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VAST: Academic Video Online
VAST: Academic Video Online is Alexander Street’s flagship video subscription, bringing together thousands of video titles in a wide range of disciplines. With thousands and thousands of full-length titles and growing by more than 400 titles per month, VAST includes thousands of award-winning films from dozens of producers and distributors. VAST delivers core video content to your undergraduate and graduate departments and will become an integral part of the curriculum in virtually every department.
Scope
VAST is designed to bring the highest-quality video content to the broadest range of subject areas. Faculty and students will find content in VAST to meet their learning, teaching, and research interest in the following areas and more: art, architecture, business, counseling and therapy, dance, economics, education, ethnic studies, ethnography, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, humanities, law and public safety, literature, opera, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, theatre, and women’s studies.
Whether you need early twentieth-century newsreels for your history department, contemporaneous field recordings of previously undocumented cultures for anthropology coursework, or just-released documentaries exploring current events in political science, you’ll find high-quality and relevant content quickly and easily.
Content
Dozens of the most interesting and vital producers and distributors have contributed content to VAST, including BBC, PBS, Arthaus, CBS, Kino International, Documentary Educational Resources, California Newsreel, Opus Arte, Cinema Guild, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, Psychotherapy.net, Zeitgeist, First Run Features, and many more. VAST is also the only place you’ll find counseling and therapy training videos from Microtraining and issue-based documentaries from Filmakers Library.
Titles in VAST are carefully selected to meet departmental needs and include documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and news reels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage.
You’ll find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy® and Emmy® winners, the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, newly-released films, and archival material previously unavailable.
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Value
VAST is the most cost-effective way to bring video to your patrons. If purchased individually, the films would cost hundreds of dollars each—but the annual subscription pricing for VAST delivers the same videos for as little as a few dollars per title. And you receive all the new content uploaded throughout the year as part of your subscription plan
Platform functionality
- Create and share custom clips and playlists
- Speed-browse video with a visual TOC
- View synchronized scrolling transcripts alongside the videos, search the transcript while watching, and jump forward and backward to your selection
- Cite whole videos or just your individual custom clips using permanent URLs
- Email, share, and embed links in your coursepack, LibGuide, and LMS
- Access the videos with your mobile device (iPhone, iPad, Android)
- View and download free MARC records
Publication details
VAST is available by subscription to academic libraries worldwide. No special setup or software is required—all you need is a Web browser. To request your free trial and a quote, please email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com or submit a trial request form here.