Finding Multimedia in the MIT Libraries
This guide highlights some of the multimedia resources available through the MIT Libraries. The links in this box will take you to a complete list of scholarly tools and resources in the disciplines listed. For disciplines not listed below, please see the complete list of subject guides.
Streaming Video
The following streaming video services are presently available to the MIT community:
- Academic Video Online (AVON)Streaming video service with documentary, instructional, and feature films from producers such as BBC, Documentary Educational Resources (DER), Icarus, PBS, and Sony Pictures Classics.
- Art and Architecture in VideoMore than 400 documentaries and interviews illustrating the history, theory, and practice of art, design, and architecture; includes real-time transcript highlighting, tools to make clips, embed links, etc.
- Digital Theatre PlusStreaming films of current leading British theater productions. Also includes cast and director interviews.
- DISDIS is a streaming platform for entertainment and education, enlisting leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of rising key conversations through contemporary art, culture, activism, philosophy, and technology. Video pieces are streamed for a limited run of 30 days.
- Docuseek2Streaming video collection of documentary films. Producers and distributors include Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, the National Film Board of Canada, MediaStorm, Terra Nova Films, KimStim, and Scorpion TV, and other independent filmmakers from around the world. Subjects covered include environmental studies and sciences, sociology, anthropology, global studies, area studies, women’s studies, history, political science, criminal justice, health, psychology, and the arts.
- Drama Online: The National Theatre CollectionStreaming video collection of performances from the National Theatre in London.
- Filmakers Library OnlineStreaming video of documentaries from a range of disciplines, and including the arts and literature.
- KanopyStreaming video service with documentary and feature films from producers such as Criterion, Documentary Educational Resources, New Day Films, Media Education, California Newsreel, PBS and others.
- Kino KlassikaVideo-on-demand platform dedicated exclusively to cinema from Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Coverage includes silent classics through to the Soviet era and into the 2010s.
- Literature Online (LION)Scroll down to ‘Audio and video collections’ to access streaming video and audio of poets reading their work as well as audio recordings of Shakespeare performances.
- OnArchitectureContains more than 150 interviews with architects, project walk-throughs, and other original video about architectural design. This resource offers closed captioning.
- OntheBoardsTVStreaming video of contemporary theatre, dance, and performance art. 2009 - present.
- Theatre in VideoHundreds of performances in many different genres.
Streaming Music - Audio and Video
Streaming audio:
- Naxos Music LibraryOver two million tracks of music.
- Naxos JazzRoughly 200,000 tracks representing a variety of jazz styles and periods.
- Music Online: ListeningMultidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content. Collections include American Music, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Popular Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound.
- Ethnographic Sound Archives OnlineOver 2,000 hours of historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata. Includes the following collections: southern and central Africa, Oceania, Central African Republic, South Asia, Afghanistan, American folk music/U.S.A. South Negro Folklore Collection
- DRAM [Database of Recorded American Music]American music from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond.
Streaming music video:
- Naxos Video LibraryClassical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, documentaries, and more.
- Medici.TVClassical music including concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes, artist profiles, and educational films.
- Met Opera on DemandFrom the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
- Digital Concert HallFrom the Berlin Philharmonic: live broadcasts, videos, and a large archive of recordings. Create a user account for access.
- Opera in VideoFrom Alexander Street Press
Images
Licensed and local image databases available from the MIT Libraries
- ArchnetArchnet is a globally-accessible, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world. Archnet’s mission is to provide ready access to unique visual and textual material to facilitate teaching, scholarship, and professional work of high quality.
- Dome at MITMIT Libraries digital collections can be found in Dome. There are over 70,000 images, maps, and documents. MIT certificates are required for some collections.
MIT Visual Collections * Institute Archives and Special Collections
David Taylor Model Basin * Project Whirlwind
MIT Communications Forum * Perceptual Form of the City
Aga Khan Visual Archive * Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation Collection - ARTstor MIT onlyA subscription based digital library of over one million historical and contemporary images related to art, architecture, world events, the humanities and social sciences. Open to anyone on campus. For off campus access to MIT faculty and students, an account is required. See ARTstor Terms and Conditions of Use.
Streaming Audio Books
- EBSCO Audiobook CollectionA small collection of fiction, history, and other e-audiobooks for download. Download the EBSCO Audiobook app from Google Play or the Apple store and login with your Touchstone account.
