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Current Streaming Collections

Please be aware that streaming licenses may expire at any time. Please check with the Electronic Resources Librarian for expiration dates.

Global Environmental Justice Collection
A curated collection of 37 documentaries with a wide range of subject areas, from Asian, environmental, and Indigenous studies to law, geography, anthropology, global health, policy, conservation biology, and more.
National Theatre Collection
SHAKESPEARE PLAYS- Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and The Winter's Tale

GREEK PLAYS- Medea and Antigone

COMEDIES- One Man, Two Guvnors, She Stoops to Conquer and London Assurance

EUROPEAN PLAYS- Yerma, The Cherry Orchard, and The Deep Blue Sea

AMERICAN PLAYS- A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Les Blancs

NOVEL to PLAYS- Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Treasure Island, Peter Pan and Small Island

NEW PLAYS- Consent, Dara and wonder.land
Perpetual Streaming Films
Here you will find several films the library has purchased with perpetual access
Swank
Swank licenses and distributes 'major motion picture' movies and TV shows. Partnering with the world’s best studios, they help customers entertain, inspire, and inform their audiences wherever they are located.

Streaming Video Providers

This is a list of streaming platforms we purchase licenses from. The price to obtain a streaming license for a film is listed below.

Alexander Street Videos
ProQuest's Alexander Street is providing users with unlimited access to almost 45,000 video titles spanning a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) imakes it a useful resource for Educators.
-Pricing: $149/ $299/ $499 per title for 1 year/ 3 year/ perpetual licensing

***Includes Public Performance Rights (excluding Film Platform and National Theatre titles); see Electronic Resources Librarian for details
Docuseek
Provides streams of essential independent, social-issue, and environmental films.
-Pricing varies

***Includes Public Performance Rights; see Electronic Resources Librarian for details
Film Platform
Educational licenses to the world’s most compelling & influential documentary films.
-Pricing $225 per film for 1 year/ $375 per film for 3 years
Films on Demand
Films On Demand has documentaries that will both educate and entertain students and researchers on a wide range of curricular subjects, including history, biology, business and economics, engineering, computer science, technical and trade skills, art and architecture, music and dance, philosophy and religion, geography, environmental science, anthropology, language and literature, mathematics, psychology, sociology, political science, and more.
-Pricing: $149 per title for 1 year license

***Includes Public Performance Rights; see Electronic Resources Librarian for details
Good Docs
These are films that do good in the world. The collection engages and inspires students by featuring rarely heard stories about frontline communities working towards a more equitable world. Good Docs represents established documentarians and passionate new filmmakers driven by their experiences as educators, academics, journalists, artists, social workers, community members, and activists.
-Pricing varies
Kanopy
Kanopy offers thought provoking, exclusive content that promotes collection diversity. Collections include popular world cinema, documentaries, and more.
-Pricing: $150 per title for 1 year license / $350 per title for 3 years license.

***Includes Public Performance Rights; see Electronic Resources Librarian for details
Swank
Provides over 25,000 films, documentaries, and TV shows from classics of the silent film era to today’s latest releases. Find shocking exposés to observational stories with foreign film collections from all over the world.
-Pricing starts at $120 per title for a semester license/ $240 per title for a 1 year license.

You can also email Jazmine Wilson directly with any streaming video requests.

Considerations

We consider requests for films that are crucial for course curriculum. Due to budget constraints, restrictive vendor licensing terms, and high costs we recommend that you consider all of our current licensed streaming video options and open access options before placing a request for new material.

Electronic Resources/Reference and Instruction Librarian

Jazmine Wilson

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859-238-5280

Subjects: Behavioral Neuroscience , Biochemistry/Molecular Biology (BMB), Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Copyright, Environmental Studies, Mathematics, Medicine and Health, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Reference