Great Content From Distinguished Partners

We've partnered with the BBC, Creative Arts Television, ArtHaus Musik, Pennebaker, Hegedus Films, Cunningham Dance Foundation, Insight Media, and dozens of other important publishers and broadcast companies to bring users the most valuable, authoritative video content available—most of it in copyright and available online now for the first time.

Video Content That's Semantically Indexed For Uniquely Powerful Search Capabilities

With physical video formats, there's only one way in—through time. With a DVD you may get scene breaks, but there's no way to identify the exact moment you're looking for. With Critical Video Editions you can pinpoint the exact second you're looking for, using multiple points of access. Search by date, performers, scene, aria—whatever you want—and find it an instant. Where available, full-text transcripts give you yet another way to access content quickly and efficiently.

Powerful Browse Capabilities

Using videos and DVDs is slow and frustrating. You can't easily know what's in the video without taking the time to watch the whole thing. Who has the time to do that? Across lots of videos? With Critical Video Editions, you can see what's in hundreds of hours of video—in seconds.

Visual Tables of Contents

Navigating video is now as easy as flipping through the pages of a book. In American History in Video, for example, sequential thumbnail photos let you see quickly what's in the video from beginning to end. Click on any image and jump directly to that part of the video.

No Set Up Time, No Special Equipment Or Software Needed

Once authenticated, there are no technical barriers to access. Everything you need is provided within the collection itself, including the video player. All Alexander Street Critical Video Editions™ work on both PCs and Macs. And because it's streaming video, there are no files to download.

Citable Video Content

Until now it's been impossible to cite video content below the level of the title of the video or DVD. Now, the specific sections you want to cite, including your personal clips, reside at permanent URLs—citable to the second!

Custom Clip-Making Tools

You want to capture portions of videos for educational, research, instructional, and personal use. But this has been difficult or impossible because of copyright restrictions, and other issues. With Alexander Street's Critical Video Editions™, making custom clips is easy. Instructors can put the clips into class assignments and course folders, annotate them, put them on electronic course reserve, and use them in other ways.

Personal Playlists

As with music, you want to create a playlist of favorite segments of one or more videos. Alexander Street's famous music playlist tools are built into Critical Video Editions, too. Create playlists, choose whether or not to share them, view others' playlists, edit and combine lists, and even add URLs from other resources such as Web sites or other databases.

Embeddable Links

Once you identify a video, you want to include a link to it on your library homepage or within papers, in PowerPoint presentations, or email. Don't drive users to the content—bring the content to your users. It's easy with Critical Video Editions.

Easy And Affordable

There are thousands of hours of video available right now in Opera in Video, Dance in Video, Theatre in Video, and the BBC Shakespeare Series. More is coming soon with American History in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video, and other collections. Subscribe annually or purchase perpetual rights. There are prices for everyone, starting at just a few hundred dollars. There's no set up involved or plug-ins required—just point your Web browser and you're there. Access to great video is now available 24/7, on and off campus.