LibGuides: Research Anywhere: Online Multimedia Collections

UVic Library Multimedia Collections Online

ARTstor Images from some of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. Artstor facilitates research and education in numerous disciplines, including art and visual studies, architecture, religion, anthropology and archaeology, global studies, fashion and costume, classics, world history, and more.

Streaming Music Databases

Classical Music LIbrary
Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings. Classical Music Library includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (eg Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels.
Naxos
The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month.

Smithsonian Global Sound Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.

Streaming Video Resources

This is a list of our subscription - based video streaming resources. As films are licensed for a specific period (usually one year), the content may vary from time to time.

Artfilms-Digital
Artfilms, from Contemporary Arts Media offers more than 5000 films for arts education and arts practitioners. The unique collection originates from Australia, UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, France, Hungary, Canada, Switzerland, Pakistan, Indonesia, Africa and Japan. Included are masterclasses, documentaries, interviews, content that can entertain, educate and inform: Artfilms streams thousands of videos from top artists and producers.
Audio Cine Films
Audio Cine Films Inc. is the exclusive public performance rights representative for numerous major studios and thousands of movies.
Criterion
A mediated video streaming service containing films that have been licensed by UVic.
Docuseek
To see the films we have licensed, click on ‘log in’, selected University of Victoria under 'Institutional log in' then select Browse at the top.
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Contains films that have been licensed by the UVIc Libraries.
Films on Demand
Videos that have been licensed by UVic.
FIlm Platform
Contains films that have been licensed by the UVIc Libraries.
Indigenous Cinema at NFB
Discover the NFB’s rich online collection
of Indigenous-made films.
IsumaTV
IsumaTV, host 7,800+ indigenous community videos in 70 languages.
Kanopy
Kanopy is a mediated database of online educational videos featuring a wide variety of subject areas.
Medici TV
Medici.tv offers free live broadcasting of concerts, operas and ballets along with video on demand
NFB Campus
Includes over 3000 mostly Canadian documentaries and other films
Psychotherapy.net Video Collection
Streaming training videos in the field of counseling, psychotherapy, addiction, and more. The collection includes videos featuring various types of therapy using a wide representation of client populations.
Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press)
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
UVic Licensed Videos
Films that UVic is licensed to stream.