Several electronic resources from Alexander Street Press are now available online for MTSU faculty, staff and students. A Pipeline account is required to access the videos off campus. All are accessible from Voyager. http://voyager.mtsu.edu
A suite of tools—searches and browses powered by Semantic Indexing™ and searchable transcripts synchronized to video—give the ability to drill down in seconds to find the footage of interest from hundreds of hours of video.
1. Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection’s wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible.
The videos in this collection, come from catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry.
2. 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 – more than 500 hours in all.
Multiple productions of Shakespeare’s plays will allow for comparative analysis, showing various interpretations of the text and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. The stage work of legendary directors and actors are together for the first time, cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers and actors, along with excerpts of live performances.
Users can create personal playlists of clips, and also share those clips with other users on the site. There are also editorially selected themed playlists for users to browse.
3. Dance in Video contains over 150 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.
4. American History in Video provides a collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
