Vendor Platforms
- Academic Video Online: PremiumIncludes titles in anthropology, business, counseling, history, music, film, and more. Many films include closed captions and searchable transcripts.
- Docuseek 2 Includes over 1600 social issue and environmental films from a variety of vendors.
- Films on DemandIncludes titles in Science, Biomedical and Health, Social Sciences, Anthropology, History, Media and Communications, Art and Architecture, Music, Criminal Justice, Business, Education and Philosophy. Films include closed captions and transcripts.
- The HistoryMakers Digital ArchiveThis is the nation's largest video African American oral history collection. It includes transcribed interviews with 2691history makers spanning a range of historical and biographical topics and issues.
- KanopyIncludes titles in film, business, education, global studies & languages; health; media & communications; sciences and social sciences. Films include closed captions.
If you live in the Boston area and wish to use Kanopy outside of academic use, the Boston Public Library (BPL)offers Kanopy for free, and one can watch 4 films a month. First obtain and e card: https://www.bpl.org/ecard/. Here is more BPL Kanopy-related info. https://www.bpl.org/faq/online-resources/#kanopy
NU Library's Digital Repository Service
- DRSThe DRS stores and preserves streaming media produced or acquired by Northeastern University, including research tools, oral histories, and recorded performances.
- Library's Research & Instruction TutorialsHave questions about research for your class assignments? View tutorials to find out how to pick a manageable research topic, choose effective search terms, and locate peer-reviewed sources. Video tutorials are captioned.
- Snell Library's What's New Podcast SeriesAn exploration of new ideas and discoveries. The podcasts include transcripts.
Open Access Academic Sites
This portal curates academic videos and the metadata from a vast array of university YouTube channels,(including Northeastern) as well as TED and TEDx talks, scientific and cultural institutions like NASA and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, hospitals, research institutions, and such respected broadcast archives as Nova, the Science Channel and the Discovery Channel. A video transcript plays in sync with the playing videos.