Towson students have access to a variety of audio-visual materials. Analogue sound and video recordings are listed in the catalog, and must be requested in-person at the research help desk. Many of the streaming services Towson subscribes to are listed below. These services provide access to World Music, Jazz, Classical, and Popular musics often with detailed information about the materials.
These streaming databases often require FlashPlayer to be installed on your computer.
Academic Video Online: Premium includes over 65,000 videos every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
Kanopy is a film streaming service, offering over 12,000 streaming films from over 30 suppliers, with new films added daily. This database includes films from the Criterion Collection, PBS, Psychotherapy.net, New Day Films, and many others.
Digital Campus, from Swank Motion Pictures, allows you to legally stream theatrical motion pictures for educational purposes. The films available on the Digital Campus home page have been requested by TU faculty and licensed by the library for a single year. Please note that you must use the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Safari, Google Chrome, or Firefox to stream content from Digital Campus. Microsoft Edge or Safari is the preferred browser for the best experience.
The largest online collection of classical music, operas, and ballets in the world, this database offers access to the best of classical music with over 1,800 programs (3,000 original works), including concerts and archived historical concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, artist portraits and educational programs, and master classes. See Terms and Conditions
