We will be at the Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) conference in Austin on March 17-19. Meet up with our Sales + Marketing manager Elena Wayne at the vendor's reception (we'll be near the bar!), mention the ER+L special, and collect a one-year streaming token! You can exchange that token for any title in the Docuseek2 collection.
Wait — it get's better!
Follow us on Twitter at docuseek2, and watch for tweets (#whereselena) during the conference for other locations where Elena will be — introduce yourself, mention the ER+L special, and receive another one-year token! We'll tweet five locations in total — say hi to her at all of the locations, and get a bonus token (count 'em up — that's six tokens). What a deal! Tip: Look for the hat!
If you aren't going to the conference, but your colleagues are, let them know about the special so they can collect your tokens for you. Woo-hoo!
Docuseek2 has clips!
You can make clips on Docuseek2! Clips provide an easy way to focus your students' attention on key parts of a film. Docuseek2 supports logical clips — you specify start and stop timecodes in a film which define the clip. The clip is assigned a permanent link which can be added to a course page. You can share your clips with others at your institutions, or with all Docuseek2 users. You can also tag the clip to help others discover the clips.
For help using the clip-making tool, check out our YouTube tutorial, or read about it on the Docuseek2 help wiki.
We have added two more thematic collections since our last newsletter.
The African American Studies Collection contains twelve films that explore the broad experience of African-Americans. The collection includes two winners of the American Historical Association's John E. O'Connor Film Award, The Intolerable Burden, about a black family's commitment to a quality education, through segregation, desegregation, and resegregation; and The Loving Story, the definitive account of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage.
The Women's Studies Collection includes 49 titles covering the breadth and depth of women's experiences around the world. The Women's Studies Collection brings together an international selection of films that present the stories of women on every continent: from the experience of single mothers in Korea; to teenage girls in prison in the U.S. staging a musical; to films exploring women's relationship to their bodies; domestic violence, crimes of honor, bride kidnapping, and sex trafficking; the makeover industry; mail order brides; women and Islam; girls and guns; philosophers, artists, filmmakers and scientists; women organizing and taking charge of their lives — and more!
Other recently added collections include The Anthropology Collection, our Philosophers and Ideas collection, and The Sustainability Collection. The Sustainability Collection includes over 60 titles from leading distributors in the independent and social issue documentary world, including Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, and Icarus Films. As with all of our titles, Docuseek2 is the exclusive academic streaming source for these films.
As of this writing there are over 450 titles in the Docuseek2 collection. Here are the top ten most watched films (by time viewed) for the first two months of 2014:
Did you know you can customize the Docuseek2 interface for your users? We create a special login for your institution to share with your users which gives them access to the Docuseek2 interface without having to register or log in. This institutional user can land at a modified Docuseek2 home page, or land on a modified Advanced Search. We can further modify the landing page with a return link to your library page, and, coming soon, add your institution's logo to each page on the site.
If you use EZproxy for your proxy server, see the Recommendations and Requirements page on the help wiki for a sample EZproxy stanza to use with the Docuseek2 interface.
Register at http://docuseek2.com to view pricing for your institution.
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Docuseek2 streams over 450 of the best in documentary and social issue media to colleges and universities. Licenses are available for single titles or collections for periods ranging from one week to three years. Interested in a trial for your campus? Contact Elena Wayne, Sales and Marketing Manager at ewayne@docuseek2.com
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