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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) videos now available

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The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) content is now live in Academic Video Online: Premium (111 titles), ASCD is exclusive to Alexander Street.

ASCD is a global leader in developing and producing innovative content and services to support educational leadership and training for success in the classroom. ASCD represents a global community of 125,000 members, including superintendents, principals, teachers, and advocates from more than 138 countries. Its award-winning video catalogue illustrates classroom scenes of effective, research-based teaching practices and offers advice from top education experts to help bring school improvement ideas and strategies to life.

The ASCD catalogue of video includes a substantive list of demonstration videos, instruction, strategy, and analysis.  ASCD logo

Titles include:

  •          Unpacking the Common Core Standards Using the UbD Framework
  •          ASCD Master Class Leadership Series
  •          How to Prepare Students for Standardized Tests
  •          Instructional Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom
  •          Giving Effective Feedback to Your Students
  •          Integrating Literacy into Curriculum
  •          Best Practices in Action: Using Analogies to Enhance Background Knowledge
  •          A Visit to a Data-Driven School District
  •          Leadership Strategies for Principals
  •          Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping

A bibliography of the titles is available here.  These will be added to DiscoverEd in due course.

 

Academic Video Online – more content added

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During the summer we took out a subscription to Academic Video Online following a successful trial earlier this year.  A further 1,462 videos have been added across multiple subject areas.  Content is regularly added to this database.  See the full list of Academic Video Online content here.  Columns can be filtered by collection, subject or to highlight the new content only.  We will continue to add alerts about new content throughout the academic year.

Subject links

Art & Design – Art & Architecture, Fashion Studies

Diversity – Asian Studies, Black Studies, LGBT, Women’s Studies

Health Sciences – Counselling and Therapy, Health Policy, Medical Imaging, Nursing, Rehabilitation, Sports Science, Veterinary Science

History – World History, Women’s History, American History

Literature & Language – Drama, Film, Language, Literature

Music & Performing Arts – Classical Music, Dance, Film, Jazz, American Song, Popular Music, Theatre, World Music

Personal Interest – Cooking, How-to, Travel

Psychology and Counselling

Science & Engineering

Social Sciences – Anthropology, Business & Economics, Criminal Justice, Education, Environment, Food, Human Rights, Media Studies, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Social Theory

Further info

Access this database via the main AZ list list as well as several subject specific AZ lists.  Content is in the process of being added to DiscoverEd.

Further info about this resource also appears on the SPS Librarian blog and the New College Librarian blog.

Trial access to Academic Video Online

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We have trial access to Academic Video Online (via Alexander Street Press) until 30th April.  Please complete a trial feedback form if you would like the library to subscribe to any of the subject collections.

Academic Video Online is a multidisciplinary collection of videos that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. It delivers more than 48,000 video titles spanning essential subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, history, music, film, and more. More than half of the titles can be found only at Alexander Street.  With 400 new titles added per month, this collection is unmatched in its breadth.  Academic Video Online allows students and researchers alike to analyse unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world.

In addition to the breadth and depth of content, Academic Video Online offers a wide range of platform tools for learning, research, and teaching, including:

  • Learning segments. More than 14,000 learning segments make it easy for instructors to find and integrate specific video content into the classroom and help users get to the right content faster. Each segment is fully searchable and includes an abstract, making user selection even easier.
  • Transcripts. Users view searchable, scrolling transcripts alongside more than 95% of titles.
  • Clipping functionality. Users can easily create, annotate, and share video clips and playlists, and can embed them in third-party sites.
  • Permanent URLs. All videos, clips, and playlists can be cited at permanent URLs, making integration with any learning management system easy.
  • HD-quality player. A video player with a 16:9 aspect ratio that streams up to 2.5 mbps allows for optimized high-definition viewing.
  • Comprehensive permissions. Our platform enables in-class, on-campus, and remote viewing.

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Academic Video Online – streamed video, all disciplines – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/avon

Playlists – all disciplines – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/playlists – register to make your own

DISCIPLINE URLs

Art & Design – Art & Architecture, Fashion Studies – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/art-design

Diversity – Asian Studies, Black Studies, LGBT, Women’s Studies – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/diversity

Health Sciences – Counselling and Therapy, Health Policy, Medical Imaging, Nursing, Rehabilitation, Sports Science, Veterinary Science – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/health-sciences

History – World History, Women’s History, American History – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/history

Literature & Language – Drama, Film, Language, Literature – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/literature-language

Music & Performing Arts – Classical Music, Dance, Film, Jazz, American Song, Popular Music, Theatre, World Music – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/music-performing-arts

Personal Interest – Cooking, How-to, Travel – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/personal-interest

Psychology and Counselling – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/psychology-counseling

Science & Engineering – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/science-engineering

Social Sciences – Anthropology, Business & Economics, Criminal Justice, Education, Environment, Food, Human Rights, Media Studies, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Social Theory – http://search.alexanderstreet.com/social-sciences

 

Academic Video Online can also be accessed via DiscoverEd and the E-Resources Trial Webpage

Classical Scores Library: Volumes III and IV

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SHMUWe have trial access to Classical Scores Library: Volumes III and IV until the 1st November.

Vol.III  of Alexander Street’s Classical Scores Library series brings together 400,000 additional pages of in-copyright editions from composers worldwide.  The collection provides editions from major publishers like Chester Music, Novello & Company, Faber Music, Wilhelm Hansen, Donemus, and others. It provides expanded coverage of great choral works and instrumental scores for brass, woodwind, and other instrument groups.

Vol.IV  of Alexander Street’s Classical Scores Library series places particular focus on canonical contemporary composers from the 20th and 21st centuries. With many scores newly digitized for the academic market, or licensed directly from the composers themselves, music scholars and faculty will find Classical Scores Library: Volume IV to be a reliable source for authoritative scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery and dissemination of lesser-known contemporary works.

Access this trial via the E-Resources Trial Webpage or DiscoverED where the first two volumes of the Classical Scores library can also be found – search for “Music & Performing Arts”

Feedback and further info

We are interested to know what you think of this e-resource as your comments influence purchase decisions so please do fill out our feedback form.

A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

Music Online Premium Service – updated content

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Our Music Online Premium Service has been updated in the following collections:

CLMUbuttonClassical Music Library  – CLMU: 808 albums, 11,701 tracks – This update includes titles from labels such as LSO Live, Chandos, Telarc, Nimbus Records, Donemus, and Mariinsky.

 

WOMUbuttonContemporary World Music – WOMU: 49 albums 716 tracks – This release includes albums from labels including ARC Music Productions, Alabianca, and Topic Records.

 

AMSObuttonAmerican Song – AMSO: 11 albums 209 tracks – This release features bluegrass, zydeco, jazz, blues, and folk from Rounder Records, Tompkins Square Records, Smithsonian Folkways, and Rebel Records.

 

JAZZbuttonJazz Music Library – JAZZ: 3 albums 23 tracks – this release features a recording of the reunion of the legendary Oscar Peterson Trio (Saturday Night at the Blue Note), wonderful jazz arrangements of well-known classical works (Jacques Loussier Trio Plays Debussy), and a live Dave Brubeck album (Late Night Brubeck: Live From the Blue Note).

 

MUCObuttonPopular Music Library – POPS: 3 albums, 39 tracks –Prima Voce: John McCormack (Nimbus), Magnificat (Telarc) and Dekoor: Tuesdays (Hänssler Classic).

 

SmithsonianbuttonSmithsonian – GLMU: 1 album, 16 tracks – Klezmer Music 1910-1942: Recordings from the YIVO Archives (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings).

 

Video Updates…

 CLMVbutton4_0Classical Music in Video – CLMV: 24 titles, 18 hours including Ercole Amante, Maurice Ravel: The Colour of Music, Sondheim! A Birthday Concert – featuring performances by Mandy Patinkin, Patti Lupone, Bernadette Peters, Audra McDonald, and others.

 

Further info

Further information about our databases is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-a-z or see our Music A-Z list.

If an item you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.

Education at Alexander Street Press – new e-resource

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logo We have added Education at Alexander Street Press to our catalogue and A-Z list.

UK-based Teachers TV has been producing instructional videos since 2008 and was government funded until the site closed down in 2011. Alexander Street Press has licensed this material and is pleased to make it available free to all libraries in the UK and Ireland.

Education at Alexander Street Press focuses on the development and training of teachers. Content includes primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms, demonstrations, lectures, and documentaries to help both new and experienced teachers develop their abilities to teach, mentor, understand, and communicate with students of all levels of need  and a list of the titles available in this collection is available here.

Further information about our databases can be found at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases

 

 

Trial – Women and Social Movements, International Archive

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WASIbuttonWe have trial access to Women and Social Movements, International Archive until the 8th November.  Access this database on campus or off campus via the VPN.

Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.

Feedback and further info

We are interested to know what you think of this database as your comments influence purchase decisions so please do fill out our feedback form.

A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

Music Online – new content added

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Music Online has been significantly updated this week with the addition of:

  • 4.5 million independent popular music tracks
  • 1.4 million world music tracks
  • 510,000 American song tracks
  • 440,000 classical music tracks
  • 740,000 jazz tracks

Music Online Premium Service from Alexander Street Press, provides access to 13 music collections: African American Music Reference; American Song; Classical Music in Video; Classical Music Library; Classical Music Reference Library; Classical Scores Library: Volume I; Classical Scores Library: Volume II; Contemporary World Music; Dance in Video; The Garland Encyclopaedia of World Music Online; Jazz Music Library; Opera in Video; Smithsonian Global Sound(r) for Libraries.  It can be accessed via our general A-Z list or our A-Z list for Music e-resources.

Trials ending this weekend

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Last chance to try out these databases!

From Alexander Press we have 3 databases on trial until Sunday 13th July.

Anthropology Online

Anthropology Online provides a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminar texts,memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behaviour the world over. It includes complete works of key practitioners and theorists alike through the discipline.

 

 

Ethnographic Video Online Series 1 and Series 2 are a multi-volume resource providing 1,200 hours of documentaries, primary-source footage, and select feature films for the visual study of human culture and behaviour. Publishing partners include Documentary Educational Resources (DER), Royal Anthropology Institute (RAI), and BBC. It is global in coverage with footage from every continent and hundreds of cultures.  For further information on this resource go to SPS Librarian blog.

 

From CNKI we have 4 databases on trial until Saturday12th July.

China Core Newspapers Full-text Database covers 544 titles of core newspapers officially published in mainland China since year 2000.

China Reference Works Online  contains 4,000 reference works from 200 publishers, including dictionaries, handbooks, encyclopedias, atlas, chronicles, manuals etc.

China Statistical Yearbooks Database contains full coverage of all officially published yearbooks and other statistical materials.

CNKI e-resources on trial

China Yearbooks Full-text Database this includes 2,161 titles of yearbooks since 1912, 480 of which being central level and 1,151 local titles, with original display and browsing features.

 

From ProQuest we have 19 databases on trial until Sunday 13th July.

ProQuest History Vault provides access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, and more documenting the most widely studied topics in 18th-century through 20th-century American history. The databases we are currently trialling are Black Freedom 1, Black Freedom 2, Immigration, Law and Society since the Civil War, NAACP 1- 6, Plantations 1, Politics and Society 1960-1975, Slavery and the Law, US Military Intelligence Reports 1911-1944, Vietnam War, Women’s Rights 1, Women’s Rights 2 and World War II.  ProQuest logo

Our final ProQuest database on trial is the Digital National Security Archive. Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.

 Feedback and further info

We are interested to know what you think of these databases as your comments influence purchase decisions so please do fill out our feedback form.

A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.