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18 Databases found for Videos

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Alternate Name(s) AVON, Alexander Street Press, ASP
Academic Video Online: Premium is an Alexander Street Press (ASP) collection that consists of thousands of streaming videos from a large number of produces and distributors across a wide range of subject areas, including 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, theater, women's studies, and more.
Anatomy TV enables you to rotate a 360 degree view of the human body in 15 layers. Anatomy is labeled making this an excellent tool for studying anatomy.

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Dance in Video will contain 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Alternate Name(s) Docuseek
Docuseek2 provides access to academic streaming videos, with over 600 titles in all major disciplines.

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Education in Video is an online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. This growing collection of videos will eventually contain more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
An online collection of classic and contemporary documentaries in the fields of anthropology, ethnography and social psychology.

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Filmakers Library Online provides access to more than 1,000 award-winning documentaries.
Films On Demand provides access to more than 11,000 online streaming videos from the Films Media Group.

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To use this resource users must create an account with a valid GVSU email address.

The ICE Video Library provides access to 185+ short video clips, illustrating a wide range of diagnoses and treatment settings and designed specifically for students and faculty studying physical therapy and occupational therapy. Access also includes StrokeHelp® Video Courses.

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Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service that provides access to a wide variety of films, series, and documentaries. If there are specific films that are required viewing for your courses, you can search by title on Kanopy's catalog and fill out Kanopy’s request form that appears for films not currently licensed through GVSU Libraries.

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Providing access to more than 250 videos, LGBT Studies provides students and researchers across disciplines a multi-content perspective on the LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. It provides key resources of interest to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, psychology, counseling, history, political science, gender studies, cultural studies, and religious studies.

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Met Opera On Demand provides instant access to more than 650 full-length Metropolitan performances.

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Nursing Assessment in Video provides demonstrations and step-by-step instructions for performing physical assessments of patients.
Nursing Education in Video is a unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with U.S. Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS.

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Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.

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Rehabilitation Therapy in Video has more than 350 videos in the areas of occupational therapy, physical/physiotherapy, and speech-language pathology. The collection allows students and faculty to easily find, cite, and share footage of top clinicians and academics explaining the underlying anatomical and neurological issues in specific patient populations, while demonstrating effective techniques and methods for their treatment.

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With more than 350 videos, Sports Medicine and Exercise Science features an array of internationally renowned physicians, exercise scientists, certified athletic trainers, physical therapists, registered dietitians, sport psychologists, personal trainers, and health/wellness experts who share information, ideas, and insights on the principles, techniques, and modalities of modern exercise science and sports medicine.

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Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all.

New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
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Alternate Name(s) Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research
Diversifying and Decolonizing Research supports users in conducting research that is both critical and inclusive, offering a rich library of inspiring case studies, expert videos, datasets, and how-to guides. This collection showcases a diverse range of experiences and approaches from marginalized, underrepresented, underserved, and vulnerable communities. Delve into a wide range of methodologies, from qualitative to quantitative, mixed and Indigenous methods, all enriched by international contributors with diverse backgrounds. Researchers at all levels of expertise will be able to gain the conceptual grounding and practical support needed to apply these concepts to their own research projects.
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Alternate Name(s) National Institute of Standards and Technology ICSD
The NIST Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) is produced by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It is a comprehensive collection of crystal structure data of inorganic compounds containing more than 210,000 entries and covering the literature from 1913.
The NIST ICSD web site provides materials researchers with an interface to search the database based on bibliographic information, chemistry, unit cell, space group, experimental settings, mineral name/group and other derived data from expert evaluation. In addition, it also provides users with functions to create and examine results from various crystallographic computations, such as reduced cell, bond distance/angle, calculated powder diffraction data, and structure standardization.
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Alternate Name(s) Global Social Progress Index
The Social Progress Index is one of the world’s largest curated collections of social and environmental data. It uniquely concentrates on the non-economic aspects of global social performance, providing transparent and actionable data and comprehensive insights into the true state of our society. PLEASE NOTE: Users must sign up for an account using their GVSU email address to use this resource.
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The World Religion Database (WRD), hosted at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA), contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides information from country censuses as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of religion and non-religion in the past, present, and future.
The WRD offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world’s religions (18 categories, including atheists and agnostics) for the period 1900 to 2050. The WRD will be updated with new information as it becomes available, such as estimates of religious affiliation at the province level within countries and religious freedom information for all countries.

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