Images

Kresge subscription database:
(More and more databases are starting to include images and multimedia, check individual databases
for options.)

ARTstor, a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities,
and social sciences. Instructor level tools allow faculty to store image collections, upload personal
files and incorporate resources into teaching.

The Berg Fashion Library, includes 8,000+ images from Encyclopedia of World Dress and
Fashion, and the Victoria and Albert Museum's and Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume
Institute museum collections.

Credo Reference Image search - a collection of reference titles includes Britannica Concise Encylopedia images and others

Film Image Collection - part of Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text database is the definitive online tool for film and television research.

Image Quick View Collection - part of Communication and Mass Media Complete - includes images, graphs, maps, diagrams

Sharpe Online Reference -SOLR includes a broad range of events, people, movements, and political, social, economic, and cultural issues from earliest times to the present day.

Oxford Art Online provides access to Oxford’s acclaimed art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

*View the Finding Multimedia for my Coursework and Teaching guide for an additional list of free web sources.

Audio, Videos & DVD's

GENERAL SUBJECTS:

Academic OneFile - Thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and CBC, links to hundreds of videos on medical procedures from OR-Live

Naxos Music Library - A collection of classical music available online.

Naxos Video Library - An extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.

Teaching Books - includes thousands of video and audio resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment.

VAST: Academic Video Online - Streaming videos from multiple collections ranging from the Humanities to Sports Medicine and Exercise Science, constantly adding more videos and subjects.

MEDICAL SUBJECTS:

Several of our databases include videos that can be used for instruction.
AccessMedicine - use the multimedia tab to view available video and audio
Health Reference Center Academic - General nursing and allied health topics.
Medline Plus - National Library of Medicine & NIH resouce, includes videos and interactive tutorials
Nursing Education in Video - online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers.

VIDEOS & DVD's in the LIBRARY:

Search for OU's videos in the Library Catalog either by title or using keyword and limiting to DVD - Video format. Faculty may reserve videos for their classes by contacting the Circulation Department (ext. 4425) or email (circ@oakland.edu). Videos may be picked up at the Circulation Desk and can be checked out for up to 10 days for Oakland University faculty and staff.

Students can check out most videos/DVD's for a two day loan period.

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