Research Guides: Art & Ecology: Media

Media

Alexander Street Press eVideo Collections This link opens in a new window
Provides access to multi-disciplinary streaming videos.
Ambrose Digital This link opens in a new window
Educational videos covering the sciences, history, and literature. Includes: Great Directors, Great Authors of the British Isles and Great Irish Authors, BBC Classics, James Burkes' Connections, Ascent of Man, videos chronicling ancient history in the Americas, the history of American Indian achievement, and the history of Hispanic achievement in America.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Includes images across the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. Related: JSTOR - now includes ARTstor content.

Biodiversity Heritage Library Flickr
The Biodiversity Heritage Library makes its plates and image resources available through Flickr under a Creative Commons (CC BY 2.0) license. Images include historical hand drawn specimen plates, photographs, handwritten works, maps, and more.
Collections @ Smithsonian
Search or Browse the extensive Smithsonian Institution Museum and Archives

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This database supports film and television research, including critical analysis of film & television, theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Coverage: 1914-present.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary streaming documentaries, educational, and corporate videos.
NOTE: Search results include film segment titles as well as film titles. To search film titles only, use the ALL FORMATS filter.

Flickr Commons
The Flickr Commons was launched on January 16 2008, when it released a pilot project in partnership with The Library of Congress. The program has two main objectives: To increase access to publicly-held photography collections, and to provide a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge. The Commons provides photographs that fall outside of known copyright restrictions and are free for public use.

JSTOR Global Plants This link opens in a new window
JSTOR Global Plants is the world's largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international botany research and collaboration. It brings together content, tools, and people interested in plant science. The database includes digitized type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials,
Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
An on-demand streaming video service providing access to multidisciplinary documentaries and films.

Macaulay Library
The Macaulay Library is a significant scientific archive of natural history audio, video, and photographs, including the largest publicly available digital collection of recorded animal sounds.
New York Public Library: Digital Collections
The New York Public Library's Digital Collections portal provides access to over 700,000 digital images, including photographs, taxonomic drawings, maps, and other resources related to environmental themes.

Smithsonian Panel on Climate Change & Species Extinction
Panelists, video, transcripts, articles, data, and more.
Study Shows Parasites may be Among Earliest Victims of Climate Change
A new study shows that parasites are facing major extinctions
Study Determines Microscopic Water Bears Will be Earth's Last Survivors
The world’s most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun dies, according to a new Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Oxford University collaboration.