Research Guides: Media & Communication Studies: Find Images and Video

Streaming Video Resources

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Ethnographic Video Online (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Ethnographic Video Online collections contain over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork. It’s also a resource for the study of the discipline; scholars, teachers and students of anthropology can gain a sense of the discipline’s history and of its future direction.
Films On Demand: Master Academic Package (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand‘s platform provides every academic department on campus with the most essential video titles for their field of study. It supplies 37,000 titles in 985 categories.
Films on Demand: Archival Films & Newsreels Collection (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
This collection of 4,606 titles is a trove of archival and historical films from multiple sources that supplements the Films on Demand: Master Academic Package.

For photographs and other digitized images held in the Kuhn Library, use the Special Collections search pages.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
The ARTstor Digital Library is an online resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
To use the full functionality of the Artstor Digital Library you must be logged in through the library website and have created a personal account.
-The basic/advanced search on the Artstor homepage searches the Artstor Digital Library and Public Collections [we have no institutional collections]
-You do not need a personal account to search but you do need it to save images.
-Your saved images will appear in Personal Collections, you will have to login to retrieve/view your images.
-Images saved for a class or presentation can be shared in Groups. Anybody with a personal account can create a Group (you will see UMBC examples when you click on Groups)
Additional Help
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Art Online offers users access to: Grove Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as additional articles and bibliographies. Account allows for a maximum of three concurrent users.

Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Online
The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.