Research Guides: Videos & Streaming Media: Streaming Video Collections

Auraria Library's Streaming Video Collections

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary streaming video collection touches on curriculum needs of virtually every department. Contents are continually growing and include tens of thousands of videos from producers and distributors worldwide, including Filmmakers, Icarus, Bullfrog, and more.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
This multi-subject database supplies hundreds of streaming video documentaries from such distributors as Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, Terra Nova Films, Fanlight, Kartemquin Films, Scorpion TV, National Film Board of Canada, and others, on topics in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, and professional studies.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Access more than 100,000 educational films and 300,000 video clips covering a wide spectrum of subject disciplines. Most streaming videos are close-captioned and titles may be embedded or linked in syllabi, course management systems, and other materials. Note: To link to a video or video segment, click on "Share" under the video you are watching and then click on the Embed/Link tab. Copy the URL in the Record URL box. Do NOT copy the URL in the web browser, as that URL expires quickly.
Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new window
Find thousands of videos ranging from documentaries to silent and foreign feature films. Distributors include The Teaching Company, Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, Media Education Foundation, and First Run Features.
BBC Shakespeare Plays This link opens in a new window
This streaming video collection contains these Shakespeare plays, all with closed captions available: All's Well that Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Henry IV - Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, Henry VI - Parts 1, 2, & 3, Henry VII, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Pericles, Richard II, Richard III, Romeo & Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troilus & Cressida, Twelfth Night, and Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Counseling and Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
Online collection of videos (CTIV) available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Includes counseling sessions/demonstrations, consultations, interviews, lectures and presentations. Online transcripts and video clip-making tools are also provided.
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
This collection of over a thousand award winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum can be searched on its own own or as part of the Academic Video Online content (see above.)
JoVE This link opens in a new window
JoVE is both a journal, Journal of Visualized Experiments, and a database, JoVE Science Education Database, of filmed experiments, published (peer-reviewed) in video format to make visible the subtle, intricate techniques involved in research. Subjects covered include biology, neurosciences, medicine, bioengineering, engineering, genetics, cancer research, immunology and infection, chemistry, behavior, environment, developmental biology, biochemistry, psychology, and clinical skills JoVE journal articles are indexed in PubMed Central.
New Day Films This link opens in a new window
New Day Films offers hundreds of films on a wide-range of topics. New Day is
democratically run by more than 150 filmmaker members who carefully select
films for the collection. To access streaming films, click Watch Now, from the
landing page of the video
Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
Opera in Video is a near-comprehensive collection of Western operas, captured on video Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon. The database also includes interviews and documentaries on opera. Users can view operas in their entirety or scene by scene, read transcripts, and select and share clips.
Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming training videos in the field of counseling, psychotherapy, and addiction. The majority of the videos show leading practitioners conducting therapy and demonstrating clinical skills, along with pre- and post-discussions.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Swank Digital Campus provides streaming access to feature films licensed by Auraria library. These films may only be viewed through the Swank Digital Campus platform.
The Teaching Channel This link opens in a new window
Database of over 1,400 teaching videos that demonstrate different classroom techniques and plans. Downloadable resources and materials accompany many of the videos.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Online access to hundreds of plays captured in live performance, as well as theatre documentaries featuring discussions with actors, playwrights, and directors.

Streaming Video Tips

Browse within a specific collection to find interesting films you may not otherwise find. Most databases have topics or subjects you can browse.
Many databases also offer advanced search options, including transcript searching or limiting by genre.
Most of the Library's streaming video collections supply the citation you need for a bibliography.
Create a free account to take full advantage of useful extras such as the ability to create clips.
Most videos include full transcripts and/or closed-captioning.

Creating Clips

After accessing these databases from Auraria Library's website, create an account. The registration process is simple and each database requires a user to be logged in to create clips.

Alexander Street (Includes Academic Video Online (AVON), Counseling & Therapy in Video, Filmmakers Library, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video.)

Creating Clips

Click on Clips at the top of the screen.
Choose start and end times by dragging the green start box and red end box to the desired points

Films on Demand (FOD)

Creating Clips

All Films on Demand videos have pre-made segments in a list on the left side of the opening page.
At the bottom of the pre-made segment list, click on Create Custom Segment
Fill in start and end time for the clip you're creating

Using Captioning

To set captioning as the default:

Sign into your user account.
Click User Options in the upper right.
In the User Options menu, click My User Preferences.
Under Closed Captioning, select the Show by Default checkbox.

Using Interactive Transcripts

Click on the Transcript tab to the right of the video player to view the interactive transcript.
Jump to a different section of the video by clicking on a word within the transcript; the video will skip to that point.
Jump back or ahead using the status bar on top of the transcript module, or within the player itself. Or, use the Search bar to locate a specific part.

Saving the URL to a Films on Demand Video

Don't use the web page URL at the top of the page - that URL is not permanent, and may change.
Use the Title or Segment URL located beneath the opening screen of a video.

Kanopy (Note: Though Kanopy's a great collection, getting to the clip-making process is not intuitive. It's not difficult, just not obvious!)

Creating Clips

In the More menu under the video screen, choose Create Clip/Playlist
A Create Playlist box will appear. Name the Playlist and choose Create
Choose Edit Playlist
Choose Edit
You will now be able to name and describe your clip and choose a start and end time for the clip