Academic Affairs Newsletter Fall 2015, Issue 4 | Page 32

AFFORDABLE LEARNING SOLUTIONS

Streaming Videos (Films)

Films on Demand grows monthly with films from distributors such as ABC News, BBC, American Museum of Natural History, National Geographic, Films for Humanities and Sciences, California Digital and many more. This collection of resources for academic use currently has 17,900 full titles which can be shown in full or in segments. Find this database in the Article Databases by Title List or Films on Demand Dashboard.

Films on Demand World Cinema is a group of 399 silent era to contemporary feature films from renowned directors worldwide. The collection shows the history of cinema while also providing a look into the cultures and issues of countries around the world. Find this database in the Article Databases by Title List or at World Cinema Video Collection.

The 37 BBC “Shakespeare Plays” are now available for free, 24/7 access by using the link for this database in the Article Databases by Title List or at Ambrose Video.

The Chancellor’s Office has provided all CSU campuses with access to NBC Learn.

The Library currently has trial access to the KANOPYSTREAMING.COM collection of over 26,000 videos. The videos cover various genres from documentaries to movies and general learning videos from producers such as Psychotherapy.net, Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, New Day Films, California Newsreel, PBS, First Run Features and more. Contact Naomi Moy on titles interested in multiple semester use. This is a demand driven database and we would only pay subscription costs for the videos used. Access the trial.

Cool4Ed http://cool4ed.org/facultyshowcase.html is a California Open Online Library for Education for our three public systems: University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges system.

OpenStax College is a collection of peer-reviewed college textbooks available online or in print for a low cost.

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