Binge watch “Finding Your Roots,” see Harvard Medical School scientists isolate human neutrophils, watch an educational film about autism, or listen to the catalog of music by Edith Piaf, Miles Davis, or Pete Seegar. Whether you are staying on campus for spring break or heading home, you can explore the vast collection of streaming video and audio files that the Libraries have to offer. Delve into interesting topics from history, anthropology, medicine, education, the performing arts and many more. Below is a list of some of our most popular streaming services available to Huskers!
Alexander Street Press video collections (selection)
• Academic Video Online – More than 78,000 videos covering the widest range of academic fields.
• American History in Video – Watch archival footage of historic events or important figures of United States history. Contains the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel. You can even make a clip for use in your project or share on social media.
• Docuseek2 – Offers a rich selection of issues-based documentary films from leading film producers and distributors, including Icarus Films, BBC, the National Film Board of Canada, CBC, Television Trust for the Environment, MediaStorm, Terra Nova Films, and other independent filmmakers from around the world.
• Education in Video – offers more than 4600 training videos, documentaries, and lectures that cover behavior, curriculum, diversity, physical and outdoor education, teaching methods, and more.
• Music Online – vast collections of streaming audio in the genres of American Music, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Opera in Video, Popular Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) combines peer-reviewed journals with high-quality video demonstrations of experiments with a detailed text, allowing researchers around the globe to learn from each other easily and efficiently. Includes more than 10,000 videos in Bioengineering, Biology, Engineering, Immunology and Infection, Medicine, and Neuroscience.
Met Opera On Demand – Hundreds of full-length Metropolitan Opera performances, including HD videos from the Met’s Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, and radio broadcasts dating back to 1935.