Research Guides: Videos & Streaming Media: Streaming Video Collections

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.

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.
DOCUSEEK This link opens in a new window
Multi-subject database supplies hundreds of streaming video documentaries from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, Terra Nova Films, Fanlight, Kartemquin Films, Scorpion TV, National Film Board of Canada, and others.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Access more than 30,000 films and 250,000 video clips covering a wide range of subjects and from over 1,200 international producers. Includes Oscar, Emmy, and Peabody Award-winning documentaries. Producers include PBS, A&E, BBC, National Geographic, HBO, TED, ABC News, NBC News, CNBC, and more. Most streaming videos are close-captioned and titles may be embedded or linked in syllabi or course management systems. Click on Share under / next to a film and then click on Embed/Link to copy the URL and send to others.
Kanopy 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 many Shakespeare plays, all with closed captions available.
Counseling & Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
Streaming videos of various therapy and counseling methods and approaches as practiced by experts in the field. Includes counseling sessions/demonstrations, consultations, interviews, lectures, and presentations. Online transcripts and video clip-making tools are available. Relevant to social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
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, and includes filmed science experiments, peer-reviewed and published in video format to better visualize scientific discovery. 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
A comprehensive collection of Western operas. Performances represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses. The database also includes interviews and documentaries on opera.
Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming training videos in the field of counseling, psychology, psychotherapy, and addiction. The majority of the videos show practitioners conducting therapy sessions and demonstrating clinical skills, along with pre- and post-discussions.
Swank Motion Pictures This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming feature films including Oscar award winners.
Teaching Channel This link opens in a new window
Database of over 2,000 teaching videos that demonstrate 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.

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