The Library has entered into an agreement with Alexander Street Press (http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/com.pl?alexander) in which close to 40,000 videos comprising over 18,000 hours will be available to you for a 1-year trial starting September 1.  This multitude of videos belong to over 40 award-winning collections: Art and Architecture, Asian Film, Business Education, Classical Music, Current Affairs, Environmental Studies, Filmakers Library, Performing Arts, Psychological Experiments and lots more.  VAST: Academic Video Online, a huge multi-disciplinary video collection, is included in the agreement.

 

 

 

Kanopy, another major online video provider, is also offering an extended trial until the end of 2014 (http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/kanopy.pl).  It is a rich catalog of 5,000 videos across a broad range of subjects – Anthropology, Art and Fashion, Business, Computer Science and Engineering, Gender, History, Media and Communications and others.  Its Business collection features Stanford Executive Briefings, Commonwealth Club Speaker series, Asian Business Leaders, to name a few.

 

 

 

The Library also acquired JOVE Science Education Database (http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/jove.pl?sed), a first of its kind database dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy to understand video demonstrations.  270 short videos are now available in 3 collections: General Laboratory Techniques, Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Model Organisms I: yeast, Drosophila and C. elegans.

 

 

Seize the chance, and enjoy the videos for leisure, learning and teaching.