Academic Video Online (AVON)
The Chester Fritz Library subscribes to Academic Video Online (AVON), which offers unlimited access and public performance rights for more than 70,000 streaming videos. These include:
- Documentaries from Film Platform, BBC Landmark Collection, 60 Minutes, PBS (including Ken Burns), and more
- Foreign films
- Performances
- Award-winning films - browse by award
- Classic films, including Sony Pictures Classics
- Newsreels, interviews, commercials, and historical footage
- Virtual Reality videos
- Training and instructional materials
More information about the AVON collection is available on the AVON webpage.
Select a channel or collection, search, or click on the filter icon to find a video of interest:
Streaming Video
CFL also has the following sources of online video content:
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Academic Search UltimateAcademic Search Ultimate offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
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Business Source UltimateProvides a wide variety of business full-text journals and magazines, including expanded access to Harvard Business Review’s (HBR) top 500 articles. Includes company information on over 1 million public and private companies with case studies, SWOT analysis, market research reports, and Standard and Poor’s Industry Surveys. Offers over 27,000 business videos from Academy of Management, HBR, Bloomberg and IGI Global.
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Psychotherapy.netA library of over 300 training videos featuring master psychotherapists conducting therapy.
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AccessEngineeringEngineering reference tool for professionals, academics, and students that provides access to a collection of authoritative, regularly updated engineering reference information. AccessEngineering also comprises dynamic online features, such as instructional, faculty-made videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts, as well as personalization tools allowing users to organize project information as they work.
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Credo Video CollectionThis link provides a list of over 280 educational videos on a wide variety of subject areas. You can browse the list by title or you can do a keyword search. You can also view 22 titles of specific Credo Video Collections, such as Bloomberg, Cambridge Educational Videos, Food & Cooking, Inside Science, Masterworks for art history, National Geographic, and NewsHour.
Streaming Video Examples
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Ancient GreeceFrom the National Geographic Video Collection in Credo Reference.
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Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Make It Look EffortlessOne in a series of videos in AccessEngineering, Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs.