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Combined search platform for Alexander Street text, audio, and video collections.
Search across all video, audio, and text collections provided by Alexander Street. By making your own account, you can save and share clips and playlists. A list of the collections within Alexander Street is available online.
Over 30,000 documentary and feature films from an array of producers and distributors.
Kanopy Streaming offers a variety of documentary and feature films from an array of producers and distributors including BBC Active, California Newsreel, Checkerboard Films, Criterion Collection/Janus films, Documentary Educational Resources, First Run Features, Green Planet Films, Kino Lorber Edu, Media Education Foundation, National Film Board of Canada, PBS, Psychotherapy.net, and the DEFA Film Library's (East) German Film Collection.
All videos work on PCs with Flash, iPads, iPhones, and mobile devices. To facilitate teaching, they can be projected in lecture halls, embedded in authenticated web pages, and watched off-campus (with login) with unlimited simultaneous viewers. Users can also create Playlists and make clips.
Unlimited, full text access to business, technical, and engineering e-books.
Access to Skillsoft Books is through login with your UM username & password. When you have logged in, Skillsoft will assign you a unique, anonymous identifier that will give you access to personalized features such as notations and favorites. You may opt in and provide your personal information if you desire.
For information about added functions for mobile use and for mobile app information, please see the Skillport help documentation.