Video collections
** Guide to the Library's Video & Film Collections |
A quick guide to finding and using videos in the Library's collection |
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Academic Video Online (AVON, Alexander Street Press) |
66,000 hours of video content from many disciplines on the Alexander Street platform. The database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive titles. There are thousands of award-winning films, Academy,® Emmy,® and Peabody® winners along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. Access level: John Jay |
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Alexander Street Press collections |
Search all video and other content available on the Alexander Street Press platform. Access level: John Jay |
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American History in Video |
More than 5,000 hours of videos from commercial and governmental sources, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Note: The content of this collection is now available through Academic Video Online (AVON/Alexander Street Press). Access level: John Jay |
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American Memory Collections (LOC) |
Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Counseling and Therapy in Video Volume 1 |
375 hours of videos of dramatized consultations, counseling sessions, and scenes, as well as documentaries, interviews and lectures. Note: Licensed in perpetuity. Access level: John Jay |
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CREDO Instruct: Online information literacy tutorials |
Credo Instruct is a set of over 60 online videos, tutorials, and quizzes covering information literacy. Due to budgetary constraints access to this database has been cancelled effective January 1, 2021. Access level: John Jay |
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Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video |
Over 400 documentaries, training videos, and interviews illustrating the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals in the criminal justice system. Note: The content of this collection is now available through Academic Video Online (AVON/Alexander Street Press). Access level: John Jay |
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Criminology & Criminal Justice Videos (Sage) |
Over 150 hours of videos including documentaries, interviews, and tutorials featuring criminologists talking about their work, case studies that show how that research affects policy and practices; films that take you inside forensics labs, correctional facilities, court rooms and the criminal investigation process. Access level: John Jay |
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Docuseek2 Complete collection |
Over 800 documentaries and social issues films from Icarus, BullFrog and other distributors. Issues covered include history, politics, anthropology, human rights, and justice and environment broadly interpreted. Access level: John Jay |
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Film Platform |
Contemporary, award winning documentaries of social, political and cultural importance, chosen for an academic audience. Subject matter includes human rights, crime, genocide, environment, psychology, politics, sociology, disability studies, African-American studies, Asian studies, Jewish studies, gender studies.
Access level: John Jay |
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Films on Demand (Infobase Learning) |
A comprehensive streaming video collection of 1,000s of full length educational videos and clips covering a broad range of topics. You can search by title, by keywords in segments, browsing titles alphabetically, and browsing or searching within the subject area. Most of the titles in the collection have closed-captioning and many have interactive transcripts. Access level: John Jay |
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IMDb |
Collection of movie information. IMDb tries to catalog every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where one can find reviews and fan sites on the web. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Kanopy |
We provide access to Kanopy titles if needed by faculty for use in class. Faculty may request the library purchase a 12 month long license to view a specific title by sending an email to the media librarian Ellen Sexton esexton at jjay.cuny.edu
Access level: John Jay |
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Psychological Experiments Online |
Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia collection that pairs audio and video recordings of experiments in psychology with thousands of pages of primary-source documents. It includes notes from experiment participants, journal articles, books, field notes, and final reports in topics from obedience to authority and conformity to operant. The collection contains over 70 streaming videos totaling more than 45 hours of viewing time. Videos include lectures, presentations, documentaries, experiment footage and interviews. Access level: John Jay |
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PsycTHERAPY (APA) - Trial |
PsycTherapy(APA) is a streaming video database of therapy demonstrations covering more that 100 treatment approaches such as integrated behavioral healthcare, cognitive behavior therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. Provides clinicians, counselors, and trainees the opportunity to observe candid psychotherapy videos featuring known therapists. This database will be available as a trial for 60 days after activation. Activated February 2021, trial & access ends early April. Access level: John Jay |