Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers 80,000+* titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 18,000* titles are exclusive to Alexander Street, all with a predictable annual cost.
Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons, giving libraries a high return on investment.
NOW AVAILABLE! Video Interaction Functionality will connect library content to the classroom and enhance student engagement for faculty by offering meaningful ways to leverage streaming video for collaboration, reflection, and assessment.
For faculty: This new functionality promotes student engagement by allowing professors to embed assessment and pedagogical tools within videos giving them a better understanding of student comprehension of course concepts. Interactive features include:
Student results can be reported in the LMS gradebook, and faculty will have access to real-time analytics, to adapt their teaching based on student results to facilitate improved learning outcomes.
For libraries: This offers more opportunity for usage and ROI of streaming video through Academic Video Online. Video interaction functionality encourages:
Inspiring documentaries. Thought-provoking films. Arthouse favorites. Practical training videos. With unlimited access to twice the videos of any library provider, Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive streaming video solution for libraries*.
We're proud to support the need for audio description in Academic Video Online! If you have a student who needs an accommodation for a particular assigned video, please notify Product Manager Sarah Brennan. We’ll then have an audio described version of that video created and added to Academic Video Online, at no charge. We strive to complete all requests within 2-3 weeks.
Available in Academic Video Online and ProQuest One Academic
See an overview of the database with links to guides, tutorials, and more. Visit the Libguide.
Films available in Academic Video Online include limited public performance rights, which includes permission for classroom showings, as well as public screenings, as long as no admission is being charged.**
Stay up to date on the new content coming into Academic Video Online here.
Academic Video Online includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations. Patrons will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Academic institutions will find the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
Academic Video Online covers many disciplines and subject areas, with specific strengths in:
Free and EXCLUSIVE to Academic Video Online subscribing libraries only. Upload an unlimited amount of locally produced streaming content, or content you've licensed from other vendors, and make it visible to your institution. Librarians add metadata for discoverability and permanently link content to their catalogs. Learn more.
It includes:
Watch an overview. Current subscriber can start using the admin portal now at http://adminportal.alexanderstreet.com.
If you are not a customer and would like your own personal tour, email sales@proquest.com.
The collection represents content from over 800 leading distributors, producers, and filmmakers. Some of the top names include:
Content from 60 MINUTES, FILM PLATFORM, Sony Pictures Classics, Juno Films, Microtraining Associates and more are not available through any other platforms in the academic market.
We offer:
We've done all the work for you, so you don't have to. Share this marketing video with your faculty and students. Use this Online PR Kit to help promote Academic Video Online. It includes:
Researcher use of video almost doubled from 2014 to 2017 According to a recent ProQuest survey, video experienced the most dramatic increase in popularity among researchers of all content types. In 2015, only 39% of respondents were using video in their research. In 2017, use climbed to 71%, confirming the anecdotal evidence we’ve all seen. Learn about this and other research we've been doing at ProQuest.
Meet the video advisory board that contributes its expertise to the development of our high-quality video collections.
In addition to the breadth and depth of content, Academic Video Online offers a wide range of platform tools for learning, research, and teaching, including:
Academic Video Online contains a full suite of library tools including:
This database (Academic Video Online) has been invaluable, especially during the pandemic and with periods of remote instruction. What has been especially helpful has been all of the PBS content as well as the surprising amount of foreign language films you carry (our Modern Languages department deeply appreciates that).
Caroline Bartels, July 2021 Head Librarian, Katz Library, Horace Mann School
The demand and popularity of streaming video in libraries are undeniable and growing at a steady pace. Academic Video Online has been a popular choice in libraries for many years, and with good reason. Its catalog is large and diverse, with strengths in many different subject areas. It employs desirable modules for educational institutions, offers customization options, and provides administrative tools for retrieving data and reports. Overall, an excellent resource for libraries serving educational organizations at any level.
Library Journal, November 2019 By Rob Tench
The case for acquiring Academic Video Online is compelling. First, annual costs are predictable. Just as important, the company’s Build-by-Choice approach means that “at the end of each subscription term, your entire subscription cost is automatically applied towards owning perpetual rights to your choice of video titles,” with that year’s usage data informing the selection process. The longer an institution subscribes, the more titles it will own outright.
Library Journal, October 2017
Academic Video Online provides a vast database of film and video clips from documentary, newsreel, entertainment, and television sources. The range of material is broad and deep... The thematic range and temporal span make the collection relevant to many disciplines, courses, and student levels.
Joseph E. Taylor, III, Dept. of History, Simon Fraser University American Reference Books Annual (ARBA)
Looking for individual titles requested by faculty takes time and is often unsuccessful. We needed a comprehensive video resource that we could market to the whole university.
Victoria Koger, Collection Management Librarian, Eastern Kentucky University
Academic Video Online—with its massive library of more than 62,446 titles running nearly 30,000 hours—matches well with the conventional liberal arts curriculum....The case for acquiring Academic Video Online is compelling.
Library Journal