Video & Images - ENG102 - First-Year Composition - LibGuides at Paradise Valley Community College

Videos and images can also serve as useful sources of information, especially for visual learners or when studying visual subjects. They can be found on platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, and various image databases.

Streaming Video

The PVCC Library Streaming Video Collection
provides instant access to educational videos, documentaries, and movies.
Titles from these collections can be shown in the classroom, embedded within a course, viewed at home, or on the go. All streaming videos in the Library's media collection are purchased or licensed content. PVCC MEID & password required for access.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Watch over 30000 Documentaries, Classic, and Indie Films. Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service that provides access to over 30,000 Documentaries, Classic and Indie Films from 800 top producers such as Criterion Collection, New Day Films, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, First Run Features, Media Education Foundation, and The Great Courses.
Films On Demand (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
Over 42,000 academic-level educational streaming videos covering most subject areas.
Swank Digital Campus (Swank) This link opens in a new window
NOTE: Works best with Chrome
Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with the largest academic streaming collection of its kind. With over 25,000 films, documentaries and TV shows, Swank Digital Campus simplifies film distribution by providing faculty and students a legal streaming resource both on and off campus.

Images

Use the PVCC Library image databases to get authentic images with citations.

Images, like other documents, can be scholarly or not. Here is what makes an image scholarly:

you know where the image comes from
you know who owns it
you know it’s original

ARTstor Collections (ITHAKA) This link opens in a new window
Artstor provides faculty and students with a complete image resource in a wide array of subjects with the breadth and depth to add context and examine influences beyond the confines of your discipline. With approximately 300 collections composed of over 2.5 million images (and growing), scholars can examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use resource.See collections - https://www.artstor.org/collections/

EBSCOHost Images
Multidisciplinary Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Google Image Search
Though Google Image Search is the easiest way to find a broad group of images, it’s also the riskiest. The images that people use on commercial websites or blogs are frequently altered, have no clear ownership, or are of poor quality. It’s often impossible to know if they’re legitimate or who you can go to for permissions.