LibGuides: Streaming Video: Alexander Street Press

Alexander Street Press

Dance Online: Dance in Video This link opens in a new window Dance in Video contains 600 works, equaling 365 hours of 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.
Ethnographic Video Online, Volumes 1 & 2: Foundational Films This link opens in a new window "Ethnographic Video Online brings together a wide range of streaming video, covering human behavior the world over. Essential for the study of anthropology, as well as the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography, the database will contain more than 1,100 documentary films, including previously unpublished material from individual filmmakers."
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume 3: Indigenous Voices This link opens in a new window
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume 4: Festivals and Archives This link opens in a new window
Music Online: Opera in Video This link opens in a new window "Opera in Video contains five hundred hours 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."
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window When complete, Theatre in Video will contain 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, representing hundreds of playwrights, actors, and directors (current release includes 213 videos comprising about 235 hours).

Linking

Each video in Alexander Street Press collection has a persistent link and an embed code.

To link to videos in Alexander Street Press

Identify and select a video in a database.

Click on Share in the options at the top of the screen

The persistent URL and an embed code for the video will display at the bottom of the screen.
- Example: Persistent Link
http://search.alexanderstreet.com.libpublic3.library.isu.edu/ativ/view/work/1779981
- Example: Embed Link
  <iframe src="https://search.alexanderstreet.com.libpublic3.library.isu.edu/embed/token/0683mc9n6ssjie1h" frameborder="0" width="470" height="390"></iframe>

Copy the persistent link to employ in Moodle or other course management system tools for creating content

To embed video in Moodle: https://docs.moodle.org/39/en/Video