Temporary / Preview Access for Course Instructors
Note: Course instructors can obtain 24-hour preview access to titles on the Alexander Street platform which have not already been licensed by the ASU Library.
- To obtain this preview access, the instructor must create and login to her personal User Account.
- Non-licensed titles will display the message "This is a sample. For full access: Watch Now" (see Example).
- The resulting pop-up window displays the following message: "Please choose from the following options to gain full access to this content. Log in via your academic institution.
- Into the text-box type-in Arizona State University.
What Content Is Already Available Via the ASU Library?
To identify content already licensed by the ASU Library select the MENU option to the left of the Alexander Street icon.
- From the resulting submenu choose "MY COLLECTIONS" and then My Institution's Content (first entry within left column).
- You will now be searching against and browsing only content which is fully available to current ASU faculty, staff and students.
Alexander Street Video Collections
Alexander Street Press video collections provide subject-specific content developed by the BBC, Creative Arts Television, ArtHaus Musik, Pennebaker, Hegedus Films, Cunningham Dance Foundation, Insight Media, and many other publishers and broadcast companies. Alexander Street continues to add new content to each of the collections.
Individual titles in the collections have individual catalog records in the ASU Library online catalog. For deeper searching, all videos are indexed and searchable in their individual sites with full-text transcripts available for many of the videos. Users can search by date, performers, other names, scene, aria, etc. You can search across all of these collections using the link to Academic Video Online.
The Alexander Street interface also provides the ability to cite videos to the specific second with permanent URLs. Other features include custom clip-making tools, personal playlists, and embeddable links.
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American History in VideoAmerican History in Video provides access to streaming video documetaries and newsreel footage of key historical events in American history from sources such as PBS, A&E, California Newsreel, and The History Channel.
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Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volumes 1-5Searchable video collection related to the fields of counseling, psychology, and social work. Includes hours of training videos, therapy sessions, consultations with experts, reenactments, documentaries and more. Subject areas include addiction, coaching, family therapy, child therapy, domestic violence, family therapy, group therapy, weight control and eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, sex therapy, career counseling, child therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, among many other areas. Select videos are paired with downloadable teaching and discussion guides. Includes volume 1-5.
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Dance Online: Dance in VideoSearchable database containing streaming video files of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Our access is for Vol. I.
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Education in VideoFirst online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training pre- and in-service teachers. Video content includes demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. The collection also contains a wealth of ready-to-use teaching tools, including course, study, and discussion guides, assessment checklists, and themed playlists.
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Ethnographic Video OnlineEthnographic Video Online includes streaming video of ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork.Wherever possible, videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing materials.
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Filmakers Library OnlineFilmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.
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Music Online: Opera in VideoA streaming video database containing important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's leading performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.
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Nursing Education in VideoA video collection for the educational and training purposes of nurses, nursing assistants, and other allied health workers. Topics covered include airway management, anatomy and physiology, anxiety disorders, basic clinical skills, cardiology, communications, nutrition, and more. The videos in the collection were created under the guidance of MedCom-Trainex, which is the world's largest producer of nursing education videos.
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Theatre in VideoContains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.
