LibGuides: Streaming Media at Brookens: Alexander Street Press

Introduction

ProQuest's Alexander Street Press products are curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, and streaming media and audio for scholarship and research. The library subscribes to the subject based collections of thousands of hours of videos and other primary research listed below.

Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
This is an award-winning Black Studies portfolio that brings together documentaries, interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the African American experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
An electronic collection of non-fiction, primary source writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering over 250 years of history.
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Vol. 1 & 2 This link opens in a new window
A collection of streaming videos for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Videos are presented from multiple perspectives and include counseling sessions, consultations, interviews, demonstrations, lectures, and synchronized, searchable transcripts.
Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video This link opens in a new window
This collection of documentaries, training videos, and interviews illustrates the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals serving on the front lines of justice and public safety.
Current Affairs in Video This link opens in a new window
A streaming video resource featuring a collection of issue-based documentaries from around the world.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online This link opens in a new window
This unique audio collection brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata, providing a path of study of music in its cultural context. Heay focus on music obtained from field expeditions during the 1960s thru 1980s.
Ethnographic Video Online Volume 2 This link opens in a new window
A core resource for anthropology at all levels, this collection contains classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, providing teachers visual support to introduce and contextualize hundreds of cultural groups and practices around the world.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
Produced in partnership with the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the archival audio collections of various legendary recording labels, this unique database includes music from around the world along with notes, images, video and lesson plans. Search by culture, genre, instrument, year, etc.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming video for theater education. Includes filmed stage performances, master classes, documentaries, and training material.
World History in Video This link opens in a new window
This online collection of streaming video gives history scholars access to more than 1,750 critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. A rich survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin this resource is global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania