The Library is please to announce a year-long trial on Alexander Street Press VAST: Academic Video Online, a multi-disciplinary video collection.
Alexander Street’s flagship video subscription, covering a wide range of subject areas. VAST is growing to more than 20,000 full video titles (not just clips) in 2013 and currently offers well over 9,000 hours of content.
VAST includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. You’ll find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy® and Emmy® winners, the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, newly released films, and archival material previously unavailable.
Here are some quick facts about VAST:
- Our undergraduate multidisciplinary video collection, with video across many subject areas
- 17,000+ titles are in VAST today
- 5,000 videos are added annually (400+ per month)
- VAST will contain 20,000+ titles by end of 2013
- VAST has some overlap with about two dozen of our individual discipline-specific collections
- VAST also includes videos that are not in any individual collections — 25% of the content inVAST is available only in VAST
Submit your feedback via the form linked from the resource page, or directly to Teresa Lee, e-Resources and Access Librarian, at Teresa.lee@ubc.ca.
The trial runs until July 31, 2014.