Academic Video Online (AVON) is a multidisciplinary streaming video service from Alexander Street Press. Featured partners include the BBC, PBS, Bloomberg, and Videofashion, among others. Some of the types of content types are documentaries, newsreels, instructional films, and interviews. All of the usual ASP features are available: the ability to make clips and embed content, view simultaneous transcripts, send to mobile, and cross-search with several ASP products. NOTE:  Effective January 1, 2021 AVON video access is mediated. This means that any video not licensed for use prior to that date will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.

Many of the resources listed in this guide come from the publisher Alexander Street Press. Search across multiple audio and video collections from Alexander Street Press:  American History in Video; Audio Drama; Classical Music in Video; Classical Scores Library; Counseling & Therapy in Video; Dance in Video; Ethnographic Video Online; New World Cinema; Opera in Video; Smithsonian Global Sound; and Theatre in Video.

See the publisher's video tutorials on Using the Video Player, Making Video Clips, Using the Audio Player, Creating a Playlist, and Searching the Collections.

Title card, Santa Claus vs. Cupid. Thomas A. Edison, Inc. 1915. Source: Academic Video Online database.