Alexander Street Press is a publisher of online collections and videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning.
Collections include American History in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video, Dance in Video, and Music Online (classical, jazz, opera, popular music, world music). Provides access to over 480,000 music albums (nearly 6 million tracks) and more than 10,500 videos.
This collection provides over 41,000 high quality streaming video on a wide-variety of topics. Subjects covered include business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, and popular music performances. The videos include Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries plus interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
Features include: Captioning and cross-searchable interactive transcripts on all titles; iPad, PC, Mac, and Android friendly; Public performance rights; Citations in MLA, CMS, and APA formats; ability to embed persistent and authenticated video clips into course management systems such as Blackboard and Moodle; an Create and share personalized playlists using segments from multiple videos.
Swank Digital Campus provides a streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios.
Studios include Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax, and many more. We usually have between 100 and 200 films available each semester, chosen for classes at faculty request. Swank allows faculty and students to set up accounts, but those accounts are not necessary for viewing films.
Commercial and governmental news, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This collection of video online currently provides access to 5,741 titles, equaling approximately 1450 hours.
As a biographical resource, American History in Video includes hundreds of profiles of American leaders and personalities. As an encyclopedia of history, it provides footage of seminal historic events. Coverage: 1500s-present
The collection currently contains over three million images, including the following collections:
The Art History Survey Collection
The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection
The Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts
The Huntington Archive of Asian Art
The Illustrated Bartsch (Old Master European prints from the 15th to the 19th centuries)
The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (images of wall paintings and sculpture from Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang , China )
The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection
Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. ARTstor's definition of art is encompassing. It includes architecture, painting, photography, prints, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. ARTstor also provides software tools to enable active use of the images. The tools support a wide range of uses including analyzing images, saving groups of images online, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
Coverage: Prehistory to the present
Search millions of images from the Picture Collection. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google
With a U.S. focus, searches millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Type in your search terms or browse by time period, people, places, events, sports, and culture.
To limit your search to photos labeled for "non-commercial reuse," from the Google result list - select the Search Tools option, then select from the "Usage Rights" menu.
