University Libraries is adding three new streaming video collections to its holdings — Swank Digital Campus Top 1000, Kanopy, and Documentaries from Good Docs on the Sage platform — making thousands of new online titles available to the UNL community to support teaching, research, and leisure viewing.
The Swank Top 1000 collection includes films from the 1930s to the 2020s reflecting a wide range of topics and academic disciplines. The list is updated each year to reflect the most in-demand titles available via Swank and currently features Academy Award Best Picture winners like American Beauty, Casablanca, The Godfather, Moonlight, and Schindler’s List. These videos can be used for course teaching and personal viewing but are not licensed for public performance.
UNL’s Kanopy collection is a curated selection of features and documentaries from providers such as New Day, Ronin, National Film Board of Canada, ADF Video, Reel Women Media, Documentary Educational Resources, Criterion, and PBS. Intended primarily to support course teaching, the Kanopy collection combines a core list of videos available immediately for viewing with a much larger collection of titles that can be requested by teaching faculty to be made available for use with specified courses. Some Kanopy titles may also be shown publicly at events that are limited to UNL students, faculty, and staff — this is indicated by a Public Performance indicator on the title’s homepage.
Sage’s Documentaries collection will include over 200 films from the highly respected distributor Good Docs, focused on amplifying the stories of marginalized communities and showcasing solutions to complex social problems. These titles will be available to UNL on the Sage Video platform in late April.
The Swank and Kanopy collections are licensed as yearlong pilots. Access models and licensed content may change based on usage data and requests. Course Reserves requests will be filled through these providers whenever possible.
Contact Melissa Gomis, Chair of Collections Strategy and Open Scholarship, at melissa.gomis@unl.edu with questions.
More details at: https://unl.libguides.com/az/databases?t=15474