Videos Online
Key Resources
- Films on Demand
- FoD provides instant access to over 5,500 streaming educational videos covering a wide range of subject areas. You can watch these videos on any computer with high-speed Internet access. The library has the complete FoD collection, including Business & Economics, Health, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Sciences. Create a personal FoD user ID to save playlists with your favorite videos and video segments.
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- Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
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- VAST: Academic Video Online
- VAST: Academic Video Online is Alexander Street Press’ flagship video database containing thousands of video titles in a wide range of disciplines, including biology, business, education, healthcare, the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. The VAST video collection can be browsed or searched by discipline.
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- Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- VTC | Request an account
- First-time users must request a VTC account.
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- Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- High speed internet connection required for video content.
- Maximum number of simultaneous users: 15
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- American History in Video
- American History in Video provides a rich collection of video for the study of American history. 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 resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
- American Rhetoric
- Access over 5000 full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.
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- Access restrictions: none
- Art and Architecture Video
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
Art and Architecture Video includes biographies, profiles of contemporary artists and architects, interviews, surveys of art history, aesthetics, theory, and criticism. Includes coverage of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary Art. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- Business and Economics Video Online
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
Business and Economics Video Online includes case studies, documentaries, interviews, biographies, lectures, and instructional videos. Subjects covered include marketing, sales, finance, macro and microeconomics, personnel management, logistics and operations, strategy, negotiations, theory, cross-cultural issues, social media marketing, ethics, project management, leadership, and entrepreneurship. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- Classical Music in Video
- Classical Music in Video contains classical music performances and master classes captured on video. The collection contains performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with master classes and interviews with master teachers from around the world. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- Counseling and Therapy in Video
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
This online collection is ideal for the subject areas of social work, psychology, education, and other helping professions. It includes hundreds of hours of streaming video content, led by leading psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and academics in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. The database includes therapy sessions, training videos, demonstrations, case consultations, lectures, discussions, and workshops plus dozens of discussion guides. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
- Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video is a compilation of documentaries, training videos, and interviews depicting the theoretical principles and practical application of criminal justice and emergency response. Among the subject areas covered are criminal law and procedure, juvenile justice, substance abuse/re-entry, forensics, law enforcement, criminology, courts and adjudication, victimology, corrections, and violent crime. The database includes international coverage, allowing for a comparative view of criminal justice systems. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- Dance in Video
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
This resource provides streaming videos of over 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the twentieth century. Providing the visual element necessary for appreciation and analysis, students and researchers can at last discover and revisit great performances and learn from the dancers, choreographers, and directors who have perfected the craft. The collection covers ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
- Education in Video
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
Education in Video is designed for training teachers on a wide range of topics (behavior, classroom management, curriculum, leadership, learning styles, student assessment) in language arts, math, social sciences, and science. Intended for teachers at all grade levels, preschool to postsecondary, the majority of the videos are aimed at primary and secondary school teachers. Includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching
- MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
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- Access restrictions: None
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- Music Online
- Alexander Street Press' Music Online offers thousands of streaming audio recordings, scores, music reference works, and videos of musicians and performers. The database can be searched and browsed by subject, historical event, genre, people, cultural group, place, time period, and ensemble.
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- Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.
- Opera in Video
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
This resource offers more than 500 hours of streaming video. Classic performances from the top opera companies and documentaries on specific operas, composers, and companies cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the twentieth century. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
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- Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Media
- A multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October, 1955. The Project also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality tour of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some justices.
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- Access restrictions: none
- Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
The Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video collection includes documentaries, debates, personal interviews, biographies, and other primary source footage, mostly in the field of Religious Studies. Spanning from the Ancient Greeks to the Frankfurt School, from Hinduism to Christianity, from Classical Chinese Philosophy to American Pragmatism, the collection covers a broad range of perspectives essential to the study of philosophy, religion, current affairs, anthropology, international relations, history, and more. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- Psychology Video Online
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
Psychology Video Online contains documentaries, interviews, case studies, and psychological experiments. Topics covered include addiction, group psychology, feminist psychology, family psychology, children and adolescent psychology, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and many others. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- Science Video Online
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
Science Video Online contains documentaries covering environmental studies, natural history, and the physical and biological sciences, including chemistry, physics, biology, geology, oceanography, ecology, astronomy, and geography. The collection covers the histories of both science and technology through topics as diverse as the space race and genetic engineering; examinations of how the various sciences work in practice; how ethical and political decisions are affected through their application; and how issues in science relate to larger intellectual and social trends. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- SCOLA
- Use SCOLA to view television programs from around the world, all presented in their original native language. For instructors, SCOLA also offers multimedia Insta-Classes: ready-made for classroom lessons with a video clip, transcript, English translation, quiz, and vocabulary list.
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- Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- High speed internet connection required for video content.
- Teacher Tube
- TeacherTube is a video sharing website similar to YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training. A number of students have also uploaded videos that they have made as part of college courses. The website contains over 26,000 videos. The goal of TeacherTube is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos.
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- Access restrictions:None
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- VideoLectures.NET
- VideoLectures.NET is a free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by scholars and scientists at conferences, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas, and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic content to the scientific community, students, and the general public.
- Women's and Gender Studies Video Online
- Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
Women's and Gender Studies Video Online includes films from countries around the world covering the study of gender, feminism, women's history, media studies, and politics. The collection addresses issues of social justice, gender/sexual identity, gay and lesbian studies, and provides insight into the contributions of women to history, culture, and society. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
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- Access restrictions:Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
- YouTube EDU
- Videos from over one hundred college and university partners.
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- Access restrictions:None
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- Yovisto
- Yovisto is a worldwide video search engine for educational video content, including content from many countries and languages. Yovisto allows searching within videos. There are many other features like: tagging, adding comments, discussing, interaction with other users, uploading videos and organising your videos, etc. Each individual will need to set up a free account with yovisto.
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- Access restrictions:None
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