Streaming Video
The Richard E. Bjork Library provides access to an array of films and documentaries. Titles in these collections are copyrighted. Unauthorized use/duplication is prohibited. All video must be used in accordance with copyright law.
The Library does not own Public Performance Rights. Some platforms do offer limited performance rights for free campus events - but each title's status must be checked.
Films may be shown in their entirety, or as clips, in the classroom. More information on Copyright and Fair use in the classroom.
Major Platforms
Documentaries, feature films, interviews, performances, news, training videos, demonstrations ... Academy®, Emmy® and Peabody® winners
Use features in the video player:
- Watch Academic Video Online: Video Player Key Features
Citations, How to make clips, etc.
Mobile Apps
AVON is browser responsive. There is no need to download apps on mobile devices.
Link to videos in AVON
- Identify a title by searching Avon.
- Click the Share icon, Use this option:
- Via permalink [for Blackboard]
- Help Video: Adding web links to Blackboard
Instruction-focused video platform. Content from producers such as PBS, BBC, NatGeo and HBO.
Link to videos in Films On Demand:
- Identify a title by searching Films On Demand.
- Open the video and Click the 'Record URL' highlight link under window.
- Use copy and paste commands on the highlighted URL to use the link [for Blackboard] and elsewhere.
- Help Video: Adding web links to Blackboard.
Mobile Apps
*Apps require creation of a personal account
Kanopy offers thought provoking, exclusive content that promotes collection diversity.
Videos in all academic subject areas.
Link to videos in Kanopy
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- Identify a title by searching Kanopy. Click "See more"
- Click the "Share" tab location next to details. Copy the link option:
- Link [for Blackboard]
- Help Video: Adding web links to Blackboard
Faculty Use - Mediated Model
To access a video on the Kanopy platform that is not live, submit the request form on the video title page. The title is reviewed by the library and can generally be provided.
Mobile Apps
Swank includes access to over 1,000 of the most popular films on the Swank platform. Selections include films from major studios, independent, foreign, and art producers.
Link to videos in Swank
- Identify a title by searching Swank.
- Click the "Share" tab location next Watch and Trailer.
- Use Copy Direct Link [for Blackboard]
- Help Video: Adding web links to Blackboard
Mobile Apps
Specialized
The International Clinical Educators' ICE Learning Center provides high-quality patient videos arranged by impairment or diagnosis. Access requires a personal account. Register on site for general access, or Request Access to ICE Faculty Zone
Incudes StrokeHelp - three video courses with assignments, practice labs.
- Teaching Independence: A Therapeutic Approach
- Functional Treatment Ideas & Strategies
- Treatment Strategies in Acute Care
Symptom Media is a mental health education and training film library that contains over 300 mental health simulations, including DSM5 and ICD field guided films, assessment tools and continuing education courses.
The Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 53,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Registration is required for new users.
Open Access
History/Social Sciences
Nature/Science
- American Museum of Natural History
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Health VideosProduced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, these animated videos show the anatomy of body parts and organ systems and how diseases and conditions affect them.
News/Politics/Journalism
Communications/Television/Film
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American MastersDiscover insightful profiles of important figures in America's artistic and cultural life.
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