/Interlibrary Loan Information and Research Services Center for Excellence in Writing Communication Arts Studio Computer Labs/Copiers
Two		Microforms Periodicals Juvenile Collection Oversize Collection Video Collection Government Documents Reference Workroom Reference Collection Copiers
Three		General Collection, A-Z Library Administration

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