Some useful video resources are included below. HTML Academic Video Online (Alexander St Press/ProQuest) Access information: Access on and off-campus Description: Academic Video Online is a multidisciplinary collection of videos that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. With over 67,000 titles available now and 400 new titles per month, this collection is unmatched in its breadth. Academic Video Online allows students and researchers alike to analyse unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world. Userguide: https://proquest.libguides.com/academicvideoonline/home HTML Acland Anatomy Online Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: High quality videos of Human Anatomy which use fresh, unembalmed specimens to retain the colour, texture and mobility of the living human body. Search or browse by structure. Links can be made to specific points of relevance in the videos. A concise synchronised narration runs throughout and transcripts are available for download. There are self-assessment exams covering all topics. HTML BBC Literary Adaptations in Video Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: This collection of 236 titles comprises a treasure trove of BBC productions of famous literary works, many that were buried in the BBC archive for the past few decades. From Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chekhov to Arthur Miller, from Jane Austen to Mary Shelley, a great breadth of works is included. Talent like Mark Rylance, John Gielgud, Ian McKellen, Colin Firth, and more make this product a must-have for theatre, drama, performing arts, and literature courses. In addition to actual performances, the product includes titles like Face to Face where actors and directors discuss their craft. HTML BFI Player SubscriptionAccess information:Access on and off-campus. Individual registration is required - see instructions below.Description:BFI Player is a video-on-demand service from the British Film Institute, streaming acclaimed, landmark and archive films. BFI Player’s focus is on British and European independent films, as well as international releases. The availability of films is dependent on rights agreements with licensors.Instructions for registering for access to our BFI Player institutional subscription: Go to https://player.bfi.org.uk/academic/subscribe and create an account using your UoE email address and a password of your choice OR sign in if you already have one by selecting 'Already have an account? Sign in'.Select University of Edinburgh from the dropdown list and click "Link institution". Authenticate subscription using your university credentials. Note:BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK. Content can change throughout the subscription period and films could be removed. Rental section & festival events are unavailable with the Library subscription. For any licensing queries, please contact IS Helpline at https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/contact-helplineTitle list:November title listhttps://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/docs/Libraries/Main/E-Resources/Videos/BFI_Titles_Nov_2024.xlsxAny titles with less than 6 months remaining are highlighted in orange on the first tab.Note:Please note that you first need to register your BFI Player account via a web browser by visiting https://player.bfi.org.uk/help. Once your account is set up, you can log-in via pc, laptop, mobile devices (iOS: iOS 13 or higher ; Android: V11 or higher) and the following TV apps:Samsung Smart TV app (2015-2024)LG Smart TV app (2019-2024)Amazon Fire TV appApple TV appAndroid TV appChromecast with Google PlayFurther details are available in the "Supported Devices” section at: https://player.bfi.org.uk/help HTML Bloomsbury Screen Studies Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Bloomsbury Screen Studies offers a broad range of content to support moving-image studies. It comprises award-winning screenplays, presented in industry-standard studio format, from ‘Orlando’ to ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’. It also includes critical and contextual books on film from the late nineteenth century to the present, and an interactive timeline of cinema history. It is an essential resource for academics and students engaged in research and learning around film history, theory and practice. HTML Box of Broadcasts Access Information: Access on and off campus Description: BoB (Box of Broadcasts) enables all staff and students in subscribing institutions to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely (no expiry) and added to a growing media archive (currently at over 1 million programmes), with all content shared by users across all subscribing institutions. Additional information: Please note that it not possible to access content in BoB when you are outside the UK, under the terms and conditions of the ERA licence. HTML British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) Access Information: Access on and off campus. Some resources on BUFVC require sign in - click sign in, enter "University of Edinburgh" in the search box and if prompted sign in with your University Login. Description: BUFVC provides a range of services to promote the production, study and use of film and related media for education and research. Services and projects include: Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT); News on Screen - a resource for the study of news reels and cinemagazines (1910-1983) complete with Pathe film clips where they exist; the subject-based Moving Image Gateway. Coverage: International. HTML Digital Theatre Plus Access information: Access on and off campus. Enter UoE email address and select University of Edinburgh from the drop-down menu. Description: Digital Theatre+ provides access to 600+ theatre productions and 21,000 pages of supporting educational resources, with over 800 videos of quality live performances of classic, contemporary and international productions. HTML Drama Online Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Drama Online is a digital library of the world’s most studied and critically-acclaimed plays, accompanied by a wealth of innovative teaching and performance tools, critical analysis, contextual information, references and practical texts. We have subscribed to following components: Nick Hern Books Collection: Over 500 modern plays from specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books featuring pre-eminent playwrights including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, and Caryl Churchill. The RSC Live Collection: 17 films of live productions from the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2013 to the cutting-edge 2016-17 production of The Tempest starring Simon Russell-Beale Shakespeare's Globe On Screen (2008-2015): 21 films recorded live on the Globe stage from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning Falstaff in Henry IV Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2 (2016-2018): Features landmark productions from the Globe Theatre’s most recent seasons, including the first production from the indoor Jacobean theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2014 Shakespeare in the Present: A six hour acting masterclass with international coach Patsy Rodenburg, starring Joseph Fiennes Stage on Screen: Critically acclaimed stage productions of four key set drama and literature texts: The Duchess of Malfi, Doctor Faustus, The School for Scandal, and Volpone. Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains: Steven Berkoff: A 90 minute masterclass from Steven Berkoff, world-renowned writer, director, and actor. Maxine Peake as Hamlet: A landmark reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Maxine Peake in the title role. Oberon Books Collection: A unique collection of over 500 titles of play texts from ground-breaking British plays to the best of international drama and plays in translation. HTML Ethnographic Video Online, Teaching Edition Access Access on and off campus. Description A collection of videos, segments, teaching guides, and fieldwork-driven learning objects and classroom activities created in partnership with the Royal Anthropological Institute. HTML EUscreen Access information: Freely available Description: The EUscreen portal offers free online access to thousands of items of audiovisual heritage. It brings together clips that provide an insight into the social, cultural, political and economic events that have shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. As well as chronicling important historical events, the EUscreen portal allows you to explore television programmes that focus on everyday experience HTML Healthtalk.org - Learning & Teaching Access information: Freely available. Description: Approximately 25,000 video clips of people talking about their experiences of more than 90 different health issues. Interviews conduted by researchers from the University of Oxford. Copyright: Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives HTML Henry Stewart Talks - Biomedical and Life Sciences Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of over 2,800 seminar style talks by leading world experts. All of the seminars have been specially commissioned from leading scientists and are presented in a user-friendly format of animated slides with synchronized narration. HTML Henry Stewart Talks - Business and Management Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Business and Management Collection. The collection contains over 900 specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures and case studies by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia. All lectures and case studies are suitable for inclusion in courses and as additional learning material including in blended learning and flipped classroom programmes, and may be included in Moodle, Blackboard and other Online Learning Environments. HTML JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments) Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: We have had access to all of the content in JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments). JoVE is a scientific video methods journal containing over 10,000 video articles. JoVE publishes novel methods, innovative applications of existing techniques, and gold-standard protocols in both the physical and life sciences. JoVE articles are peer-reviewed and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, SciFinder, and Scopus. In addition, we have access to JoVE Science Education Library which aims to “better teach and learn key concepts and fundamental techniques at the undergraduate course level. The simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations cover a wide range of STEM subjects including Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Psychology, Clinical Medicine and Engineering.” HTML Kanopy Videos Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: Kanopy is an online streaming service for films and documentaries. Content includes popular documentaries, Oscar winners and nominees, classic films, and independent films. Edinburgh University users can have full access to several dozen films which the Library has purchased for teaching. These films will be displayed after you login in and can be accessed from any device including computer, IOS and Android devices. Individual films available to us are also findable by title and author (as director) search in DiscoverEd. You can use the "Browse" button to view the catalogue of all the films which we haven't purchased yet. Requests for films for teaching purchases must be made via the Resource Lists service. Library of Congress Screening RoomPresents the Library's extensive digital collection. HTML Macmillan Cancer Support - Stories Access information: Freely available. Description: Written and video experiences of cancer patients, survivors, family, carers and healthcare professionals. Copyright: For information purposes and for your non-commercial, personal use only. HTML medici.tv Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: One of the largest online audio-visual catalogues of classical music, opera and dance, consisting of a library of contemporary and historic performances, documentaries on composers and artists, and other interesting resources for Music scholars. More than 100 live events are broadcast each year, in partnership with the world's most prestigious venues, opera houses, festivals and competitions. Coverage: 3000 classical music videos: concerts, operas, ballets, archives, documentaries, artist profiles, master classes and educational programmes. HTML Music and Dance Online Access information: Access on and off campus Description: A large, diverse and comprehensive catalogue of online music content from Alexander Street (a ProQuest company). From classical music, to alternative rock, to zydeco, from ballet to operatic arias to alternative dance, Alexander Street's music and dance resources cover many genres and content formats. Coverage: Over 10 million audio tracks, 3,600+ videos, 1.3 million pages of scores and 124,000+ pages of reference material. Userguide: https://proquest.libguides.com/music-dance National Library of Scotland Moving ImageScotland's national collection of the moving image. HTML The National Theatre Collection Access information: Access on and off campus Description: The National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streamed video of world-class theatre productions and unique archival material, offering insight into British theatre-making and performance studies. Volume 1 contains 30 video performances and Volume 2 has 12 performances. All the performance recordings include captions. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitised archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and more are available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information. The featured 40 performances are: Volume 1 Comedies: She Stoops to Conquer (2012), One Man, Two Guvnors (2011), London Assurance (2010) 20th century classics: Yerma (2017), The Cherry Orchard (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2016), Les Blancs (2016), A Streetcar Named Desire (2014), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018), Consent (2017), Translations (2018) Shakespeare plays: Hamlet (2010), Othello (2013), King Lear (2011), Macbeth (2018), Julius Caesar (2018), Coriolanus (2014), Twelfth Night (2017), The Winter's Tale (2018), Romeo and Juliet (2017) Literary adaptations: Frankenstein (2 performances, 2011), Jane Eyre (2015), Treasure Island (2015), Peter Pan (2017), Wonder.land (2015), Small Island (2019) Greek classics: Antigone (2012), Medea (2014) World historical drama: Dara (2015) Volume 2 Turn of the century plays for contemporary audiences: Heda Gabler (2017), Julie (2018), The Seagull (2016), Three Sisters (2019) 20th century classics: A view from the Bridge (2015), All My Sons(2019) Contemporary plays: Barber Shop Chronicles (2017), This House(2013) Shakespeare: Macbeth (2019) Musical theatre: I want My Hat Back (2015) HTML Netflix Access information: Freely available Description: Some Original educational documentaries are available for one-time educational screenings. Please click the link above to view the list and licensing conditions. HTML Open Media Bank Access information: Freely available Description: A collection of high quality media resources originally created for The University of Edinburgh's MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and free short online courses. These media resources have been made available under Creative Commons licence for sharing, reuse and remixing. HTML Open Media Stock Footage Access information: Freely available Description: A collection of free, openly licensed media snippets from the Online Course Production Team at the University of Edinburgh, for downloading, sharing, remixing and reuse. HTML OsmosisTrial subscription ends: 31/12/24 Click here to provide trial feedbackAccess information:Access on and off-campus.Description:A health education platform of 1,800 animated videos and 22,000 integrated practice questions, covering subjects including basic science, physiology, medicine and more. Access noteThe University of Edinburgh Student link: https://www.osmosis.org/cohort-invite?id=3139&k=ha31iTQeSFCzjBV7tWQWgdZwS7yMZz8KThe University of Edinburgh Faculty link: https://www.osmosis.org/cohort-invite?id=3140&k=0UU4ZaavSO2nzPvDn82Bi0TfTlCyciMI HTML Prelinger Archives Access information: Freely available Description: Almost 2,000 key titles from the film collection acquired by the US Library of Congress from the collection's founder, Rick Prelinger. The ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films from between 1927-1987 are public domain and made available under creative commons licence for free downloading and reuse. All subjects. HTML Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) Web Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Full-text psychoanalysis resource of: 78 journals; 100 classic psychoanalytic books; editorial notes of the 24 volumes of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud; 19 volume German Freud Standard Edition Gesammelte Werke and over 40 videos. Coverage: 1871 onwards. Access to all content on their website. HTML Pragda Stream Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: PRAGDA STREAM is the film streaming platform from PRAGDA, a leading educational film distributor for the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema. PRAGDA STREAM provides access to hundreds of films, in Spanish, Portuguese, Indigenous languages, and more, representing 30+ countries, and covering over 50 important subjects. Films are provided with English subtitles and/or captions. HTML psychotherapy.net Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Streamed videos in the field of psychotherapy. View actual sessions, and hear leading experts discuss their thoughts behind their interventions. The videos also capture the critical non-verbal aspects of therapy, including body language, facial expression, tone of voice, and the rhythm of the therapist-client interaction. Includes onscreen transcripts and instructors manual (complete transcript, discussion questions, role-play exercises and other teaching tools) to download. HTML PsycTHERAPY Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: Nearly 500 candid psychotherapy videos featuring known therapists. The more than 100 approaches include integrated behavioural health care, cognitive behaviour therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Common obstacles faced during unscripted therapy sessions are illustrated, synchronized transcripts allow searches for precise moments in therapy and playlist creation and video clip sharing is available. HTML SAGE Research Methods Video Access Information: Access on and off campus Description: SAGE Research Methods Video has over 900 videos, including hours of tutorials, interviews, video case studies and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process. Find videos made with expert researchers from leading research institutions, your favorite SAGE authors, great teachers and more. Topics: Key concepts in research, Philosophy of research, Research ethics, Planning research, Research design, Data collection, Data quality and data management, Qualitative data analysis, Quantitative data analysis, Writing and disseminating research. Userguide: http://sagepub.libguides.com/research-methods/researchmethods HTML SCRAN Access information: Access on and off-campus. Choose Shibboleth Log In or UK Federation. Description: 1.5 million text records of historic monuments and of artefacts held in museums, galleries and archives, plus 500,000 related multimedia resources; video or sound clips, animations, graphics, plans, virtual reality objects and in particular, colour photographic images. Access to the text records and thumbnail images is freely available. Access to full resources is available under licence only, the terms of which restrict use of the material for no profit, no proliferation use in education. HTML The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 – 1974 Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: This digital archive brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 125,000 pages of text and 50 hours of video at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics. HTML Theatre in Video 1 Theatre in Video 2 Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. This video resource is searchable by title, actor, playwright, and subject. It is also browsable by actor, director, playwright, genre, and dates. It is possible to bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include those online links in learning and teaching material and in Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). HTML TV Rain Video Archive Access information: Access on and off campus. For off campus, please use the VPN - Access to the University network via the VPN. Our subscription agent advises that new programming has been suspended as of March 3, 2022, but access remains available to the archived programming.07/03/2022 Description: TV Rain is Russia’s only independent television channel. The TV Rain Video Archive holds thousands of TV programmes, reports and interviews about today’s Russia. This article was published on 2024-08-21
HTML Academic Video Online (Alexander St Press/ProQuest) Access information: Access on and off-campus Description: Academic Video Online is a multidisciplinary collection of videos that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. With over 67,000 titles available now and 400 new titles per month, this collection is unmatched in its breadth. Academic Video Online allows students and researchers alike to analyse unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world. Userguide: https://proquest.libguides.com/academicvideoonline/home
HTML Acland Anatomy Online Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: High quality videos of Human Anatomy which use fresh, unembalmed specimens to retain the colour, texture and mobility of the living human body. Search or browse by structure. Links can be made to specific points of relevance in the videos. A concise synchronised narration runs throughout and transcripts are available for download. There are self-assessment exams covering all topics.
HTML BBC Literary Adaptations in Video Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: This collection of 236 titles comprises a treasure trove of BBC productions of famous literary works, many that were buried in the BBC archive for the past few decades. From Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chekhov to Arthur Miller, from Jane Austen to Mary Shelley, a great breadth of works is included. Talent like Mark Rylance, John Gielgud, Ian McKellen, Colin Firth, and more make this product a must-have for theatre, drama, performing arts, and literature courses. In addition to actual performances, the product includes titles like Face to Face where actors and directors discuss their craft.
HTML BFI Player SubscriptionAccess information:Access on and off-campus. Individual registration is required - see instructions below.Description:BFI Player is a video-on-demand service from the British Film Institute, streaming acclaimed, landmark and archive films. BFI Player’s focus is on British and European independent films, as well as international releases. The availability of films is dependent on rights agreements with licensors.Instructions for registering for access to our BFI Player institutional subscription: Go to https://player.bfi.org.uk/academic/subscribe and create an account using your UoE email address and a password of your choice OR sign in if you already have one by selecting 'Already have an account? Sign in'.Select University of Edinburgh from the dropdown list and click "Link institution". Authenticate subscription using your university credentials. Note:BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK. Content can change throughout the subscription period and films could be removed. Rental section & festival events are unavailable with the Library subscription. For any licensing queries, please contact IS Helpline at https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/contact-helplineTitle list:November title listhttps://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/docs/Libraries/Main/E-Resources/Videos/BFI_Titles_Nov_2024.xlsxAny titles with less than 6 months remaining are highlighted in orange on the first tab.Note:Please note that you first need to register your BFI Player account via a web browser by visiting https://player.bfi.org.uk/help. Once your account is set up, you can log-in via pc, laptop, mobile devices (iOS: iOS 13 or higher ; Android: V11 or higher) and the following TV apps:Samsung Smart TV app (2015-2024)LG Smart TV app (2019-2024)Amazon Fire TV appApple TV appAndroid TV appChromecast with Google PlayFurther details are available in the "Supported Devices” section at: https://player.bfi.org.uk/help
HTML Bloomsbury Screen Studies Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Bloomsbury Screen Studies offers a broad range of content to support moving-image studies. It comprises award-winning screenplays, presented in industry-standard studio format, from ‘Orlando’ to ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’. It also includes critical and contextual books on film from the late nineteenth century to the present, and an interactive timeline of cinema history. It is an essential resource for academics and students engaged in research and learning around film history, theory and practice.
HTML Box of Broadcasts Access Information: Access on and off campus Description: BoB (Box of Broadcasts) enables all staff and students in subscribing institutions to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely (no expiry) and added to a growing media archive (currently at over 1 million programmes), with all content shared by users across all subscribing institutions. Additional information: Please note that it not possible to access content in BoB when you are outside the UK, under the terms and conditions of the ERA licence.
HTML British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) Access Information: Access on and off campus. Some resources on BUFVC require sign in - click sign in, enter "University of Edinburgh" in the search box and if prompted sign in with your University Login. Description: BUFVC provides a range of services to promote the production, study and use of film and related media for education and research. Services and projects include: Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT); News on Screen - a resource for the study of news reels and cinemagazines (1910-1983) complete with Pathe film clips where they exist; the subject-based Moving Image Gateway. Coverage: International.
HTML Digital Theatre Plus Access information: Access on and off campus. Enter UoE email address and select University of Edinburgh from the drop-down menu. Description: Digital Theatre+ provides access to 600+ theatre productions and 21,000 pages of supporting educational resources, with over 800 videos of quality live performances of classic, contemporary and international productions.
HTML Drama Online Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Drama Online is a digital library of the world’s most studied and critically-acclaimed plays, accompanied by a wealth of innovative teaching and performance tools, critical analysis, contextual information, references and practical texts. We have subscribed to following components: Nick Hern Books Collection: Over 500 modern plays from specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books featuring pre-eminent playwrights including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, and Caryl Churchill. The RSC Live Collection: 17 films of live productions from the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2013 to the cutting-edge 2016-17 production of The Tempest starring Simon Russell-Beale Shakespeare's Globe On Screen (2008-2015): 21 films recorded live on the Globe stage from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning Falstaff in Henry IV Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2 (2016-2018): Features landmark productions from the Globe Theatre’s most recent seasons, including the first production from the indoor Jacobean theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2014 Shakespeare in the Present: A six hour acting masterclass with international coach Patsy Rodenburg, starring Joseph Fiennes Stage on Screen: Critically acclaimed stage productions of four key set drama and literature texts: The Duchess of Malfi, Doctor Faustus, The School for Scandal, and Volpone. Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains: Steven Berkoff: A 90 minute masterclass from Steven Berkoff, world-renowned writer, director, and actor. Maxine Peake as Hamlet: A landmark reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Maxine Peake in the title role. Oberon Books Collection: A unique collection of over 500 titles of play texts from ground-breaking British plays to the best of international drama and plays in translation.
HTML Ethnographic Video Online, Teaching Edition Access Access on and off campus. Description A collection of videos, segments, teaching guides, and fieldwork-driven learning objects and classroom activities created in partnership with the Royal Anthropological Institute.
HTML EUscreen Access information: Freely available Description: The EUscreen portal offers free online access to thousands of items of audiovisual heritage. It brings together clips that provide an insight into the social, cultural, political and economic events that have shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. As well as chronicling important historical events, the EUscreen portal allows you to explore television programmes that focus on everyday experience
HTML Healthtalk.org - Learning & Teaching Access information: Freely available. Description: Approximately 25,000 video clips of people talking about their experiences of more than 90 different health issues. Interviews conduted by researchers from the University of Oxford. Copyright: Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
HTML Henry Stewart Talks - Biomedical and Life Sciences Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of over 2,800 seminar style talks by leading world experts. All of the seminars have been specially commissioned from leading scientists and are presented in a user-friendly format of animated slides with synchronized narration.
HTML Henry Stewart Talks - Business and Management Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Business and Management Collection. The collection contains over 900 specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures and case studies by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia. All lectures and case studies are suitable for inclusion in courses and as additional learning material including in blended learning and flipped classroom programmes, and may be included in Moodle, Blackboard and other Online Learning Environments.
HTML JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments) Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: We have had access to all of the content in JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments). JoVE is a scientific video methods journal containing over 10,000 video articles. JoVE publishes novel methods, innovative applications of existing techniques, and gold-standard protocols in both the physical and life sciences. JoVE articles are peer-reviewed and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, SciFinder, and Scopus. In addition, we have access to JoVE Science Education Library which aims to “better teach and learn key concepts and fundamental techniques at the undergraduate course level. The simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations cover a wide range of STEM subjects including Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Psychology, Clinical Medicine and Engineering.”
HTML Kanopy Videos Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: Kanopy is an online streaming service for films and documentaries. Content includes popular documentaries, Oscar winners and nominees, classic films, and independent films. Edinburgh University users can have full access to several dozen films which the Library has purchased for teaching. These films will be displayed after you login in and can be accessed from any device including computer, IOS and Android devices. Individual films available to us are also findable by title and author (as director) search in DiscoverEd. You can use the "Browse" button to view the catalogue of all the films which we haven't purchased yet. Requests for films for teaching purchases must be made via the Resource Lists service.
HTML Macmillan Cancer Support - Stories Access information: Freely available. Description: Written and video experiences of cancer patients, survivors, family, carers and healthcare professionals. Copyright: For information purposes and for your non-commercial, personal use only.
HTML medici.tv Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: One of the largest online audio-visual catalogues of classical music, opera and dance, consisting of a library of contemporary and historic performances, documentaries on composers and artists, and other interesting resources for Music scholars. More than 100 live events are broadcast each year, in partnership with the world's most prestigious venues, opera houses, festivals and competitions. Coverage: 3000 classical music videos: concerts, operas, ballets, archives, documentaries, artist profiles, master classes and educational programmes.
HTML Music and Dance Online Access information: Access on and off campus Description: A large, diverse and comprehensive catalogue of online music content from Alexander Street (a ProQuest company). From classical music, to alternative rock, to zydeco, from ballet to operatic arias to alternative dance, Alexander Street's music and dance resources cover many genres and content formats. Coverage: Over 10 million audio tracks, 3,600+ videos, 1.3 million pages of scores and 124,000+ pages of reference material. Userguide: https://proquest.libguides.com/music-dance
HTML The National Theatre Collection Access information: Access on and off campus Description: The National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streamed video of world-class theatre productions and unique archival material, offering insight into British theatre-making and performance studies. Volume 1 contains 30 video performances and Volume 2 has 12 performances. All the performance recordings include captions. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitised archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and more are available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information. The featured 40 performances are: Volume 1 Comedies: She Stoops to Conquer (2012), One Man, Two Guvnors (2011), London Assurance (2010) 20th century classics: Yerma (2017), The Cherry Orchard (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2016), Les Blancs (2016), A Streetcar Named Desire (2014), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018), Consent (2017), Translations (2018) Shakespeare plays: Hamlet (2010), Othello (2013), King Lear (2011), Macbeth (2018), Julius Caesar (2018), Coriolanus (2014), Twelfth Night (2017), The Winter's Tale (2018), Romeo and Juliet (2017) Literary adaptations: Frankenstein (2 performances, 2011), Jane Eyre (2015), Treasure Island (2015), Peter Pan (2017), Wonder.land (2015), Small Island (2019) Greek classics: Antigone (2012), Medea (2014) World historical drama: Dara (2015) Volume 2 Turn of the century plays for contemporary audiences: Heda Gabler (2017), Julie (2018), The Seagull (2016), Three Sisters (2019) 20th century classics: A view from the Bridge (2015), All My Sons(2019) Contemporary plays: Barber Shop Chronicles (2017), This House(2013) Shakespeare: Macbeth (2019) Musical theatre: I want My Hat Back (2015)
HTML Netflix Access information: Freely available Description: Some Original educational documentaries are available for one-time educational screenings. Please click the link above to view the list and licensing conditions.
HTML Open Media Bank Access information: Freely available Description: A collection of high quality media resources originally created for The University of Edinburgh's MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and free short online courses. These media resources have been made available under Creative Commons licence for sharing, reuse and remixing.
HTML Open Media Stock Footage Access information: Freely available Description: A collection of free, openly licensed media snippets from the Online Course Production Team at the University of Edinburgh, for downloading, sharing, remixing and reuse.
HTML OsmosisTrial subscription ends: 31/12/24 Click here to provide trial feedbackAccess information:Access on and off-campus.Description:A health education platform of 1,800 animated videos and 22,000 integrated practice questions, covering subjects including basic science, physiology, medicine and more. Access noteThe University of Edinburgh Student link: https://www.osmosis.org/cohort-invite?id=3139&k=ha31iTQeSFCzjBV7tWQWgdZwS7yMZz8KThe University of Edinburgh Faculty link: https://www.osmosis.org/cohort-invite?id=3140&k=0UU4ZaavSO2nzPvDn82Bi0TfTlCyciMI
HTML Prelinger Archives Access information: Freely available Description: Almost 2,000 key titles from the film collection acquired by the US Library of Congress from the collection's founder, Rick Prelinger. The ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films from between 1927-1987 are public domain and made available under creative commons licence for free downloading and reuse. All subjects.
HTML Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) Web Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Full-text psychoanalysis resource of: 78 journals; 100 classic psychoanalytic books; editorial notes of the 24 volumes of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud; 19 volume German Freud Standard Edition Gesammelte Werke and over 40 videos. Coverage: 1871 onwards. Access to all content on their website.
HTML Pragda Stream Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: PRAGDA STREAM is the film streaming platform from PRAGDA, a leading educational film distributor for the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema. PRAGDA STREAM provides access to hundreds of films, in Spanish, Portuguese, Indigenous languages, and more, representing 30+ countries, and covering over 50 important subjects. Films are provided with English subtitles and/or captions.
HTML psychotherapy.net Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Streamed videos in the field of psychotherapy. View actual sessions, and hear leading experts discuss their thoughts behind their interventions. The videos also capture the critical non-verbal aspects of therapy, including body language, facial expression, tone of voice, and the rhythm of the therapist-client interaction. Includes onscreen transcripts and instructors manual (complete transcript, discussion questions, role-play exercises and other teaching tools) to download.
HTML PsycTHERAPY Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: Nearly 500 candid psychotherapy videos featuring known therapists. The more than 100 approaches include integrated behavioural health care, cognitive behaviour therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Common obstacles faced during unscripted therapy sessions are illustrated, synchronized transcripts allow searches for precise moments in therapy and playlist creation and video clip sharing is available.
HTML SAGE Research Methods Video Access Information: Access on and off campus Description: SAGE Research Methods Video has over 900 videos, including hours of tutorials, interviews, video case studies and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process. Find videos made with expert researchers from leading research institutions, your favorite SAGE authors, great teachers and more. Topics: Key concepts in research, Philosophy of research, Research ethics, Planning research, Research design, Data collection, Data quality and data management, Qualitative data analysis, Quantitative data analysis, Writing and disseminating research. Userguide: http://sagepub.libguides.com/research-methods/researchmethods
HTML SCRAN Access information: Access on and off-campus. Choose Shibboleth Log In or UK Federation. Description: 1.5 million text records of historic monuments and of artefacts held in museums, galleries and archives, plus 500,000 related multimedia resources; video or sound clips, animations, graphics, plans, virtual reality objects and in particular, colour photographic images. Access to the text records and thumbnail images is freely available. Access to full resources is available under licence only, the terms of which restrict use of the material for no profit, no proliferation use in education.
HTML The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 – 1974 Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: This digital archive brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 125,000 pages of text and 50 hours of video at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics.
HTML Theatre in Video 1 Theatre in Video 2 Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. This video resource is searchable by title, actor, playwright, and subject. It is also browsable by actor, director, playwright, genre, and dates. It is possible to bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include those online links in learning and teaching material and in Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
HTML TV Rain Video Archive Access information: Access on and off campus. For off campus, please use the VPN - Access to the University network via the VPN. Our subscription agent advises that new programming has been suspended as of March 3, 2022, but access remains available to the archived programming.07/03/2022 Description: TV Rain is Russia’s only independent television channel. The TV Rain Video Archive holds thousands of TV programmes, reports and interviews about today’s Russia.
