Library Guides: Streaming Resources at Tulane: Streaming Video & Audio Platforms

Streaming Video

Kanopy
Focuses on gender, race, media, culture, and identity. Select titles from the Criterion Collection.
Swank Digital Campus
Delivers movies with unlimited access to stream full-length feature films including some top new releases, classics, documentaries and foreign films both on and off campus.
Digitalia Film Library
Digitalia Film Library is a Multi-language film library of streaming videos. The Library subscribes to the Latin American Collection only.
Alexander Street Press Video
Alexander Street Press Video contains access to films Tulane Libraries has licensed access to either through collection packages (such as Dance on Video, Theatre on Video, etc.) or through as individual titles not contained in those collections. Films not yet licensed by the library are also findable but viewing is limited to short sample clips.

Should faculty discover a film not licensed but relevant to teaching or research, please contact mediaservices@tulane.edu
Lumiere (Berkeley Library of Foreign Language Film Clips)
Note: access restricted to faculty for instructional purposes. The Library of Foreign Language Film Clips (LFLFC) contains more than 18,000 clips from over 600 films in 31 languages. After acquiring a unique username and password from the Language Learning Center (402 Newcomb Hall), faculty may search the database for clips that provide culturally and contextually informed demonstrations of foreign language terms and phrases. Most clips include slowed audio tracks, descriptions of action, information about the film, and more. Faculty may request one or more clips that may then be made available in a course page via Canvas.

American History in Video
Commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Kanopy
Focuses on gender, race, media, culture, and identity. Select titles from the Criterion Collection.
Docuseek2
Tulane Libraries currently licenses select titles available in Docuseek2. In order to see only the films currently available, go to "My Movies" in the upper right corner to see films licensed by Tulane Libraries.
AP Archive
The film and video archive of The Associated Press.
History Makers
Videos and full transcripts for interviews with 100 contemporary African Americans.
Open Vault (WGBH)
Video and audio recordings of shows covering historically significant events broadcast by the public television station WGBH.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Access thousands of audio and video recordings preserved and digitized by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in collaboration with WGBH and the Library of Congress. Over 68,000 media items representing 40,000 hours of radio and television are available to researchers.
Alexander Street Press Video
Alexander Street Press Video contains access to films Tulane Libraries has licensed access to either through collection packages (such as Dance on Video, Theatre on Video, etc.) or through as individual titles not contained in those collections. Films not yet licensed by the library are also findable but viewing is limited to short sample clips.

Should faculty discover a film not licensed but relevant to teaching or research, please contact mediaservices@tulane.edu

Kanopy
Focuses on gender, race, media, culture, and identity. Select titles from the Criterion Collection.
History Makers
Videos and full transcripts for interviews with 100 contemporary African Americans.
Open Vault (WGBH)
Video and audio recordings of shows covering historically significant events broadcast by the public television station WGBH.
Ethnographic Video Online
Includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Access thousands of audio and video recordings preserved and digitized by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in collaboration with WGBH and the Library of Congress. Over 68,000 media items representing 40,000 hours of radio and television are available to researchers.
Docuseek2
Tulane Libraries currently licenses select titles available in Docuseek2. In order to see only the films currently available, go to "My Movies" in the upper right corner to see films licensed by Tulane Libraries.
Alexander Street Press Video
Alexander Street Press Video contains access to films Tulane Libraries has licensed access to either through collection packages (such as Dance on Video, Theatre on Video, etc.) or through as individual titles not contained in those collections. Films not yet licensed by the library are also findable but viewing is limited to short sample clips.

Should faculty discover a film not licensed but relevant to teaching or research, please contact mediaservices@tulane.edu

Digital Theatre +
Includes a deep collection of articles, interviews, productions, and documentaries.
Open Vault (WGBH)
Video and audio recordings of shows covering historically significant events broadcast by the public television station WGBH.
Dance Online: Dance in Video
Ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Theatre in Video
Productions of core plays as well as documentaries leading playwrights, actors, and directors.
Naxos Video Library
Streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Access thousands of audio and video recordings preserved and digitized by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in collaboration with WGBH and the Library of Congress. Over 68,000 media items representing 40,000 hours of radio and television are available to researchers.
Alexander Street Press Video
Alexander Street Press Video contains access to films Tulane Libraries has licensed access to either through collection packages (such as Dance on Video, Theatre on Video, etc.) or through as individual titles not contained in those collections. Films not yet licensed by the library are also findable but viewing is limited to short sample clips.

Should faculty discover a film not licensed but relevant to teaching or research, please contact mediaservices@tulane.edu

Videatives: See What Children Know
Clips that demonstrate general principles of child development and early education.
Docuseek2
Tulane Libraries currently licenses select titles available in Docuseek2. In order to see only the films currently available, go to "My Movies" in the upper right corner to see films licensed by Tulane Libraries.
Alexander Street Press Video
Alexander Street Press Video contains access to films Tulane Libraries has licensed access to either through collection packages (such as Dance on Video, Theatre on Video, etc.) or through as individual titles not contained in those collections. Films not yet licensed by the library are also findable but viewing is limited to short sample clips.

Should faculty discover a film not licensed but relevant to teaching or research, please contact mediaservices@tulane.edu
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Access thousands of audio and video recordings preserved and digitized by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in collaboration with WGBH and the Library of Congress. Over 68,000 media items representing 40,000 hours of radio and television are available to researchers.

If a film is required for teaching or research, the library will work with academic film vendors to license streaming access or purchase a physical DVD. There are four options for requesting new material:

If you locate a film in Kanopy that is not currently licensed by the Library, then complete the request form at the bottom of the film's Kanopy page. Requests will be received by the Head of Media Services and processed for ordering.
If you locate a film in other platforms or do now know what platform a required film is available in, please contact the Head of Media Services, lisa Hooper, directly with your film needs.
Complete a Purchase Request form.
Contact your subject liaison.

Additional details about the scope and purpose of the film collection may be found in the Audio-Visual Media Collection Development Policy.

Streaming Audio

Music Online: Jazz Music Library
The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Naxos Music Library: Jazz
Offers thousands of tracks of jazz from over 2,300 albums representing hundreds of jazz artists.

Music Online: American Song
Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys.

John and Alan Lomax in Louisiana, 1934
This site is a digital resource for the study of the 1934 John and Alan Lomax trip to lower Louisiana, where they recorded a diverse array of songs in English and in Louisiana French.
National Jukebox
Contains historical recordings housed in the Library of Congress. Includes band music, classical, vocal, rag, jazz, and more.

Music Online: Contemporary World Music
The largest and most comprehensive streaming audio collection of contemporary world music.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
A collection of sound files of the world's musical and aural traditions, based on the collection of Folkways Records.

British Library of Sounds
Listen to recordings from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
Digital National Library of Serbia - Digital Collection of Records on 78 rpm
Contains various sound recordings of National Songs Lyrics performed by some of the most famous Singers of that period, Folk Dances, Hymns, and records of Popular Melodies.

Music Online: Classical Music Library
Streaming access to more than 766,000 tracks.
Naxos Music Library
Offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels.
Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
Combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles.

DRAM
Access to streaming audio with complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.

Naxos Spoken Word Library
Audio library of the spoken word. Includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays.
Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection
More than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company.

Tutorial - How to Embed Video in Canvas

This video uses streaming films from Kanopy and Swank as examples. The process, however, the same across all of the Library's streaming platforms. Please don't hesitate to send any questions to mediaservices@tulane.edu.