Academic Video Online (AVON)

Academic Video Online (AVON) is a collection of over 80,000 streaming videos in a wide variety of academic areas, including anthropology, art & design; business; criminal justice; diversity studies; education; gender & sexuality studies; health sciences; history; literature & language; music, dance, theatre, & performing arts; psychology & counseling; science & engineering; social sciences; and more. The collection includes videos from over 1,500 leading distributors, producers, and filmmakers, such as 60 Minutes /CBS, PBS, BBC, NBC, Intelecom, Insight Media, Microtraining, Filmakers Library, Envision, Inc., Stanley Milgram, Dallas Telecourses, and Davidson Films.

A searchable transcript accompanies each video. Index terms are assigned to each video to aid in searching. The Alexander Street video platform offers the ability to create playlists, create video clips, permalink to videos, and embed videos in course management systems.

Academic Video Online is a subscription collection, and new titles are regularly added. On a semiannual basis, a small number of titles are removed from the collection due to Alexander Street’s changing agreements with film distributors.